On Friday, xoJane published a most necessary confession. The women’s site that brings you the “It Happened To Me” first-person essay series (“It Happened To Me: There Are No Black People In My Yoga Classes And I’m Suddenly Feeling Uncomfortable With It,” “It Happened To Me: My Gynecologist Found a Ball of Cat Hair in…
Thanks to an apparent quirk in People magazine's online content management system, American supermarkets' classiest tabloid accidentally published an obituary for Kirk Douglas last night on their homepage—and long enough for plenty of people to notice.
The Newspaper Guild, a union that represents hundreds of editorial employees at Time Inc., says that contract negotiations with the company have broken down after the company stood firm on its demands for the right to outsource union jobs.
Fading magazine empire Time Inc. is currently trying to negotiate a new contract with the Newspaper Guild, a union that represents several hundred of the company's editorial employees. Time Inc. would like the right to eliminate most of their jobs.
Time Inc. has fallen on hard times. Would you believe that this once-proud magazine publishing empire is now explicitly rating its editorial employees based on how friendly their writing is to advertisers?
Time Inc. has begun selling ads on the cover of its magazines, "two weeks before Time Inc. begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a public company." The technical term for this is "desperation."
Time Inc. entered “a restructuring process” on Tuesday—which almost certainly means hundreds and hundreds of layoffs at the magazine conglomerate.
The new VP/ publisher of Sports Illustrated is Brendan Ripp—who happens to be the son of Joe Ripp, who is the CEO of Time Inc., the company that owns Sports Illustrated. Huh. Seems strange to see this sort of nepotism in the media world.
This week, Time Inc. announced that it will be closing down its three year-old Maghound service—billed at its launch as "The Netflix of magazines." Seemed like a decent idea at the time. Turned out not to be. The Netflix business model is not as flexible as previously suspected. In reality, a business plan that reads…
In your torpid Tuesday media column: Bill O'Reilly has another idiot book coming out, MSNBC is doing poorly, Salon.com relaunches, James Murdoch's flack quits, and speculation on Time Inc's next CEO.
In your threatening Tuesday media column: major layoffs at Gannett, Randy Michaels is back in radio, AOL eyes paid online content, rumors of OK! Magazine being sold, and Fortune poaches from the NYT.
In your trenchant Thursday media column: Glenn Beck apologizes for something, Slate in Palin Cunt scandal, AOL execs make way for Arianna, Yahoo grabs a Politico writer, and a Katie Couric career check-in.
In your chilly Tuesday media column: Michael Ware's rugged face will not return to CNN, the NYT's remarkable government-friendly duplicity, the Time Inc. executive shakeup continues, Men's Fitness's editor is out, Chicago mag ripped off, and a reporter's mysterious death.
In your finally Friday media column: New York Times reporters under fire, Jack Griffin unceremoniously canned at Time Inc., Joe Conason leaves the New York Observer, and executive moves at CBS News.
In your frosty Wednesday media column: Vice magazine's editor leaves, Seth Meyers to host the WHCA, Laura Ling gets a new job, Time Inc. gives stability for Christmas, Kathleen Parker's not going anywhere, and Andrew Ross Sorkin!
Martha Nelson is the new editorial director at Time Inc., the second-highest position in the company.
In your global Wednesday media column: strongman manager buys biz show, rumors of trouble at OK! Magazine, management shuffles at Time Inc, and press freedom threatened in South Africa and Venezuela.
Ann Moore is out as CEO of Time Inc., the New York Times' David Carr reports, and will be replaced by Meredith Corp. exec Jack Griffin, another traditional magazine executive.
In your merry Monday media column: Happy birthday to the Huffington Post, Time Inc's magical advertising salesmanship, working for Felix Dennis is always a party, and the biggest dope ever on television, revealed!
Click to viewApple has been trying to keep scantily-clad women out of the iPhone app store. It's a hypocritical crackdown, with apps from Playboy and Sports Illustrated given a free pass. And it's going to ruin the iPad for magazine content.
