Writer Tony Horowitz explains that having a digital longform story top Amazon bestseller charts sounds better than it is, especially because, as we all now know, Byliner wasn’t exactly the most functional company. “I’m wary of this brave new world of digital publishers and readers.” At least old-fashioned books can’t disappear, no matter how you many copies you sell. (The New York Times)
Letizia Ortiz, Spain’s new regular-person-turned Queen used to be a journalist. So, there’s hope for us all. (Fox News Latino)
Ladies Homes Journal ends a 131-year run with next week’s issue. (New York Post)
The Daily News is raising its newsstand price to $1.25. (Capital New York)
Gallup finds that Americans faith in media is at a record low. “This continues a decades-long decline in the share of Americans saying they have ‘a great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence in newspapers or TV news, while trust in Internet news remains low since the one prior measure in 1999.” (Politico)
