Not quite halfway through the new season of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” a young woman, Portia, breaks into tears at breakfast. She is staying at a luxury resort in Sicily as the personal assistant of one of the wealthy...
Vox Media, which owns brands like The Verge, SB Nation and New York magazine, said on Friday that it would cut about 7 percent of its staff, joining a parade of tech and media companies laying off workers amid...
Starting a decade ago, a generation of new-money billionaires rode to the rescue of American journalism:2013: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million2014: eBay founder Pierre Omidyar granted First Look Media, including The...
Tiktok has gone from being a neglected platform for BBC News to one of its “main priorities” for 2023 in less than a year.This month BBC News advertised for four journalists on 12-month contracts to join a new Tiktok...
Spotify will lay off 6 percent of its workforce globally, the company’s CEO Daniel Ek announced in an all-staff memo today. Spotify had just over 9,800 full time employees as of its last earnings report, meaning today’s layoffs affect...
Axios launched its subscription business, Axios Pro, in January 2022 and within that first calendar year, secured more than 3,000 paid subscribers who contributed about $2 million in revenue, according to the company.At the one year mark, Axios Pro’s...
When Twitter first appeared in July 2006, I was enchanted by it. At one point, some geek created an app that logged tweets and geolocated them in real time on a map of the world, so you could watch...
Stress and anxiety have long been prevalent among news professionals. A Columbia Journalism Review article in 1999 noted that nearly 40% of editors in the U.S. “reported job-related health problems ranging from insomnia to alcoholism and hypertension.” There was...
The future has not been written. But in a time when robots and AI become more prevalent, it’s more important than ever to write emails with a human touch — in a personal and present manner.It shouldn’t be that...
The news start-up Semafor began operating late last year with big ambitions backed by deep-pocketed investors. But the company soon found itself in a pickle: how to handle its biggest outside investment, roughly $10 million, from Sam Bankman-Fried after...
