Hearst Shifts Continue as Harper’s Bazaar Editor Steps Down
New York Times: Glenda Bailey, the editor in chief of fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar, will step down at the end of February. Her departure follows a number of other notable changes at parent Hearst, and signals an almost complete shift from the old...
Dennis Publishing to Launch The Week Junior for Kids in US
What's New in Publishing: Dennis Publishing, the company behind the weekly news magazine The Week, announced it will be launching a weekly news magazine for children — The Week Junior, following its success in the United...
McClatchy Misses Payments as Talks with Creditors Continue
Wall Street Journal: McClatchy skipped a $12 million debt-interest payment due Wednesday as it continues to negotiate with creditors to avoid a bankruptcy-court proceeding. The publisher now has 30 days to work out a...
Axel Springer’s Insider CEO Talks Ambitious Growth Targets
Poynter: Henry Blodget, co-founder and CEO of Business Insider/Insider Inc., summoned his staff last Thursday for a start-of-the-new decade meeting and laid on them three heavy growth targets for the next five years, including a million paid...
The Atlantic Unveils Fiction Section with More Short Stories
MediaPost: The Atlantic’s new fiction section will publish short stories "with far greater frequency than we’ve managed in the past decade,” executive editor Adrienne LaFrance wrote in an introduction to the section. It debuted with “Birdie,” a new short story by...
Qwoted Chief Sees No Conflicts in Owning Talking Biz News
PR Week: In response to a Yahoo Finance story scrutinizing its practices, PR platform Qwoted said it has no conflicts of interest in owning the journalism website Talking Biz News and noted that it is not misusing reporters’ data. "It’s really a PR...
ViacomCBS Eyes NBCUniversal Exec as Possible CBS Chief
Wall Street Journal: George Cheeks, a top exec at Comcast’s NBCUniversal, is headed to ViacomCBS in a senior role at CBS, where he could ultimately succeed Joe Ianniello as head of the network. Cheeks resigned from the Comcast company on...
Disney’s Streaming Service Becomes Most Downloaded App
TechCrunch: U.S. consumers have shown strong interest in Disney’s new family-friendly streaming service. Following the app’s mid-November launch, Disney+ was downloaded more than 30 million times — that’s more than double its next nearest competitor,...
Fox News Streaming Service Tinkers with Content Strategy
Bloomberg: Since its early days, Fox News’s streaming service has featured a steady diet of conservative politics. Now, more than a year after launching, company execs are trying to broaden the audience, testing additional genres — from outdoor activities to...
AT&T, Comcast News Channels Compete for Shepard Smith
Hollywood Reporter: CNN and MSNBC are shaping up to be the two likeliest landing spots for former Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, who unexpectedly left the network in October and has been on the cable news sidelines ever since as he waits out a...
Fox-News Corp Climate Coverage Gets Bashed by Murdoch
Daily Beast: In a long-simmering rift between factions of the Murdoch family over climate change, Rupert’s younger son, James, and his activist wife, Kathryn, are attacking the climate denialism promoted by News Corp. and the Fox News...
iHeartMedia Radio Hit with Layoffs Across US in ‘Bloodbath’
Billboard: The world's biggest broadcast company, iHeartMedia, on Tuesday laid off dozens of employees, including veteran DJs and program directors in top U.S. cities. "It's been a bloodbath across the whole country," says one who lost a job Tuesday...
Google to Limit Cookies for Tracking Users Across Internet
NBC News: Google has announced plans to limit the ability of other companies to track people across the internet and collect information about them, a significant change that has widespread ramifications for online privacy as well as the digital...
Twitter CEO Answers Questions About Twitter from Twitter
Wired: Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey uses the power of his own website to answer frequently asked questions about one of the world's most popular social media platforms. Is the Twitter bird's name really Larry? How can you identify a Twitter...
Pinterest Surpasses Snap as Third-Largest in Social Media
Bloomberg: Pinterest shares rose as much as 13% on Tuesday after a report showed it beat out Snap’s Snapchat to become the third-biggest social media platform in the U.S. Pinterest had an estimated 82.4 million U.S. users in 2019, a 7.4% gain from the previous...
