Posts tagged as Memos
Tribune CEO's Memo Says Today's 'New York Times' Story is All Lies
If you have not read the new David Carr piece on Tribune Company, I suggest you do, and I promise that even if you do not usually care about words like "newspapers" and "Chicago" and "bankruptcy" and "a collection of carnival workers," you will still enjoy it mightily. And then you can come read the memo that Tribune's Randy Michaels put out companywide last night in response. It follows, and it's really ridiculous. READ MORE
'New York Times' Bans the Word 'Tweet'
Phil Corbett, the latest standards editor at the Times (maybe the greatest job in the world?), has issued a proclamation! Yesterday, the following memo went out, asking writers to abstain from the invented past-tense and other weird iterations of the magical noun-verb "Twitter." His case isn't terrible, actually-and he offers this terrifying vision: "Someday, 'tweet' may be as common as 'e-mail.'" Oh dear. Well, read for yourself and decide. READ MORE
Crazy Memos: Arthur Sulzberger Flips Out on 'Wall Street Journal'
Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and his trusty CEO Janet Robinson sent out a snide, braggy memo congratulating the Wall Street Journal on the launch of its New York section. It is wildly out of whack in terms of tone; yet it is sort of admirably hostile, in a way? Except that then doesn't one figure that such a hostile "big barking dog" strategy really just mean you're weaker than anyone expects? Read for yourself and decide. I guess I least enjoy having the ad demographics displayed as a measure of worth. I'm sure the paper does have rich readers! And here's the rest of us, dragging down your market demo. Sorry! READ MORE
Staff Memo Re: Office Pumping Stations
To: The Staff of I Can Haz LLC
From: Choire Sicha
Re: My Free Expression READ MORE
I Mean, Really, "J-Setting"? I Spent Half An Hour On Wikipedia Figuring Out What That Is.
From: Balk
Subject: Listen up, douchebags
To: notes@theawl.com
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 3:30 PM READ MORE
Nick Denton asks Gawker Editor To Step Down, Purchases Cityfile
Nick Denton has de facto fired Gawker editor Gabriel Snyder; and announced the purchase of Cityfile. On Friday, Snyder announced Gawker's record traffic. Remy Stern is now the editor of Gawker. (Stern, a founder of Cityfile, has desired the top Gawker job since at least 2004.) Two memos circulated in-house, dated one minute apart. READ MORE
Arthur Sulzberger: "Why do readers continue to embrace print?"
The latest in-house memo from Times honchos Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Janet Robinson is just out. In it, they explain that their circulation revenue has increased-no wait, they carefully say that circulation revenues "make up a greater percentage" of their income than it has historically. This is, how you say, a way of saying that advertising is way down, perhaps! Anyway, read on, if you're interested in the future of the Times. READ MORE
"ANDY WARD I LOVE YOU"
The bar has been set ever-higher in the advanced bracket competition of the "Someone quit" memo. (Not so many of those these days, right?) This outpouring from GQ editor Jim Nelson, on the departure of his editor Andy Ward, is truly something to see, including as it does: "WE'RE NOT KIDDING, WE ARE GRATEFUL, WE ARE SAD."
Memo: Arthur Sulzberger Explains $1 Billion In 'New York Times' Debt To Staff
Arthur Sulzberger and New York Times CEO Janet Robinson have issued a second statement to the newsroom. This one is about the company's debt! READ MORE
Arthur Sulzberger Goes Faux-Transparent
The publisher and CEO of the New York Times have followed in the path of the rest of the TMZ-laden world and taken it upon themselves to Set The Record Straight about things at their company in a company-wide email. Or, you know, one could say: the top honchos at the New York Times issued a company-wide press release this morning! It begins: "The month of May came and went and, contrary to the prediction of one writer, we did not stop printing The New York Times." Ha, they mean Michael Hirschorn's silly/not silly piece, and now his head is going to be swollen. Also? They are all LA LA LA "DIFFICULT TIMES" LA LA. So that means they do not get it. Oh and this memo is basically all about how they screwed their staff and the unions and fired people oops, sorry everyone! READ MORE
