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paging_filter THE OPT OUT FIGHT—Capital’s Jessica Bakeman: High Achievement New York, a pro-Common Core coalition that includes business groups, has launched a six-figure radio and digital advertising campaign encouraging parents to “opt in” their children for state exams. The campaign aims to combat the growing movement of children refusing state tests, which has been fueled…
NOT long after Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, said he would pay $250m of his own money for the chronically loss-making Washington Post, in August 2013, he sat next to the newspaper’s editorial-page editor, Fred Hiatt, at a dinner. It was a perfect opportunity to influence the Post’s line, but Mr Bezos reportedly preferred…
It’s an annual moment of print realism here at Nieman Lab: The posting of the attention slide from Mary Meeker’s state-of-the-Internet slide deck. It’s enough of a tradition that I can now copy-and-paste from multiple versions of this post. Here’s a sentence from the 2013 version: For those who don’t know it, Meeker — formerly…
If you’re looking for advice about getting pitches accepted, there’s no better person to ask than the editor of the publication you want to write for. Sure, there are pitch templates. And other writers may be able to offer some counsel, but even they won’t know all the nuances of what a particular pub wants…
Eric Spitz, left, and Aaron Kushner, right. LEONARD ORTIZ, FILE PHOTO googleon: allSANTA ANA – Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz, co-owners of Freedom Communications, resigned Tuesday from all executive duties at Freedom and the Orange County Register.Publisher Rich Mirman, the former casino marketing executive who has been running day-to-day operations since fall, assumed their executive…
Significant questions have arisen after a large number of images were disqualified from this year’s World Press Photo competition because of excessive — and sometimes blatant — post-processing. After independent experts examined the images being considered for prizes in the final rounds, and presented their findings to the jury, 20 percent of the photos were…
To state the obvious, it seems like an odd time to discontinue the one Times beat devoted solely to race and ethnicity. (A few words of reminder: Michael Brown of Ferguson, Eric Garner of Staten Island, Tamir Rice of Cleveland.) But that’s what happened this week, as the Times announced that Tanzina Vega, who has…
Mayfair Games, the publisher behind Settlers of Catan and Cones of Dunshire, is offering Extra Extra and Flea Market within the next two months. Settlers of Catan is pretty fun, but if you find yourself playing it as much as the Green Bay Packers, it might be time to mix things with another tabletop game….
WIRED Ones: I need a few minutes of your attention to talk about how we treat the workspace we’ll fully occupy on Jan. 5. #newwiredoffice A photo posted by Scott Dadich (@sdadich) on Jan 5, 2015 at 9:56am PST We made a big investment in the construction and design of the new floor — more…
by Julia Homer (About the author: Julia Homer was the editor of CFO Magazine for its 1985 launch and served at CFO Publishing until January 2012 when she left as executive vice president. While CFO was part of The Economist Group from 1989 to 2009, Homer helped launch CFO Europe, CFO Asia and CFO China,…