layoffs

Maxim Layoffs

Hamilton Nolan · 10/23/09 01:43PM

A tipster tells us Maxim fired three people in the art and photo departments today.

More Layoffs Coming at Forbes?

Hamilton Nolan · 10/23/09 12:44PM

In your foreboding Friday media column: Rumors of impending Forbes layoffs, more details on the Conde Nast Traveler cuts this week, an editor quits over her commute(!), and a former AP newsman kills himself.

ALM Should Be Ashamed of Its Bathrooms

Hamilton Nolan · 10/20/09 12:12PM

In your dangerous Tuesday media column: A media employee cries for help from the office bathroom, more details on yesterday's Glamour layoffs, a dangerous liberal media pumpkin, and a newspaper gets cheaper, on purpose.

A Day of Reckoning at Conde Nast

Hamilton Nolan · 10/19/09 03:13PM

We hear Wired had its own round of editorial layoffs today. What's going on at Conde Nast? A very bad Monday. In a very bad month. Let's review:

Computer Beats Humans at Formulaic Crap

Hamilton Nolan · 10/19/09 12:20PM

In your malicious Monday media column: computers replace sportswriters (finally), rumored layoffs at W mag and Lucky, a new way for death to save the media, and the salvation of publishing arrives.

Unwiring Wired

Ryan Tate · 10/15/09 06:50PM

For a digital bible, Wired has been turning surprisingly analog over the past year. The latest regressions: The publication just fired two top editors from Wired.com and may soon lose the founders of Reddit.com.

eBay Layoffs: Fewer Than 60, Company Says

Ryan Tate · 10/14/09 01:47PM

eBay has quantified the layoffs we've been writing about, saying the online auction company's upcoming restructuring will "impact fewer than 60 positions," in the words of a spokesman, with details provided internally within the week.

Flacks Love This Businessweek Deal

Hamilton Nolan · 10/14/09 01:07PM

In your overstuffed Wednesday media column: a PR man cheers Bloomberg's latest purchase, Calvin Trillin says crotchety things, the New Yorker hires(!) somebody, Brides loses advertisers, and the Washington Post poaches from HuffPo, for a change.