Joanne Lipman’s Best Portfolio DecisionNaming the magazine ‘Portfolio’ to begin with. Pretty much every other decision, according to the ‘Observer,’ was somewhere south of that.
NPR, Hachette Cut BackToday in media metamorphoses: The caterpillar becomes … a caterpillar with fewer legs.
ByKathryn H. Cusimano
Auto-Tuning the News: Now With Katie CouricThese two YouTube clips do not answer the important, fundamental media questions they raise. But it’s still funny watching K.Co sing.
ByVanita Salisbury
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Peter Kaplan’s Ultimate SacrificeAccording to ‘WWD,’ it was pay cuts that eventually forced ‘Observer’ editor Peter Kaplan to leave.
The New York Times Could Always Just Start a LiveJournalThe ‘Times’ today had three stories about the media’s epic struggle to stay afloat. Way to be self-referential, ‘Times’! And they say newspapers are having trouble adjusting to the Internet.
Max Frankel: CassandraA new ‘Vanity Fair’ profile tells us how the former editor of the New York ‘Times’ was making canny predictions about how the Internet would change the company. Too bad nobody listened.