May 2012
17 posts
The unglamorous, punishing hours of working on a... →
“When a teacher can’t see why a student is stuck, or when an interface...”
– Seth Godin
“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the...”
– Aaron Sorkin
In the Office, They Strangle Ideas, Poison... →
“In the end, we’re here to sell magazines, and we hope it sells magazines.”
– Time design director D.W. Pine on, you know, that cover.
WHEN I ASSIGN MYSELF A FEATURE
editorrealtalk:
“We are living through perhaps the most exciting period in the internet’s...”
– Kernel
Paula Froelich: @CNN salaries by the numbers -... →
paulafroelich:
Anderson Cooper- all in, $11 million, but with roughly $4mill coming from CNN
number of viewers: 522,000 TOTAL viewers
avg cost per viewer that CNN is paying: $21
Piers Morgan - $4 million
number of viewers: total viewers 567,000
avg cost per viewer: $7
Wolf Blitzer - $3…
Adweek:
70 percent of The Economist’s digital subscribers are not former print subscribers and that 20 percent of The Economist’s single copy sales are of back issues—evidence that digital platforms are expanding rather than cannibalizing the reader base.
…because, like, hellooooo i’m Gen Y and I’m not going to buy any text-heavy publication that’s going to leave ink on...
A/B Testing: Why is an FT Subscription So... →
WHEN I FIND OUT A WRITER ISN'T ON TWITTER
editorrealtalk:
oh, it just got real.
“You have to be in control of your destiny. You can’t work for anyone else. ...”
– Sumner Redstone, being Sumner Redstone
“A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull;...”
– E. B. White on the social responsibility of the writer, a worthy aspiration to remember and live up to in today’s media climate increasingly plagued by negativism, sensationalism, and journalistic laziness. (via explore-blog)
April 2012
29 posts
“We need a tech industry that values history, perspective, and a long-term view....”
– Anil Dash
“An artist doesn’t burn out with age because he works too much. Working hones his...”
– William Friedkin
My father's fashion tips →
“I’d be remiss if I didn’t congratulate the Huffington Post on their Pulitzer...”
– Barack Obama (via peterfeld)
When I sold out to advertising →
“If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked...”
– A.A. Gill
“A viewer streaming our program online is now worth substantially more to us than...”
– CBS chief research officer David Poltrack (via)
“Scott for gods sake write and write truly no matter who or what it hurts but to...”
– Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald (May 10, 1934)
“While lads’ mags alone didn’t create this sexualised culture, they responded to...”
– The woman who edited Nuts magazine [via The Billfold]
(via frontofbook)
The Latest Sad Fate of an Aggregation Serf →
“We are inaugurating a miniseries on The 6th Floor. Every day for the next two...”
– Hugo Lindgren
“[Several young bloggers] said that they felt as if they were out there alone in...”
– Washington Post
“This next generation [Y] will probably be the first to earn less than their...”
– Christian Stadil
“You should not write for readers only. You should not bend yourself to their...”
– Han Han
“Really, the opposite of boredom isn’t stimulation, but deep engagement:...”
– Robin Sloan
“We now have nearly 500 editors and reporters and produce between 70 and 80...”
– Arianna Huffington
We are all Fox moles
Journalists don’t necessarily leak to other journalists about their workplace because they’re inherently untrustworthy. Leaking comes naturally to them because they spend so much time drilling for their own liquid assets, because they’re in the information-trading racket, because they thrill at the sight of transparency, and because they love to defy authority, especially when the authorities...
[Low-grade, functional anxiety] sufferers gather in places like New York, where relentlessness and impatience are the highest values, and in industries built on unrelenting deadlines and tightrope ideals. The shrinks say that these people — urban achievers — retain a superstitious belief in the magical powers of their worry. They believe it’s the engine that keeps them going,...
“Hearst and Pulitzer are distinguished names in journalism, but not all of their...”
– Steve Buttry
“They embodied elan, impeccable taste, extreme discretion (regarding money as...”
– “Death of a Playboy,” WSJ
“Unfortunately, [the] race for added sales is reflected editorially in the...”
– Bruce Bliven
“TC: How do you find your obsession? Then, how do you turn it into a lucrative...”
– Gavin McInnes: An In-depth Interview With “The Godfather of Hipsterdom” « Thought Catalog
This is a great interview and a huge departure from the usual emo sensitivity of Thought Catalog. Hopefully they’ll put out more pieces like this (and pay people for doing them!) because this was well...
“[Reuters’ and Bloomberg’s] deep pockets subsidize content that might...”
– Lucia Moses
Publishers at Hearst, Time Inc., Condé Nast and Meredith have reconceived the definition of a magazine editor. The notion of editors consumed with getting those pages out the door seems old-fashioned. Editing and designing — the old Harold Ross and Harold Hayes and Clay Felker part of the business — is increasingly a smaller part of the job. In the past, the editor ruled and the publisher simply...
“I’m always worried about being satisfied. When you become satisfied,...”
– Jack White
March 2012
43 posts
“The world needs more people who are serious, enlightened, and with an elegant...”
– Brunello Cucinelli
“Winning wasn’t just about getting guys that could play, it was about...”
– Kansas City Chiefs tackle Eric Winston, paraphrasing GM Scott Pioli
“Think of magazines as a ladder. Don’t cold-pitch the top rung, unless...”
– Adam Sternbergh