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- Yesterday - November 6, 2009
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#kidstoday
Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear
That 16-year-old TechCrunch writer with 120,000 Twitter followers, who we wrote about yesterday, is part of a burgeoning child punditocracy. Children are operating in virtually every facet media — and doing so successfully. Fear for your job. More »
- Tuesday - November 3, 2009
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#newspaperwars
Wall Street Journal Takes on Local News
The Wall Street Journal is planning to hire a dozen new staffers to cover local news in NYC, Media Decoder reports. Let us point out every last implication to this news! More » - Thursday - October 29, 2009
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#jobs
Google's Broken Hiring Process
Google strives to hire "the world's best engineers,"and has crafted an "interminable" interview process dotted with puzzles and brainteasers to do so. One little problem: the process tends to give the worst scores to the best future employees. More » -
#theeconomy
Congratulations, America: You Propped Up the Economy by Spending the Money You're Not Making
The gross domestic product jumped 3.5% last quarter—the first increase in more than a year—sparking a stock rally and talk of the end of the Great Recession. No, no one has any jobs yet, but stop complaining! More » - Wednesday - October 28, 2009
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#recessionomics
Ride the Great American Satan Train to the Land of Prosperity
The Way We Live Now: Sulking about moodily. Night school is kicking our ass. We can't pay the train fare to work. And what's the point, even? There's no hope for employment. Unless you star in a music video. More » -
#newspapers
The New York Times' Big Old Newsroom
John Koblin got his hands on the New York Times' employee buyout offers—which handily include a breakdown of the numbers of employees in every one of the paper's departments. Behold something massive beyond reason! More » - Tuesday - October 27, 2009
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#recessionomics
Yes You Were Tortured and Forced Into Prostitution, But at Least You Don't Have to Go to Work
The Way We Live Now: To the extreme. We will sell ourselves for food. We will torture someone over loan modifications. We will make an entire nation too broke to afford McDonald's. What a seductive lifestyle! More » -
#creativeunderclass
Class Only Works for Teacher
"Find A Mag Job When The Economy is Crap." How? Start teaching a class called "Find A Mag Job When The Economy is Crap," like Ed2010 founder Chandra Czape Turner. Cost of class: $150. Actual value of class: $0. -
- Friday - October 23, 2009
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#mediacrack
More Layoffs Coming at Forbes?
In your foreboding Friday media column: Rumors of impending Forbes layoffs, more details on the Conde Nast Traveler cuts this week, an editor quits over her commute(!), and a former AP newsman kills himself. More » - Thursday - October 22, 2009
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#openmicnights
Want to Audition for a Gawker Night Editor Job?
We received so many responses to last week's night editors job listing that, to be honest, we need some help separating the interesting from the interested. So, we're starting an audition thread for anyone who'd like one of the jobs. More » -
#recessionomics
The System Will See You Now
The Way We Live Now: Doing everything we can to get your unemployed ass back on your feet. Don't blame "The System" if you can't find a job. "The System" is ready tore-assimilate you into The Matrixhelp you! More » - Tuesday - October 20, 2009
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#jobs
Bloomberg-ing of BusinessWeek Begins: Editor Out
Steve Adler resigned as editor in chief of BusinessWeek, the New York Post's Keith Kelly reports, effective as soon as Bloomberg LP completed its expected takeover of the McGraw-Hill magazine. This was to be expected. More » - Monday - October 19, 2009
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#layoffs
A Day of Reckoning at Conde Nast
We hear Wired had its own round of editorial layoffs today. What's going on at Conde Nast? A very bad Monday. In a very bad month. Let's review:
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- Thursday - October 15, 2009
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#jobs
Gawker Is Seeking Night Owls
Do you stay up all night? Or maybe live in a timezone where you're up when it's the middle of the night in NYC? Oh good, because Gawker has some overnight positions open. Details after the jump. More » - Wednesday - October 14, 2009
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#mediacrack
Flacks Love This Businessweek Deal
In your overstuffed Wednesday media column: a PR man cheers Bloomberg's latest purchase, Calvin Trillin says crotchety things, the New Yorker hires(!) somebody, Brides loses advertisers, and the Washington Post poaches from HuffPo, for a change. More » - Monday - October 12, 2009
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#kariferrell
Hipster Grifter Sentenced, to Jail
The long, criminally hipster tale of Hipster Grifter Kari Ferrell has finally reached the portion of "Phase Three: Justice" where she receives her dramatic jail sentence.
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#thepoors
Mediabistro Employee Learns to Live in Poverty
Amanda Ernst, the new editor of Mediabistro's Fishbowl NY, was on the Today Show this morning! Topic: How to deal with her crushing poverty as she tries to survive on a paltry Mediabistro wage.
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#jobsinhell
Edit Now. Pay
Buck up, underemployed aspiring media employees who are not celebuspawn: We've found you yet another opportunity for indentured servitude masquerading as a "media job." How'd you like to be a real live Editor in Chief, eh? More »LaterNever. - Tuesday - October 6, 2009
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#jobs
Become Record Label To Rappers Who Hate Record Labels
Working with internet startup Sellaband, Public Enemy hopes to turn its fans into investors, bucking The Man in the process. For as little as $25, you too can become a greedy record executive. Just like those slammed by Public Enemy. More » -
#recessionomics
We Must Not Allow Our Businesspersons to Taste Hippie Freedom
The Way We Live Now: Beneath our proper stations. Respectable PR men and attorneys are now voluntarily doing so-called "other" jobs, like common hippie layabouts. The actual hippie layabouts are complaining because they lost their second jobs, to attorneys. More » - Monday - October 5, 2009
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#jobs
How To Get Fired For Twittering: Waiter Edition
Jon-Barrett Ingels was fired as a waiter thanks in large part to Jane Adams. The co-star of HBO's Hung couldn't pay her check, then failed to tip when she did. The waiter complained on Twitter; Smith complained to his boss. More » - Friday - October 2, 2009
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#recessionomics
What Do You Mean By 'Job?'
