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more about #printisdead more comments → Uncle_Billy_Slumming: [gawker.com] more » SpyMagician: Who ever bought an issue of Heeb? Between Heeb, Jewcy & Jewlicious the only thing I could figure out differentiated them were what "witty" t-shirts a... more » Lux Alptraum: If they go under, how will I bribe, uh, certain people by promising to get them into the Heeb 100???? more » Ogiri W Surie: I worry for sister publication "Intifada Beat" more » kappakappaspankme: Maybe I'm just a tight-assed prig but I couldn't stomach the thought of buying another issue of Heeb after the Roseanne photo spread. There's Mel Bro... more » nirreskeya: "I heard he was up on the roof last night signaling with a flashlight. And what's that tune he's always whistling..." more » Perhaps Not: "Are you boys cooking up there?" "No." "Are you making an interocetor?" "No!" more » DavidWatts: The money for Billboard is in the charts, not the publication, if I understand it correctly. Perhaps he'll quit publishing the mag and turn it into a... more » BadUncle: The mystery of why he was dumped from running the family business is now solved. more » LeeroySpitzer: DIS GUY. more » atlasfugged: I'm probably wrong, but I blame Fred Hiatt for this. more » DennyCrane: Somehow this felt appropriate. more » bess marvin, girl detective: attempting to do more with less. david simon is in a bawlmoor bar somewhere cackling. more » JennaW: They aren't? Well, they used to be! Great work, Marcus Brauchli! In just one year you've turned the Washington Post into a local paper. Ben Bradlee mu... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Sadz. more » -
#printisdead
Is Heeb Magazine Folding?
A tipster informs us that Heeb—the favorite rag of Holocaust-mocking hipster Jews everywhere—is going kaput. Details? Email us. Update: A Heeb staffer emails that they haven't heard anything; the honchos we asked for comment still haven't replied. -
#daddyissues
What Is Lachlan Murdoch Building in There?
Is Lachlan Murdoch gearing up for an Oedipal struggle with the media-titan father who cut him out of the family business and exiled him to Australia? And if not, then why on earth is he buying the Hollywood Reporter? More » -
#printisdead
Ousted Forbes Employees Rumored To Be Shopping a Tell-All
Tipsters never rest! Today a source says that editors axed in brutal cuts at Forbes are rumored to be shopping a book about the Forbes brothers and a feud between them about the company's direction. More » -
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Marcus Brauchli —
executive editor of the Washington Post explaining the newspaper's decision to close its remaining U.S. bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, to the Washington Post. -
#mediacrack
Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
In your trepidatious Tuesday media column: we hear the Time Inc. layoffs hit Fortune (and others?) today, BusinessWeek speaks robot language, Dave Eggers will not stop saving print, and a horrible massacre of journalists in the Philippines. More » -
#printisdead
Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
Circulation rates going up! That's great! Print's dying and someone's succeeding! THANK GOD. Except, not. While circulations go up, fewer people are getting newspapers circulated to them. How? More » -
#printisdead
The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
Newspapers are dying, which means there will never be any more investigative journalism and politicians will screw whomever they want. But it's OK, because "innovative" new "partnerships" like the Chicago News Cooperative are here to produce real journalism. More » -
#dosanddonts
The Vice Guide to Creating a Successful Publishing Empire
Perhaps you've seen this chart from the Awl, which shows via colorful line graphs exactly how screwed the magazine industry is. (Very screwed.) However, one magazine seems to be weathering the storm quite well. Vice. What's their dirty little secret? More » -
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#printisdead
Condé Nast Is the Latest to Convert in Apple's Secret Tablet Faith
Condé Nast says it is already racing to repackage its magazines for Apple's forthcoming tablet, starting with Wired, even while toeing Apple's line that the device doesn't exist. Publishers are clearly betting Steve Jobs can save their business model. More » -
#commenters
Tattle-Tale Newspaper Costs Vulgar Commenter His Job
A St. Louis schools employee made a juvenile, vulgar joke in the comments section of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website, anonymously. Soon, he was out of a job because an offended newspaper editor hunted him down and called his bosses. More » -
#printisdead
Reality Check: 80% Won't Pay for Online Content (And the Other 20% Are Probably Lying)
Forrester Research has a new study out that Rupert Murdoch should probably download: Of 4,000 people polled, 80 percent will not pay for online newspapers or magazines, and the rest are divided on how they want to pay. More » -
#mediacrack
Moonie Newspaper Editor Shockingly Forced to Attend Moonie Wedding
In your well-regarded Tuesday media column: A Washington Times editor reaches his breaking point, the NY Daily News makes a bizarre investment, Lou Dobbs has a terrifying new career option, and magazines are now pointless. More » -
#insults
Rupert Murdoch: David Paterson Is a Hapless Blind Illiterate
At the Wall Street Journal CEO Council yesterday, someone asked Rupert Murdoch why our political discourse is so angry and infantile. Murdoch's answer was, "Because David Paterson is blind and can't read braille." (The correct answer is "Rupert Murdoch.") More » -
#printisdead
Newspaper Box Enlivened One Last Time
Artist Jason Eppink turns empty newspaper boxes into flashing little disco parties. "When the last vestiges of a collapsed empire litter the landscape, there's only one thing to do: throw a bumpin' party and dance on the ruins." [BoingBoing] -
#printisdead
Nation's Biggest Publisher of Gay Newspapers Closes
Ending its long slog toward death, Window Media, the company that publishes a number of gay newspapers throughout the country—including the country's oldest, the Washington Blade, in D.C.—has ceased publications of all their titles. More » -
#newspapers
Blogger behind "Kenneth in the (212)," is a NYT News Service union-busting/layoff victim, "strangely unbitter."
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#thefuture
Everything Bad About the Web Was Once Said About Television
This 1945 pamphlet on the "Future of Television" is awesome. But who would have thought we'd be having the same tired discussion 65 years later? The table of contents is a template for every contemporary new media debate: More » -
#mediawars
Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening to Leave Google
For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within "months." The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that's just its way of making search hugely profitable. More » -
#printisdead
Layoffs at Newsweek
Newsweek laid off "about a dozen" editorial staffers Wednesday. The weekly posted a 48 percent drop in revenue in the third quarter, resulting in a $4.3 million loss. Memo from editor Jon Meacham after the jump. More » -
#pullquote
Martin Scorsese —Â
explaining why he doesn't read newspapers at the book party for Harry Evans' My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times, to Daily Intel. (For what it's worth, he doesn't like computers or BlackBerrys either.)