WME Adds TikTok Creators to Roster of Social Media Stars
Business Insider: Creators on TikTok are surging in the influencer space, having captured the attention of Gen Zers worldwide, and now looking to build lucrative businesses around their massive audiences. And talent agency William Morris Endeavor wants a piece of the...
Hearst Accused of Surveilling Workers During Union Fight
New York Post: The fight pitting Hearst Magazines President Troy Young against the editorial union is getting nastier, with the Writers Guild of America, East now accusing the company of illegal surveillance and pressuring employees to withdraw their union...
Conde Nast Snubs Big Stars in Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue
Showbiz411: Vanity Fair’s 2020 Oscar issue goes for something different than usual: it’s the anti-Oscar issue. Instead of nominees and big stars, they went mostly for outliers and young people. On the main cover there’s one Oscar nominee: Renee...
Meredith Unveils Rachael Ray Quarterly in Magazine Redo
MediaPost: A new premium quarterly from Rachael Ray hits newsstands this week. Rachael Ray In Season, available nationwide, reimagines Ray’s long-running publication Rachael Ray Every Day as a high-quality, collectible magazine with upgraded paper and...
Guardian Media Hires Macmillan Veteran as New Chief Exec
Press Gazette: Guardian Media Group, publisher of the Guardian and Observer newspapers, has named Annette Thomas as its new CEO. Thomas replaces David Pemsel who left last year. Thomas has spent 25 years in global publishing and data...
New York Times Trumpets Big Numbers in Digital Revenue
TheStreet: The New York Times reported that in 2019 it added more than 1 million net digital subscriptions and doubled its annual digital revenue a year ahead of schedule. The Times said that last year digital revenue exceeded $800 million. In 2015, the figure was...
Philadelphia Inquirer Names New Yorker Alum as Publisher
Philadelphia Inquirer: The Philadelphia Inquirer announced Tuesday that its CEO, publisher Terrance C.Z. Egger, will retire and be replaced next month by Lisa Hughes, a member of the company’s board of directors, who will become the Inquirer’s first female...
The Economist Turns to Atlantic Veteran for New President
Adweek: Bob Cohn, formerly the president of The Atlantic, has been named as president/managing director for The Economist to oversee the print business, including expanding its subscription and digital offerings. “I am thrilled to join the amazing team at The...
Fortune to Erect Paywall in Redesign of Website, Magazine
New York Post: Fortune is going to go behind a paywall next month as part of a sweeping redesign of the magazine and website. The overhaul will also see the print magazine cut back to 10 times a year — and drop photos of business leaders from the...
Amazon, Google ‘More Trusted’ by Americans Than Media
Daily Mail: Amazon and Google are deemed to be more trustworthy than "America's most trusted man," according to a new report. Market researcher Morning Consult has revealed the most trusted brands in the US, with tech giants beating well-known actor Tom Hanks....
Netflix’s 2020 Oscar Nods Face Snubs from Theater Chains
Los Angeles Times: After Netflix received 24 Oscar nominations on Monday — the most of any studio and the highest number to date for the streaming giant — both AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas said that they wouldn’t screen its...
Disney’s Hulu at Work to Reinvent Ad Model for Streaming
Ad Age: Hulu is taking steps to protect its stronghold in the marketplace by investing in an ambitious goal: reinventing the ad model for streaming. If streaming really does upend the $70 billion TV market, Hulu wants to be in position to take a controlling...
Fox Seeks Black Viewers for New Streamer Called Fox Soul
Los Angeles Times: Fox is going back to its roots with the company’s first advertiser-supported streaming video service. The television stations division of the Rupert Murdoch family-controlled media company is launching a free over-the-top...
AT&T’s Warner Bros Stirs Anger with New Manhattan Store
Crain's New York Business: A new Harry Potter flagship store in the Flatiron District will host the world's largest collection of products from the wizarding world under one roof — assuming it can cast a charm over the city's Landmark Preservation...
Liberty Media CEO Eyes Moves to Dominate Music Industry
Billboard: In 2020, CEO Greg Maffei is poised to steer Liberty Media into far greater influence in the music business. In a speech in November, Maffei made a case for audio — not video — as “a more attractive space where we are spending our...