Joshua Gillin
May 15, 2013
12:06 pm
The New Yorker |
The Washington Post |
The New York Times |
Wired |
Guardian |
All Things D
The New Yorker on Tuesday introduced its new, anonymous electronic tip tool
Strongbox, coincidentally on the heels of renewed concerns over privacy for journalists' sources following revelations of Department of Justice surveillance of AP staffers (which The Washington Post's Timothy B. Lee notes is
"likely perfectly legal")
The Strongbox site ostensibly allows people to submit letters, documents, emails or any other files to the New Yorker anonymously. It was developed in conjunction with Wired investigations editor Kevin Poulsen and the late Web activist and developer Aaron Swartz, who
hanged himself in January after facing charges of wire fraud and computer fraud. Poulsen, whose publication also is owned by New Yorker parent Conde Nast,
wrote about Swartz's involvement, and why Strongbox was a necessity.
There’s a growing technology gap: phone records, e-mail, computer forensics, and outright hacking are valuable weapons for anyone looking to identify a journalist’s source. With some exceptions, the press has done little to keep pace: our information-security efforts tend to gravitate toward the parts of our infrastructure that accept credit cards.
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Jeff Sonderman
Apr. 4, 2012
12:09 pm
VentureBeat |
New York Times
Five major magazine publishers launched their own digital newsstand today called
Next Issue Media. Hearst, Conde Nast, Time Inc., Meredith, and News Corp. are basically trying to create
a Netflix for magazines -- for $9.99 or $14.99 a month, subscribers can read unlimited amounts of the 32 included magazines. Its market is currently limited to newer Android tablets, but should come to the iPad later this year.
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Jeff Sonderman
Oct. 5, 2011
11:00 am
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Jim Romenesko
Aug. 10, 2011
2:31 pm
The Atlantic Wire |
ABC News |
New York Daily News
The
recently launched account "suggests that many people care a great deal about what happens at Conde Nast," says a Conde Nast spokeswoman. The magazine publisher doesn't know if
the overheard conversations are real or made up, but it's dying to find out who's behind the feed. "We are still looking into it, so I don't know what will or won't happen" if the tweeter is unmasked, says the spokeswoman. The New York Daily News' Gatecrasher column
is told the "the probability of this person being a Teen Vogue employee is quite high."
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Steve Myers
Aug. 9, 2011
1:43 pm
New York Observer | TVSpyA new Twitter account,
Conde Elevator, shares elevator small talk that reveals life inside the Condé Nast building. "So far," writes Kat Stoeffel, "the dispatches reflect the Condé Nast we know and love: fear of Anna Wintour, food anxiety, women who date ambitiously, and male editors beleaguered by squeezing sex jokes into headlines." A couple recent tweets:
Meanwhile, a spoof Twitter account has started to chronicle the newsgathering of the fictitious local news station,
Channel 11 News:
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Jeff Sonderman
May 26, 2011
10:39 am
News publishers have had to develop a number of new digital capabilities in recent years, such as online advertising, social media, search-engine optimization, email marketing, video production, Web design and mobile app development.
After making those investments, most find their
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Jeff Sonderman
May 18, 2011
2:43 pm
Ad AgeA consortium of major magazine publishers, including Time Inc., Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith and News Corp.,
is preparing to launch an app marketplace to sell digital editions on their own terms, Ad Age reports. "By the fourth quarter you'll see us offering our unified marketplace, which will offer a consistent user experience across all titles and unique features like cross-title search, personalization and flex pricing," said Morgan Guenther, CEO of Next Issue Media. For now the focus is on Android-powered tablets; on Wednesday the group started selling magazines via Verizon's V Cast store on the Samsung Galaxy Tab. ||
Related: Report: 40% of magazine app users opt to let Apple share their data with publishers.
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Jim Romenesko
May 11, 2011
8:40 am
Women's Wear Daily
At Monday's National Magazine Awards, "there was a decidedly less-than-enthusiastic feel to everything tablet-y," write
Amy Wicks and
John Koblin. They report that
the deal Conde Nast struck with Apple last week is pretty much what
Steve Jobs has been proposing for months, and that publishers threw in the towel and now will see if they can make a go of it. (
David Carr asks: Is the iPad just a new way to give away magazines?) Wicks and Koblin point out some encouraging news:
Since Monday, when The New Yorker subscriptions on the iPad went up for sale, it has been listed as the top-grossing app in the iTunes store, the best result for a Condé title since Wired’s app went up for sale last May. Condé Nast officials said they didn’t have numbers available — they are produced on a weekly basis — but that it looks encouraging.
“There are many ways to have a good day in the magazine business as it gets stranger and stranger,” said New Yorker editor David Remnick while accepting the public service award. “Ours today at The New Yorker is to see our app has past Angry Birds in the iTunes store. Eat your heart out, William Shawn.”
> Six reasons why the iPad will be the magazine's savior (April 2010)
> "The iPad is not, not your salvation," writes Jeff Jarvis (August 2010)
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Jim Romenesko
Apr. 28, 2011
9:56 am
Forbes.com
Remember the
man who got Conde Nast to wire $8 million to the Quad Graph account he set up? (The publisher uses Quad
Graphics for its printing.) In a federal court filing submitted this week,
Andy Surface “waives any claim” to the money and agreed not to dispute the seizure. "Whether Surface will face criminal charges remains unknown," writes
William Barrett. ||
Houston Press: "Alvin, Texas, man dupes New York sophisticates."
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Jim Romenesko
Mar. 24, 2011
4:53 pm
Adweek.com
Lucia Moses hears the consultants have been asking questions about how the publishers run their businesses and where they see growth opportunities. She writes: "Word of McKinsey’s activity is bound to stoke some concerns inside Condé, given what happened back in 2009" when layoffs and deep budget cuts were associated with McKinsey's visits then. || Read the
Conde Nast/McKinsey stories from 2009.
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