📖 Inside the Crisis at NPR: '[T]he nonprofit is struggling to succeed in the fast-changing media industry. It is grappling with a declining audience and falling revenue — and internal conflict about how to fix it.' nytimes.com/2024/04/24/bus…

Wait, are we doing 'just give me the recipe' w/ every form of writing now?

I will not apologize for loving a media succession story. Just wish there were more publications still around where this mattered. This could be the last one.

Driving around all day in a 4Runner ripping Parliaments is what Shelley Duvall is up to these days and also what I would like to be up to these days. nytimes.com/2024/04/25/sty…

📖 Inside the Meltdown at the Sierra Club: ''[W]hat's really sticking out to me right now is this feeling that you can't trust anyone. There's just a lot of fear around what's going on and what could potentially happen.'' newrepublic.com/article/180435…

📖 In New Orleans, a Pioneering Nonprofit Newsroom Ponders a Future Beyond Its Founder: 'Over the past two decades, as the larger news industry has shriveled, nonprofits have become a source of hope for many media watchers.' poynter.org/business-work/…

'I'm happy to cancel to punish the companies who are making me do this.' More people are subscribing to a streaming service for one show before immediately canceling. It'll be interesting to see how this shifts what gets made and how it's distributed. nytimes.com/2024/04/20/bus…

(1/8) For #EarthDay , inspiring, solutions-focused SSIR stories that offer lessons and hope: #1 SSIR’s Spring ’24 cover story on the health care industry’s fight to save the planet and lessons social sector leaders can apply to movement building HCWH - Global ssir.org/articles/entry…

📖 'It's a Silent Fire': Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis: 'Experts hope that evolving tech will help more than hinder, often pointing to the notion that artificial intelligence may soon aid in rediscovery.' hollywoodreporter.com/business/digit…

This was fun. Shawn McCreesh says, in the world of magazines, the '80s belonged to Tina Brown's Vanity Fair, the '70s to Rolling Stone's gonzo era, and the '40s to Fortune. I'd add that the 2000s were all about David Granger's Esquire, except for 2008 (Conde Nast Portfolio lol).

There’s gotta be a market for more bookstores in Chicago if I had to drive all the way to Oakbrook to pick this up today. Who wants to go in on one?

Was not expecting the latest installment of this little recurring front-of-book item to pack such a punch. nytimes.com/2024/04/16/mag…

📖 The Designer Who Makes Movie Posters Worthy of Museums: ''A poster's job is to celebrate a film in one frame. The job is well done when an audience is piqued and the poster makes it to the dorm room wall.'' nytimes.com/2024/03/12/art…

.jimrutenberg on CNN's split-second decision to air the self-immolation outside Trump's trial, and 'the promise and perils of live cable news, especially for the network that invented the genre': nytimes.com/2024/04/20/bus…

When WAMU laid off 16 people and closed DCist, the reasoning given was “content strategy word salad,' per one staffer.

Andrew Beaujon cuts through the jargon and nonsense with a deeply reported, excellent look at what actually happened: washingtonian.com/2024/04/19/why…

Graydon Carter, shopkeeper. nytimes.com/2024/04/19/sty…

'I didn't realize how important it would feel that the articles I do belong to me. It gives me a sense of agency that I don't think I ever had.' cjr.org/business_of_ne…

The Daily Beast's office dog supposedly peed on the carpet for the first time this week to welcome new leadership. nypost.com/2024/04/18/med…