Back in April, Esquire editor David Granger told the Observer he had no worries that the Internet would make magazines unnecessary, as, arguably, it has done with newspapers. But if magazines want to flourish in the Internet age they have to capitalize on the direct, textural experience they provide that the Internet can’t.
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So Victor Ganzi quit as CEO of Hearst yesterday, and with some shades of Jane Friedman’s departure from HarperCollins, no one really knows why.
In The Times, Richard Pérez-Peña writes that "Mr. Ganzi’s fall after six years came as a surprise to executives at Hearst and some of its major joint venture partners, Read More
Hearst has added yet one more building to its growing arsenal around Columbus Circle.
The publishing behemoth recently closed on 811 Ninth Avenue for $17.1 million, according to city records. Lightning quick would be appropriate terminology for how rapidly this deal went down: Hearst went to contract and closed on the 21,500-square-foot property on Read More
William Randolph Hearst was the Rupert Murdoch of his day. “He is,” President Teddy Roosevelt once wrote, “the most potent single influence for evil we have in our life.” Hearst inherited his father’s newspaper business and kept going: At his peak, he owned 28 major newspapers and 18 magazines, not to mention radio stations and Read More
“Every time someone’s like, ‘I saw you on TV!’, I think, ‘Nooo!’” said Atoosa Rubenstein, the editor in chief of Seventeen magazine, covering her eyes. “I feel like a D-list reality star.” It was the evening of Monday, Oct. 17, and she was standing at a club called AER in the meatpacking district, clutching a Read More
FORMER PUBLISHER SELLS HOUSE THAT’S SPLIT INTO TWO LAVISH PADS During a week of magazine foldings– Offspring on Jan. 3, George on Jan. 4–former Hearst Magazines president D. Claeys Bahrenburg folded his tent on East 94th Street. On Jan. 3, Mr. Bahrenburg, 53, who resigned as the chairman of Petersen Publications two years ago, put Read More
