Computerworld publishing last print edition next week
Scott Finnie, the editor in chief of Computerworld, posted the following on the magazine’s website: On June 23, we will publish the last print issue of Computerworld. It was 47 years ago, almost to the day, that Computerworld‘s very first issue rolled off the presses: June 21, 1967. The newspaper’s first publisher was the late […]
Sun-Times disbands Grid staff
The Chicago Sun-Times has disbanded the staff of its business publication Grid, with publisher Brandon Copple leaving last week, reports Lynn Marek of Crain’s Chicago. Marek writes, “The Grid brand, which devolved from a print publication to an online product over the past year, will live on in Sun-Times papers. Other staffers have shifted to […]
Canadian biz magazines to merge in 2014
Canadian Business magazine is merging with PROFIT and the combined publication will put out a reduced number of issues, Rogers Communications Inc. announced Monday. Christine Dobby of the Financial Post writes, “The Toronto-based telecom giant’s publishing division owns both of the titles and said in a statement the new magazine, which will operate under the […]
PaidContent is shutting; content moves to GigaOm
Tom Krazit writes that that the PaidContent site that covered tech and media news is closing and its content is moving to GigaOm, which bought the site last year. Krazit writes, “paidContent has a rich legacy of cutting-edge media coverage, a place I called home for a little over a year before joining forces with […]
CNBC has worst quarter in 20 years
Matt Wilstein of Mediaite reports that business news channel CNBC just had its worst quarter in 20 years in terms of ratings. Wilstein writes, “The network hit a 20-year ratings low in the coveted 25-54 demo over the last three months. With just 38K viewers in the demo for total day, the network had its […]
Reuters to cut 5 percent of its editorial staff
Reuters plans to cut 5 percent of its editorial staff, editor in chief Steve Adler announced in a conference call on Wednesday. Kara Blomgarden Smoke of The New York Observer writes, “The cuts will be broadly distributed across the globe and across all levels of the news agency, including managers, Mr. Adler clarified during a […]
Reuters seeks to eliminate five positions tied to Reuters Next
The Newspaper Guild, a union that represents approximately 400 employees of the global information provider Thomson Reuters, announced Friday that management is seeking “to eliminate five Guild positions from the recently condemned Reuters Next project by Nov. 29, almost half of the current New York-based online team,” reports Joe Pompeo of Capital New York. Pompeo writes, […]
World’s longest-running biz paper to stop print edition
Lloyd’s List, which has provided shipping news from London since 1734, has decided to abandon print and go fully digital, reports Robert Cookson of the Financial Times. Cookson writes, “The world’s longest-running business newspaper started as a notice pinned to the wall of a coffee shop in the City of London, offering news and information […]
Freeland was force behind Reuters Next, and why it was killed
Chrystia Freeland, the Reuters managing editor and director of consumer news who recently left the news organization, was the force behind the redesign of its web site, dubbed Reuters Next, and the reason why the company scuttled the plans, writes Matthew Zeitlin of BuzzFeed. Zeitlin writes, “Freeland is a 45-year-old diminutive journalism dynamo who made […]
Reuters Next: An example of corporate dysfunction and neglect
Jeff Bercovici of Forbes.com breaks down what happened with the Reuters Next project that was building a new web presence for the news service and why it failed. Bercovici writes, “Next was meant to fix all that and give Reuters a rich, dynamic consumer website that could compare favorably to those of the Wall Street […]
