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Some Serious Editorial Mishegas at the Wall Street Journal

WTF, WSJ? First, there’s Kali Hays’s piece in yesterday’s WWD (tip o’ the pixel to The Missus). WSJ Reorganization Continues as Editors Reapply for Positions The Wall Street Journal has been slowing moving forward with its restructuring. The Wall Street Journal is … Continue reading

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FTC Cracks Down on Native Advertising

Lately, the Federal Trade Commission has been acting all kinds of feisty. First it busted two app developers for using “persistent identifiers” to collect kids’ information for targeted advertising. The FTC has also fielded two complaint about the YouTube Kids … Continue reading

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Headline New Network: This One’s Better (WWD Edition)

Second in what we expect will be a long-running series Here’s the cover of the latest edition of WWD.     And here, WWD editors, is what the headline should have been: The Audacity of Haute You’re welcome.

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Time Inc.’s Norman Pearlstine Is Two-Timing His Readers

From our Late to the Party Pooper desk For almost a year now, the hardtracking staff has been dutifully recording the Fall of the House of Luce, as Time Inc. leases out its editorial content to advertisers. The latest installment comes in … Continue reading

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The Art Seen In New York (Magritte/Balthus Edition)

Well the Missus and I trundled down to The Big Town last weekend and say, it was swell. (After, that is, we crawled our way through the Mother-in-Law of All Traffic Jams: From the New York City line to the … Continue reading

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Is Rafael Nadal Conceding The U.S. Open?

In the runup to next week’s U.S. Open tennis tournament, defending champion Rafael Nadal is understandably doing a lot of media avails. Such as this one for WWD: Rafael Nadal’s Winning Ways Behind the baseline, Rafael Nadal is known to … Continue reading

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NYT Tries To Ad To Digital Subscriptions

First the New York Times launched a pay wall. Then it launched an ad campaign. Via WWD (via the Missus): The Times is running a series of three posters on Metro North, Long Island Railroad, in taxis and on the … Continue reading

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