Big Changes Ahead in Journalism

Since its recent $2.8 billion acquisition of New York-based Time Inc. in February 2018, Meredith Corp. is now the largest media conglomerate and magazine publishing company in the U.S., owning such legacy titles as People, Real Simple, Better Homes & Gardens, Family Circle, Martha Stewart Living, The Magnolia Journal (recently named Magazine Launch of the…

On the Rise of the Reader, or Journalism in a Digital Age

In this digital news age, there is need for the journalist as a "truth-teller, sense-maker, explainer.” That was the message conveyed by Katharine Viner, deputy editor of the Guardian and editor-in-chief of Guardian Australia, during the A.N. Smith lecture in Melbourne on Oct. 9, 2013. This is my review and retort of her presentation and…