“At the same time, the fees it pays contributors — $100 to $300 per article, according to people familiar with its rates — are considered either a princely sum or meager commission, contingent on the observer’s age and station in the editorial world. ‘I can’t believe they’re paying people so much,’ one web publisher said Read More
Dan Abrams wants in on the media blogging and aggregation business.
For the past several months, Mr. Abrams—the chief legal analyst for NBC News and head of the nascent media strategy firm Abrams Research—has been meeting with various New York-based media reporters, editors, and bloggers about the potential editorial venture.
To date, nobody has signed Read More
This week in the Off the Record column The Observer published an item on how Advertising Age is reducing its publication schedule down to 43 or 44 issues this year. In the item, Advertising Age editor Jonah Bloom told us that the trade magazine did this in order to avoid laying off any staff.
“We’ll Read More
The weekly trade magazine Advertising Age—like all the rest of us!—is having a little trouble with, well, advertising.
But the magazine is doing something not everyone is doing: cutting down the number of issues it prints per year from a 2006 high of 50 down to 43 or 44.
At many publications, this Read More
