TVNewser: Take the poll: Who is the next Oprah? MediaJobsDaily: The Washington Post Co. laid off staffers today from washingtongpost.com. Reuters: Hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, which now owns a 14.64 percent stake in The New York Times Co., cut its stake from 16.38 percent in September. Guardian: ...

AP logo2.png After cutting 90 people from its news department this week, shuttering four bureaus, the Associated Press today announced that it had expanded the roles of six news editors and appointed four interim regional photo editors "as part of a restructuring of U.S. news management." The news editors ...

the_new_york_times_logo-thumb-200x29-4502.png Today saw the premiere issue of the much-discussed Chicago edition of The New York Times. The Times has been encroaching on regional news since it started Bay Area coverage last month, and the launch in Chicago is further indication that Arthur Sulzberger ...

aol logo.jpg Yesterday AOL revealed that it was looking to cut one-third of its staff as it heads towards its spin off from parent company Time Warner and looks to trim $300 million from its annual operating costs. But, as our sister blog WebNewser pointed out today, today's Wall Street Journal actually ...

Cover_November 2009.jpg Despite recent layoffs, Forbes Media is still moving forward. ForbesLife, the bimonthly Forbes' spin-off focused on culture and lifestyle, has put Lorraine Cademartori at the helm of the publication in the role of executive editor. She has spent the previous 11 years as managing ...

businessweek cover new.jpg To say it's been a rough week for BusinessWeek would be an understatement. Yesterday, the axe fell hard, and new parent Bloomberg LP has cut around 130 people for the business mag's staff -- including 60 to 70 from the edit side. Among those getting pink slips were big names ...

250.jpg The Columbia Journalism Review just happened to catch some similarities between an October 2008 cover for The Economist and a May 2009 edition of The Atlantic. Besides the typeface, the pictures on the covers are almost identical: both show the shadow outline of man peering over the edge of ...

fortune_20magazine_20cover.jpg You'd never know it from the cuts across the board being made at publishers like Time Inc. and Forbes Media, but some of these companies' titles are seeing a upswing in their readership. Lucia Moses of MediaWeek reported this week that Fortune, The Economist, Smart Money, ...

oprah.jpg Yesterday, it became clear that the rumors were true: Oprah Winfrey will be leaving her network TV show in 2011. Tim Bennett, CEO of Winfrey's production company Harpo, sent a letter to the local television stations that broadcast her show yesterday, letting them know that "The Oprah Winfrey ...

mediabistro caught up with Notional CEO Ricky Van Veen at the launch party for the company last night at the IAC building. Van Veen - co-founder and former editor-in-chief of CollegeHumor.com - told us Notional "is a television and web production company with the DNA of an internet company." The company's ...