The Way We Live Now: Jobbing differently. Gone is the stuffy old paradigm where we "get up and go to work" and "clock in at a certain time" and "act professional." In its place: all types of crazy shit. More » -
#moneymatters
Don't Worry, Ad People Still Make Astronomic Salaries
If this recession has you down, take heart in the fact that "chief creative officers" at America's biggest ad agencies are still able to charge people almost a thousand bucks an hour. More » - Thursday - September 17, 2009
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#jobs
Bonnie Fuller Hires First Victim
Bonnie Fuller just hired TMZ's New York bureau chief, Will Lee, as executive editor of her soon-to-be relaunched HollywoodLife.com. Fuller is known for taking underlings' underwear and making them wash breast pumps. Our thoughts and prayers are with Lee tonight. -
#recessionomics
The Government Funnels Your Tax Dollars to Things That Kill You (So Wake Up)
The Way We Live Now: Underminingly. Have we forgotten the principles of Chaos Theory that we learned in that Jurassic Park sequel? All these "cutbacks" to "save money" will "destroy us." Is the bright side really a dangerous money fire? More » - Wednesday - September 16, 2009
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#jobs
Arianna's Knight in Khaki Armor
We always found it strange the Huffington Post was unprofitable, what with the Web juggernaut's traffic growth, editorial accomplishments and army of unpaid writers. It turns out HuffPo's investors thought that was weird too. Time for a new ad man. More » -
#internalmemos
AOL's CEO Calls for 'Laser Focus,' Fires People
Tim Armstrong has begun to shape AOL to his liking, four months after Time Warner announced the much-diminished internet conglomerate's spinoff. Here's the internal memo in which the CEO calls some serious buckling down — and jettisons two executives. More » - Friday - September 11, 2009
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#beeshaffer
Anna Wintour's Daughter Is a Poor Theater Hobo
Bee Shaffer is the daughter of Anna Wintour, Queen of All America. Despite that fact she cannot "find" a "job," allegedly? It's because she keeps it too real, yall. More » -
#jobs
Michael Kinsley Finds Steady Paycheck
Michael Kinsley—a smart columnist who's maybe not the world's best manager—has been hired by The Atlantic as "editor-in-chief of a new digital media property" that's launching next year. He'll also write a column. Good for us, regardless. [Politico] - Thursday - September 10, 2009
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#mediacrack
Julia Allison Paid Astounding Amount of Money, To Write
In your clinically insane Thursday media column: We reveal Julia Allison's freelance rate, Mark Whicker says more unfortunate things, laid-off journalists hustle, and Garrison Keillor suffers a stroke. Possibly after hearing Julia Allison's freelance rate. More » -
#fashion
The Only Qualification for Teen Vogue Interns
Teen Vogue is cannily taking advantage of the widespread yearning to work in fashion by publishing a new "Handbook" which says—we're paraphrasing—"You will fail. Fashion sucks." But the NYT digs up one solitary useful piece of advice.
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- Friday - September 4, 2009
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#americanapparel
Dov Charney's Tear-Stained Letter to His 1,500 Laid-off Employees
Earlier this summer, American Apparel got nailed for having nearly 2,000 illegal factory workers in L.A.. Now 1,500 of those workers have been fired. Dov Charney is even sadder about it than they are.
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#badnews
The unemployment rate climbed to 9.7%, with 216,000 jobs lost last month.
- Thursday - September 3, 2009
- Monday - August 31, 2009
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#newspapers
Young Reporters Are Fired
Are you a newspaper reporter under the age of 35? No, because if you were, you would be fired immediately. More » - Thursday - August 27, 2009
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#trendwatch
Book Inspires Yuppies to Take Jobs They'll Regret
Seriously, this whole Shop Class As Soulcraft idolatry movement full of retro-blue collar yuppies: stop it. You people are like hippies but instead of getting back to nature you want to get back to... floor cleaning jobs, apparently. More » -
#mediacrack
Layoffs at AP Entertainment Beat
In your recovering Thursday media column: layoffs at the AP, a truly awesome correction, another restaurant critic gets canned, the SPJ conference is good for alkies, and Incisive Media has contest that is fun and tasty! More » - Monday - August 24, 2009
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#recessionomics
Financial Meltdown Traced Back to Suburban Cul-de-sac
The Way We Live Now: In a cul-de-sac in Moreno Valley, California.The NYT has made it the national headquarters of recession-oriented media interest! Meanwhile, back in New York, the Hamptons crumble, and everyone's ready to kill to be a plumber. More » - Friday - August 21, 2009
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#jobs
Gawker Is Seeking Video Interns
Do you like to watch TV? Would like to watch TV for us instead of your Twitter account? (The pay is the same, btw.) Well, lucky you: the Gawker Video team is looking for fall interns. Details after the jump. More » -
#creativeoverclass
Sulzberger Family Member Lands Job at New York Times!
How many fortunate coincidences can one family have? First, three successive generations of Sulzbergers become publishers of the New York Times. Then young A.G. Sulzberger lands a reporting gig there. Now another Sulzberger relatives's joining the paper! Total insanity. More »
