Marc Ambinder needed a break. He’d been productive, having written a book about the Joint Special Operations Command and broken new ground in his reporting on the death of Osama bin Laden, as well as covering the Obama era for The Atlantic. Not to mention serving as National Journal’s White House correspondent. That was his Read More
When Mel Kamarzin sat down with Google founders Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin and CEO Larry Page to talk about the advertising business in 2003, he explained that to keep the art of advertising alive and well it was important that advertisers not know the exact returns on their investments.
The formula for print success, apparently: be a blog for people who don’t read blogs.
The Week, despite inauspicious beginnings (“Is [owner] Felix Dennis Mad?” demanded The Wall Street Journal), is proving a winner. It’s financially solid, and readers actually read it: They spend an average of 67 seconds on each page. Read More
It hardly seems like a year ago, but remember last September? Just after Lehman declared bankruptcy, we dealt with a rapid wave of media closures here in the city: The Sun, 02138 and, for a third time, Radar.
But we didn’t expect that it would take long for Maer Roshan, Radar’s editor, to get Read More
Felix Dennis, the billionaire publisher of Maxim who was the first person to say the word “cunt” on live British television, cut right to the chase last night at the Columbia Journalism School.
“Let’s get the murder thing out of the way,” he said in his refined British accent, alluding to his outrageous, and subsequently Read More
The building that houses Maxim and The Week magazines was sold today for $170 million, The Observer reports on our Real Estate blog.
