This morning Keith Kelly drilled down into Audit Bureau of Circulation numbers for the celebrity weeklies from the first half of the year. People is still the country’s widest-circulating weekly by a nose (32,000 copies), and In Touch has been making serious gains on second-place Us Weekly. The title was regularly moving well over Read More
When we talked to Daily News staffers on Tuesday — after editor-in-chief Martin Dunn announced his resignation and Mort Zuckerman named his replacement, the Boston Herald‘s Kevin Convey — we heard that staffers were optimistic about the new leadership. Mr. Convey is passionate about reporting and the tabloid craft in a big city, they Read More
From Keith Kelly’s account of payment disputes at Louise Bouin Media, publisher of Modern Painters and ArtInfo:
The disgruntled freelancers from artinfo have banded together to form an ad hoc group that they’ve dubbed WAAANKAA — which stands for Writers Angry At Artinfo Not Kidding Around Anymore.
The group claims to have several Read More
It looks like Conde Nast’s anti-fraud tip line is paying off, reports the Post‘s Keith Kelly. Since the program was implemented earlier this month, the company has busted several staffers:
According to inside buzz, one Wired staffer was let go after taking stuff from the magazine’s pop-up store, which was set Read More
Having scored his new magazine a sit-down with President Obama after only a couple of months on the job, new BusinessWeek editor—and Observer insurgent—Josh Tyrangiel went along with his reporters to the White House.
“Being in the Oval Office is one of the most surreal experiences of your life,” Mr. Tyrangiel said this Read More
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
