The maimed face of 18-year-old Aisha, her nose and ears cut off as punishment by her Afghan husband for fleeing his home, made the cover of Time magazine last week and changed the debate over the country’s military involvement in Afghanistan. Hitting stands just as a growing chorus of pundits and lawmakers had begun to Read More
File this week’s Time cover under: things that are very important for us to know about our world that also make us squirm in our seat. (We’re reminded this morning of The New York Times article earlier this month about heroin addicts who inject themselves with one another’s blood to stave off withdrawal Read More
Before any of his guests arrived, Time editor Rick Stengel rotated between the dozens of reporters waiting along the red carpet outside the Time Warner Building’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, the scene of the Time 100 gala Tuesday night.
“Here you have in the same room presidents and poets and philosophers and artists and athletes Read More
It’s a small victory for Time Warner, but not insignificant: Time Inc.’s ad revenue and subscription income actually increased in the first three months of 2010, reports Peter Kafka.
Meanwhile, Time Inc.’s operating income improved dramatically to $50 million; a year ago the unit posted a $32 million loss. Chalk that up to the Read More
It’s springtime, media New Yorkers! The trees are blossoming, the sidewalks are filling up with cafe tables and if you stake out just the right corner, you might spot the N.Y.U. track team racing shirtless up Broadway. (It’s not just what’s outside, either!) After what’s been an endless year for the city’s ink-stained wretches, there’s Read More
Some of the magazine industry’s biggest names are on the verge of forming a new company that would allow them to take the digital future into their own hands.
The company would make up one of the biggest alliances among rival publishers ever formed in print media, with Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst Read More
Rick Stengel on Monday afternoon: "When I became editor of Time, one of the things I said was ‘I don’t want to put question marks on the cover. I want to have a point of view.’"
Time’s cover line, published today: "Does Temperament Matter?"
To reach Babak Dehghanpisheh, Newsweek‘s Baghdad Bureau Chief, you have to dial an twelve-digit number (that’s minus a series of zeros that you sometimes need to dial first) which rings him on his satellite phone in the house the magazine shares with two other media organizations inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone.
Mr. Dehghanpisheh, who’s Read More
In the wake of 100+ job cuts at Newsweek, the Journal‘s Rebecca Dana parachutes down into the Newsweek and Time buildings to find out what’s happening. Jon Meacham tells her that being an editor these days is very much like being a manager of a company who has to move bodies and "control costs." Read More
So that Times story about John McCain, the one the world heard about in December, was published last night.
In a nutshell:
Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. Read More
