Topic: John Koblin

There have been several recent postings questioning the viability of magazine sales on the IPad. They have suggested that the iPad is not proving...

Lineup for February 4th, 2009

How's the traffic for Tina Brown and Barry Diller's Daily Beast? According to John Koblin, "It seems the early curiosity and endless pitching on television that gave the site its big start arent enough to keep numbers up: they had ...

Lineup for January 7, 2009

Who are this year's Media Mensches? Meet The New York Times' Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson, director Errol Morris, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux's Lorin Stein, and 60 Minutes' Jeffrey Fager.Felix Gillette looks at CBS News correspondent ...
John Koblin writes a very good piece in this week's Observer on the state of magazines online post-crash and it's a mixed totebag with some magazines - The New Yorker seems to be the poster child - getting it at last but ...

Magazines Must Adapt to the Web or Die

John Koblin writes a very good piece in this week's Observer on the state of magazines online post-crash and it's a mixed totebag with some magazines - The New Yorker seems to be the poster child - getting it at last but ...

Lineup for December 3rd, 2008

What are people saying about David Gregory, NBC News' heir presumptive for Tim Russert's job on Meet the Press? Felix Gillette talks to some who say things like, Hes got great instincts when it comes to what area of stories to ...

Lineup for November 19th, 2008

Felix Gillette looks at CNN, which might want to rename itself The Corpulent News Network. How did the story of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State appointee begin? John Koblin traces the story as it made its way from NBC's Andrea ...
Jason Horowitz reports that Democratic foreign policy experts think there's a simple reason Barack Obama might want Hillary Clinton as secretary of state: because she'd be good at it. John Koblin tried to trace the story of the story of ...

Lineup for November 12, 2008

John Koblin looks at editors who moonlight as writers, and talks to The New Yorker's David Remnick who says, " As Economy Quakes, Home Mags Teeter.Felix Gillette sifts through some recently released Rather v. CBS documents and unearths some interesting nuggets ...
As Gawker noted the other day, the newly-dismissed staff of Radar is throwing a Halloween bash tonight to " A lot of people in this town can probably use a drink tonight.On Friday, Media Mob's John Koblin broke the news that ...