the lede

hey guys! so although i no longer write/report and i no longer work at a newspaper, i'm still a news junkie and i love the nyt's lede blog. although i don't read it all too often (i'm mostly on gawker hehehe) i think it's pretty cool that the times is addressing media happenings on the main part of their website. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/

totally unrelated, for those who don't know, i'm working at hearst magazines right now doing a sort of design fellowship, which is awesome! and because i've only worked at newspapers and have heard about newspapers trying to find the youth and to make a better website and, having experienced it myself, putting ads on the fronts of sections (san diego union-trib's sports section YUCK) i didn't realize that magazines were also in trouble. we just had a meeting with the prez of hearst, and she was trying to build up all of what hearst does and everything and i guess the sales and marketing side of magazines are really struggling to get advertisers and make enough money without losing customers to tabloid-ish weekly magazines. it's kinda cool to get another perspective of the media business. hope everyone is doing well!