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The Atlantic charts new course with Laurene Powell Jobs
NEWS
- The Atlantic, Propped Up by Laurene Powell Jobs, Charts New Course
- How Adobe InDesign Took Over Publishing with Steve Jobs’ Help
- What to Watch: So, Media Brands Have New Owners — Now What?
- Time Inc. Stumble Sends Shares of Meredith Plunging
- The Collectability Factor of the Magazine Cover – Try & Claim That with Digital…
- Facebook Will Phase Out Its Account Kit in March 2020
- The Atlantic Acquires Faire Design, Integrating Into its Creative and Consulting Division Atlantic 57
- Inside London’s Biggest Magazine Archive
- Bloomberg Media To Double Subscriptions This Year
- Meredith’s Time-Management Problem: The Largest Magazine Publisher Has Some Explaining to Do
- 70% Of Financial Times’ Readers Are Outside The UK: Here’s How It’s Driving Global Growth
- BrightEdge Automates SEO with the Launch of BrightEdge Autopilot at Share19
- Google, Facebook Cozy Up to Publishers as Regulators Circle
- Marie Claire UK To Cease Print Publication After 31 Years
- The NYT Is the Latest Publisher to Put Up A Registration Wall
- Magazines Join Fight Against Single-Use Plastics by Looking into Alternatives to Polybagging
- ‘The Math Is Wrong’: Publishers Grumble About Google’s Ad Targeting Research
- Publishers Eye Google Moves as Potential Threats to Their Growing Commerce Businesses
- Physical Books Still Outsell E-Books — And Here’s Why
TRENDS
Special interest publications from Eating Well, The New York Times, Seventeen
- Special Interest Publications Are Giving Shuttered Print Magazines a New Lease on Life
- The State of Data Journalism Today, And the Importance of Humanizing Data Stories
- Cutting Print: Making It Work When Publishing Days Must Go
- How AI Will Really Transform the Media World: Insights from Condé Nast
- Tiktok Courts Publishers with Weekly Newsletter Previewing Trending Hashtags
- The Telegraph is Using Snapchat and Instagram to Find Subscribers
- How Would It Impact Publishers if Facebook Ditches the Like Count?
- Innovation: Are You Ready to Embrace Failure?
- Data Privacy: What Should Marketers Be Doing to Prepare for Regulation?
- How to Effectively Transition from Print to Digital: API Report
- Why Should Publishers Start a Podcast?
- Why Vinyl, Books and Magazines Will Never Go Away
- Study: Majority of Metered Paywalls Aren’t Sustainable
- Tech and Data Issues Pose Stiff Challenges to Reader Revenue Strategies
- For Publishing’s Middle Class, Linear Channels Have Become the Gateway to The Connected TV Market
- Publishers Have Begun to Find Success Selling Brands on Instagram TV
- September Is Becoming Just Another Month for Fashion Magazines
- Voice Search Offers Publishers A Big Opportunity. Here’s How to Make the Most of It
- Publishers Are Beefing Up Ad Buying Chops to Support Subscription Ambitions
METRICS
Evergreen Content
- Evergreen Content Drives Up To 40% Of Publisher Traffic: “20 In 20” And Other Strategies to Create Consistent Traffic Drivers
- The Rise of Instagram Stories Ads In Q2 2019
- 10 Essential Media Stats from August 2019
- U.S. Publishing Industry Revenues Reached $6 Billion In First Half Of 2019
- 89% Of Americans Get Their News Online, And Other Key Findings from Pew Research
- Branded Content Shows the Most Potential for Growth, As Mobile Usage Shoots Up: Publisher Insights from The WARC Study
- Survey Reveals Employees and Media are Driving Forces for Enterprise Technology Solutions in the Workplace
- Key Findings About the Online News Landscape in America
PEOPLE
Adam Sandow
- Up and Down the Masthead, Male Editors (Still) Significantly Out-Earn Females
- Editor and Publisher Sold to Media Consultant Mike Blinder
- Kat Downs Mulder Named Vice President of Product and Design at The Washington Post
- Billionaire Benioffs Are Making Taboo Editorial Changes at Time
- Luise Stauss Joins The Atlantic as Director of Photography
- Changes, Challenges, And Opportunities: Q&A with Adobe’s Kevin Lindsay
- ‘We’re Really Confident in Our Differentiation’: Atlantic President Michael Finnegan Discusses Its Long-Awaited Paywall
- Industry Insight: What’s a Journalist Worth? Finding the Answer Could Help Sustain Local News
Read more about people in media in our separate article More Staff Changes at Time, The Atlantic, Active Interest Media, and more…
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