For this week’s paper, Pub Crawl interviewed a number of publishing people who started their careers in magazines, and got them talking about what they expected when they got into books and what surprised them once they got there. One of the people we spoke to was Barbara Jones, the former deputy editor of Read More
Hyperion, Disney’s book-publishing arm, is bringing in Barbara Jones, deputy editor of the women’s magazine More, as executive editor. The hire comes just under a month after Hyperion lost its editor-in-chief, Will Schwalbe, who resigned after 11 years at the company to pursue internet-related projects.
As of this evening, CNBC is airing new “First on CNBC” commercials, touting the network’s scoop this afternoon on the sentencing of WorldCom chief Bernie Ebbers. But the spots are understating just how exclusive the breaking-news report was: CNBC’s initial live bulletin announced that Ebbers had been sentenced to 30 years in prison–five years more Read More
During the 2002 Year in Media, everyone took their hits. In April, The New York Times won a record seven Pulitzers-it even got Abe Rosenthal back in the newsroom for champagne-but by December, the paper plunged in the rough of Augusta. Details won a National Magazine Award, then published the wrong Kurt Andersen. The Wall Read More
