A publishing executive warned me yesterday that Steve Florio, the iconic former CEO of Conde Nast Publications, was even more ill than had been previously reported. Today I awoke, switched...
I'm on vacation until just after Christmas. While I'm away, posting frequency will range from very light to nonexistent. Enjoy your holidays!...
As you may have heard, Led Zeppelin played a one-off reunion show in London last night. And, like any good rock fan, I clicked on the video link on this...
Took over as CEO of Dow Jones: Feb, 2006. Date of Departure from Dow Jones: upon the completion of the News Corp. acqusition of Dow Jones. (Read: soon.) Financial Results,...
Yesterday a bunch of newspaper companies gave presentations to investors at an annual confab sponsored by UBS. The news, as you might expect, was not particularly heartening, but perhaps the...
Andy Plesser from beet.tv came by late last week to film a quick segment bouncing off my media predictions for 2008. And it looks a little bit like this, at...
The New York Times’ Jeff Leeds had another excellent music biz state-of-the-moment piece, in Saturday’s paper, concerning how major commercial radio stations are playing fewer songs more frequently....
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