How Sportico was created and launched during a pandemic
Seth Everett of the “Sports with Friends” podcast interviewed Sportico CEO Dick Glover about the creation of the sports business news website, which launched this week by Penske Media. “The ideas was hatched six or seven months ago,” said Glover. “It was just finding the right people to do it.” The site is run editorially by Scott […]
Why RIA Intel has been successful
Greg Bartalos, the editor of RIA Intel, a website from Institutional Investor, writes about the reason for its success as it turns one year old. Bartalos writes, “Over several weeks and interviews, pressure built as I struggled to find a reporter. I was admittedly extremely picky but, given that RIA Intel was a new publication (and small […]
Curbed is closing its San Francisco website
Real estate news site Curbed is closing its San Francisco website, writes Brock Keeling of Curbed. Keeling writes, “Effective today, we’re stopping production on this site. But it won’t be the end of Curbed stories about San Francisco and the Bay Area. Starting Monday, June 29, those stories will appear on Curbed.com, our flagship site, in […]
Time launches personal finance site with former Money editor
Time and Red Ventures have launched a personal finance site called NextAdviser being run by former Money editor in chief Adam Auriemma. NextAdvisor is free and will feature strategy guides, perspectives on the economy, analysis of the latest tools and products and reported stories, focusing on the fundamentals of financial wellness, from saving, managing debt, and […]
Examining the workplace culture at tech publisher Digital Trends
Kayleigh Barber of Digiday writes about the workplace culture at tech news site Digital Trends, where 70 percent of the employees are white males. Barber writes, “Tech publisher Digital Trends is a rare media success story. A bootstrapped, privately owned company, DT is profitable at a time where many media companies of all sizes are feeling compressed and are […]
Twitter restores Zero Hedge after admitting mistake
Twitter Inc. reinstated the account of Zero Hedge after suspending it earlier this year, saying it made a mistake in accusing the financial website of violating rules against harassment, reports Siraj Datoo of Bloomberg News. Datoo reports, “‘We made an error in our enforcement action in this case,’ a spokesperson for Twitter said in an email. ‘Based […]
Tech gadget site Wirecutter moves to NYTimes.com
Tech gadget site Wirecutter, acquired by the New York Times in 2016, has become part of the newspaper’s main website. In a post Wednesday, the site explained: Q: Why did you move to nytimes.com? Can I expect to see the same reviews and reporting from the same team I’ve come to trust? A: We’ve shared […]
Quartz CEO Seward: We’re closing office spaces, execs cutting salaries by 20%
Quartz CEO Zach Seward sent out the following to the staff regarding the layoffs and restructuring: Hi, Quartz Thank you for joining our meeting just now. Here’s a transcript of my remarks. From the start of this crisis, I’ve wanted to give you all a definitive assessment of what it would mean for Quartz, beyond […]
Orange County Biz Journal seeks a web editor
The Orange County Business Journal is seeking a business-focused journalist with the skills to take on various assignments, with a focus on managing the day-to-day operations of the paper’s growing web site and digital operations. The OCBJ is the go-to source of business news for the country’s 6th largest county, with a population topping 3 […]
News Corp CEO Thomson: WSJ reaches 3 million subscribers
The Wall Street Journal has reached approximately 3 million subscribers in the last week, a new record, with over 2.2 million that are digital-only, according to comments made Thursday by News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson. Earlier, Journal parent Dow Jones & Co. had received 3 million subscribers across all of its publications, and that was […]
