Financial documents that Forbes magazine has been handing out to potential buyers show that while the company is doing better than some other publishers, its rumored asking price of $400 million… Read more »
Google is stepping up its media game with the launch of Newsstand, a Flipboard-style reading app for Android that also supports subscription walls for newspapers and magazines and replaces its existing… Read more »
Flipboard is making it easy for users creating curated magazines on the platform to collect and share products, complete with pricing information — features that seem aimed at the same ecommerce… Read more »
Josh Marshall of the political blog network Talking Points Memo says that he has pulled his site’s feeds from both Google Currents and Flipboard because he says he sees these services… Read more »
There may be some low-quality content being published on Medium, says founder Evan Williams, but the platform is building ways of filtering through that to find great content that otherwise wouldn’t… Read more »
Despite her successful track record at magazines like Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, editor Tina Brown was incapable of making The Daily Beast work. Her failure there says a lot… Read more »
With the launch of a web version, Flipboard highlights how far it has evolved from its early days as a standalone app, and how it is both a partner and a… Read more »
More than half of those surveyed in a new Gallup poll said that the television is their main source for news, and about 21 percent chose the internet. Less than 10… Read more »
According to multiple reports, media mogul Barry Diller is looking to unload his stake in Newsweek magazine. Is the title’s brand irreparably damaged, or could a new owner revitalize it? Here… Read more »
With the proliferation of new publishing platforms — and not just blogs or social networks, but also all-digital publishers like Medium, LinkedIn and the Huffington Post — how does a writer… Read more »