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Mondo Times editors
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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Mondo Times editors
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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Mondo Times editors
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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Mondo Times editors
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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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:37pm on Monday, December 15th, 2008 | On December 10, 2008, Time Inc. announced that it will stop publishing a Canadian version of Time magazine.
"Due to the challenging economic climate and recent Time Inc. restructuring, Time is eliminating its Canadian advertiser edition immediately after publication of the 12/29 issue. Moving forward, readers and advertisers in Canada will be served by TIME's U.S. Edition," said Ali Zelenko in an emailed statement.
Time Inc. published a Canadian edition of Time magazine for over 60 years.
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:23pm on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 | No wonder college kids are so dumb!
AdAge.com ran a story on December 1, 2008 titled "Time Overtakes Cosmo as Big Brand on Campus."
"Among college kids' favorite brands: Facebook, Nike, iPod -- and Time magazine.
Those were among the findings of this year's Anderson Analytics fall survey, which since 2005 has posed a series of open-ended questions to college kids about their favorite brands and activities. This year more than 1,000 students across the nation were asked to quickly list things such as a favorite magazine or good book they had read recently.
While in some cases the results were predictable, there were a few surprises. Time magazine, for instance, ranked as the No. 1 magazine, unseating perennial favorite Cosmo and jumping ahead of last year's No. 2, People. CNN.com made it into the top 10 websites for the first time, while sites such as Perez Hilton and CollegeHumor dropped off the list."
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Ted B.
Los Angeles CA | Posted at 3:28pm on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | So good ole Time Inc. has redesigned the print edition of Time Magazine along with the web site, in order to provide what they call "a continuous, 24/7 news experience." Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaa. These clowns can barely string letters into words, and are clearly incapable of combining words into meaningful sentences. Remember that Time and People magazines come from the same low place, and perform the same low function.
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