paidContent: Mags To Their Digital Units: Drop Dead
Monday, 1 March 2010, 08:47
Rafat Ali: "Five of the leading [US magazine] publishers—Time Inc., Hearst, Condé Nast, Wenner Media and Meredith—have banded together for this “power of print” campaign… One ad says: 'The Internet is fleeting. Magazines are immersive.' … Really? This is the message you want to send your own digital units?"
paidContent: Magazine Consortium Will Launch With Five Partners: News Corp, Hearst, Time, Conde, Meredith
Sunday, 6 December 2009, 11:58
"News Corp joining Conde Nast, Meredith, Hearst and Time Inc. … Each is investing in the new company, which plans to create a new digital newsstand, and each will have two members on the board."
New York Times: Group of Publishers Is Said to Be Building a Newsstand Online
Thursday, 26 November 2009, 07:44
"The formation of a new company to run the online newsstand — sometimes characterized as an 'iTunes for magazines' — may be announced in early December. Time, Condé Nast, Hearst and Meredith all intend to be equity partners in the new company, although the deals have not yet been signed."
Beet.TV: Long form journalism on the Web is “not working,” TIME.com Managing Editor
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 08:31
"[Time.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel] says that a a lot of the magazine content published on the Web site does not do 'too great' online. Some of it is 'just too long,' he says."
The Atlantic: The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 19:29
"The Economist prides itself on cleverly distilling the world into a reasonably compact survey. Another word for this is blogging, or at least what blogging might be after it matures—meaning, after it transcends its current status as a free-fire zone and settles into a more comprehensive system of gathering and presenting information. As a result, although its self-marketing subtly sells a kind of sleek, mid-last-century Concorde-flying sangfroid, The Economist has reached its current level of influence and importance because it is, in every sense of the word, a true global digest for an age when the amount of undigested, undigestible information online continues to metastasize. And that’s a very good place to be in 2009. … Tellingly, the very lo-fi digest The Week, which has copped The Economist’s attitude without any real reporting or analysis at all, is thriving as well."
Silicon Alley insider: Time Inc. To Start Charging For Online Content
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 07:23
"Because there's too much ad inventory on the Internet, Time Inc. publications including SI.com, Time.com, CNNMoney.com and EW.com will experiment with mixing paid and free content in the next 8 months, EVP John Squires told reporters gathered today at the company's NYC headquarters."
Jon Slattery: Black day in British newspaper history
Friday, 28 November 2008, 09:01
"I covered the newspaper industry for 23 years at Press Gazette and in all that time I don't remember anything remotely as bad as this."
Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 10:01
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"Time magazine will fight an Indonesian Supreme Court libel ruling in favour of former President Suharto which ordered the U.S. weekly to pay more than $100 million in damages and print apologies, Time’s lawyer said on Tuesday."
Tuesday, 10 July 2007, 18:03
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"Blogs are a good case where ‘time spent’ is more meaningful than page views. Especially since the blogosphere is particularly prone to the ‘quantity over quality’ problem. It’s easy to pump out 20+ posts a day – and that tactic garners a lot of page view
Saturday, 12 May 2007, 16:50
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Richard Norton Taylor: "The Guardian, Time, BBC, and Index on Censorship, will appeal against these orders next week."
