Maegan Carberry

W&W: Extreme Makeover: Newspaper Edition

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ January 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The blogosphere and twittersphere have been, um, a-twitter this week about the future of the newspaper world. The Chicago Tribune is going tabloid. Gasp! The Atlantic says the NY Times could be out of business by May. Oh no! The Seattle PI is going to either close or be sold. Oh my! BlogTalkRadio purchases a [...]

MSNBC, HuffPost Traffic Spikes

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 16, 2008 ⋅ One comment

With numbers like this from Nielsen Online, the online CPMs are bound to increase at a sharper rate than has previously been predicted (thanks, Editor & Publisher):
Brand — Aug. ‘08 Unique Audience (000) — Aug. ‘07 Unique Audience (000) 
MSNBC Digital Network — 52,212 — 29,564
Yahoo! News — 40,787 — 34,277
CNN Digital Network — 38,821 — [...]

Sarah Lacy Interviews Julia Allison

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ July 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Lacy is, you may recall, the woman who so obnoxiously interviewed Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW in March. (I was in the crowd that day and can attest that it was absolultely horrific.) She’s much better here with Julia Allison, who is dead on in her comments about companies needing to stop being afraid of new [...]

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