In this week’s paper, John Koblin considers the state of journalism in New Jersey. The dailies are limping along, but with layoffs all around and no more Times bureau, the state’s media microcosm isn’t what it used to be:
“I think that New Jersey is in the precarious danger of not being Read More
One year ago, the Newhouses were threatening to close down their treasured jewel, The Star-Ledger, unless the paper’s union made a series of concessions, which included cutting the newsroom by 40 percent.
They got what they wanted, and it seemed like things could go back to normal, albeit with fewer deckhands on the ship. Read More
Portfolio.com will return.
Hours after we reported it first, Condé Nast announced this morning that it has transferred full control of Portfolio.com to its sister publisher, the American City Business Journals. The Charlotte-based ACBJ, which runs all the bizjournal.com Web sites, will assume full power both editorially and on the business side Read More
In September, New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. embraced self-sacrifice. He and company vice chairman Michael Golden would renounce stock compensation this year and the next, he announced in a staff memo, with the savings (some $4 million, by Mr. Sulzberger’s estimate) to go into a pool for employee bonuses.
Was it a Read More
1166 Sixth Avenue
Certainly, we’ve never been overly concerned with Condé Nast real estate dealings. Ahem.
Well, last November it was reported that the company’s parent, Advance Publications, had leased 120,000 square feet at 1166 Sixth Avenue.
Now, Gawker offers a company memo that sheds light on the new Read More
