Newsday editor in chief Debby Krenek announced to her staff today in a memo that the paper will be expanding! Ms. Krenek plans to hire 37 employees — 34 journalists and three staffers to help the editorial board. Her goal is to add 2,600 pages to the paper in the next year and fill them Read More
Last May, as dot-com mania was blooming, Dave Kansas, the editor of TheStreet.com, became a rich guy when the financial news site went public. At the end of first day of trading, he owned $9 million worth of stock in the fledgling venture and had options to buy another $4.5 million worth for just $2,300. Read More
Daily News editor Debby Krenek stood in the newsroom on the evening of March 23 and told her glum staff that the paper’s owner, Mortimer Zuckerman, had been lying to the press about her imminent departure from her job. “Contrary to what you may have heard, I did not resign in November,” she said. She Read More
The editors at Gear , the magazine founded by Bob Guccione Jr. after he sold Spin , have decided they don’t need all those expensive contract writers, so they’ve ditched a bunch of them. The one-year-old bimonthly, which on its current “Sex Issue” cover describes itself as “the shagadelic magazine for men,” is about to Read More
The New York Daily News has never been a hotbed of worker contentment, but when editor in chief Debby Krenek took over the paper last year, the tabloid’s reporters held out hope that the affable Texan would bridge the chasm between management and a chronically disaffected newsroom. As they saw it, part of her mission Read More
