Last year I got laid off from my media job and wasn’t sure what to do next. I think it’s important for those of us who left to talk about how, why, and that there are great opportunities out there. Thanks Linda Zebian at Muck Rack for the chat! muckrack.com/blog/2024/02/1…

Don't forget to call your national plan for vacation

I took a deep dive into New York Times Games: vanityfair.com/news/inside-th…

Some Perlbergsonal news! Excited to get started Merantix and do something completely new, and also very thankful for a fun decade in journalism

On the WAG beat nytimes.com/2023/08/30/sty…

PICKLEBALL INJURIES MAY COST AMERICANS UP TO $400 MILLION THIS YEAR

New report from UBS says that in addition to competing with kids and tennis players for valuable public park players, 'picklers' are contributing to higher healthcare utilization rates bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

'We Estimate $250-500 mn in Medical Costs Attributable to Pickleball in 2023' - UBS

Healthcare companies look at these pickleball charts and see dollar signs

Same energy

After years of covering media layoffs, it's my turn. Insider laid me off, and I'm looking for what's next! Maybe something within journalism, but maybe not! (I'm looking to stay in Berlin). DMs open / firstlast @ gmail

I went on the goop cruise, for Harper's Magazine 😉harpers.org/archive/2023/0…

What sank MediaMath? Lots of lessons here about bad timing, leadership stumbles. ⁦Lara O'Reilly⁩ unpacks it all and then some: businessinsider.com/mediamath-adte…

I take no pleasure — ok, I take some pleasure — in reporting this. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Changes hit The Wall Street Journal during new EIC Emma Tucker's first week. Veteran managing editor Karen M. Pensiero is departing after 37+ years, and there's a new chief of staff, also coming in from London businessinsider.com/editorial-chan…

'We inherited the list of words that John Wardle, the game's creator, had curated. There are enough five-letter words to last until 2027.' businessinsider.com/new-york-times…

Feels like a lot of planes are almost running into each other these days, they should stop doing that nytimes.com/2023/02/05/us/…

More layoffs news in media - this time, they're hitting Dow Jones/WSJ
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NEW from Reed Alexander and me: Inside the recent turmoil at Cheddar, where an editorial 'identity crisis' and misfired social media strategy divided the newsroom and drove staffers to the exits
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Produced by the Hearst-owned food brand Delish, 'Budget Eats' was the kind of digital success story that traditional magazine giants crave.

But on October 6, June Jiuxing Xie — the host of the show — was fired.👇
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man, something about glossy food-magazine-entering-youtube/new media-drama is so ...delicious
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