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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:21am on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 | January 29, 2010: Gilbert Cruz is now briefing editor at Time. He was previously education reporter there. In other appointments, Radhika Jones is now assistant managing editor and Tim Morrison has been named arts editor. They were previously arts editor and briefing editor, respectively.
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 12:03pm on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 | Time to Acquire StyleFeeder
The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19, 2010:
"Time Inc. is acquiring StyleFeeder, an online service that offers personalized shopping recommendations, as the Time Warner Inc. magazine group tries to ease a sharp decline in advertising revenue with a largely untapped revenue stream: e-commerce.
Publications are scrambling for new ways to make money online and in print, prompting some companies to consider charging readers for access to Web sites and to raise subscription prices. Other companies are pushing into selling products, whether it's The Wall Street Journal, owned by News Corp., and Gannett Co.'s USA Today selling wine or fashion or beauty magazines moving from writing about trends in handbags and lipsticks to selling the products themselves.
"Advertising will always be our core, and our primary revenue stream online, but that growth is slowing," said Fran Hauser, who oversees digital strategy for a group of Time Inc. magazines including People, InStyle and Entertainment Weekly. "Our editors are generating significant consumer demand for products in the retail market. And what StyleFeeder allows us to do is share in that value creation."
The full story:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703626604575011191771805782.html
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:58am on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 | D.W. Pine is now design director of Time Magazine after serving as deputy for the past nine years. Pine has directed six of the magazine’s Person of the Year issues, as well as last year’s Michael Jackson special issue.
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Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:52am on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | TIME Names United States Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke 2009 Person of the Year
NEW YORK, December 16, 2009 -- Time magazine has named United States Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke the 2009 Person of the Year. Time's Person of the Year issue has the first full, on-the-record print interview with Bernanke since he became Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
The Person of the Year runners-up were: #2 General Stanley McChrystal, #3 "The Chinese Worker," #4 Nancy Pelosi and #5 Usain Bolt.
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:44pm on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 | Long form journalism is not working online, says Josh Tyrangiel, managing editor of Time.com. Beet TV posted an interview with Tyrangiel on August 22, 2009:
"In this third part of my chat with Josh, he explains how stories are written and edited for the Web. He says that some 95 percent of content on his site is created exclusively for the Web.
He says that a a lot of the magazine content published on the Web site does not do "too great" online. Some of it is "just too long," he says.
The full interview:
http://www.beet.tv/2009/08/long-form-journalism-on-the-web-is-not-working-timecom-managing-editor.html
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:05pm on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | Writing in the grand Time magazine style on June 8, 2009, James Poniewozik fervently refuses to draw conclusions or even frame the problem in his article "If the Journalism Business Fails, Who Pays for Journalism?:"
"Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that nothing saves journalism. "Journalism," that is, as a profession and as currently constructed: a full-time job paid for by newsgathering entities through a combination of subscriptions and advertising.
Let's assume—with maybe a rare few exceptions—that just goes away. Let's assume that you can improve journalism as much as you want, take advantage of the possibilities of new media as much as you want, but in general, people still simply do not want to pay for it, and it still remains worth far less to advertisers than it used to be. Let's assume newspapers fold en masse, and going online-only does not save enough money to pay people to do journalism as their chief source of income. That's gone.
What replaces it? And by that, I mean, who pays for what replaces it?"
More if you dare:
http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/06/08/if-the-journalism-business-fails-who-pays-for-journalism/
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:12pm on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | Time magazine's annual "100 Most Influential People" poll has been hacked, with millions of bogus votes for "moot," Folio magazine reported on April 22, 2009:
"Even Time.com isn’t immune to hackers. The magazine’s annual online poll of the top 100 most influential people in government, science, technology and the arts has been flooded with fake votes by followers of 4chan, an online message board.
Taking advantage of an apparent lack of authentication or validation of the online process, hackers used “autovoters” to inundate the Time poll with millions of votes for “moot,” a pseudonym of Christopher Poole, operator of 4chan. Voting went live March 19."
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:07pm on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | Time and Newsweek magazines will never be The Economist, Matt Pressman argued in Vanity Fair on April 20, 2009:
"Time and Newsweek seem to think The Economist is an opinion journal, and that emulating it is simply a matter of adding more analysis, a stronger editorial viewpoint, and maybe cleverer covers. In 2006, Newsweek editor-in-chief Jon Meacham told the New York Observer, “The Economist doesn’t even attempt to do original reporting, particularly.” He’s wrong. Last week's Economist, a typical issue, published stories datelined Tallinn, Colombo, and Lagos. A little help for you Newsweek readers out there: those cities are located in Estonia, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria. But instead of filling their articles with self-serving quotes from government ministers you’ve never heard of, The Economist’s correspondents just give you the essential facts and a meaningful takeaway, whether the information came from their own reporting, the local press, or some obscure think tank."
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:15am on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | March 23, 2009: Donald Fries, the publisher of Time magazine, is resigning from the job. Mark Ford, the president of Time Inc.'s newsmagazine group -- which includes Time, Fortune and Sports Illustrated -- will take over ad sales for Time. The departure of Fries follows the retirement last fall of Edward McCarrick, the worldwide publisher of Time magazine, amid a broad restructuring at Time Inc. McCarrick, a 35-year veteran, was not replaced.
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Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:31pm on Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 | On January 13, 2009, Folio magazine reported that Barack Obama is good for Time magazine:
"Barack Obama — whose election helped boost newspaper sales and propped up dozens of magazines at the newsstand — appears to have done the same for Time in 2008.
Newsstand sales for Time’s commemorative election issue and Person of the Year issue shattered the magazine’s own single copy sales records.
The November 17 election issue sold an estimated 575,000 single copies — nearly five times as many copies as an average issue — forcing the magazine to go back to print four times."
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