Changes:
New York magazine "unveiled a new nymag.com home page design with a cleaner, more modern look" Tuesday. The redesign coincided with the launch of the publication's digital subscription product and a "new network-wide navigation."
"Ambitious, Inventive Journalism":
Laurene Powell Jobs's Emerson Collective has purchased Pop-Up Magazine Productions for an undisclosed amount. The San Francisco-based company "publishes the online and offline California Sunday magazine," which is distributed in the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Emerson Collective offered series A funding to Axios in 2016 and assumed majority ownership of The Atlantic last year.
Ousted:
Following the resignation of longtime CEO Bob Sauerberg, Condé Nast will promote Condé Nast International Chairman/CEO Jonathan Newhouse to chairman of a consolidated company. The domestic division — whose titles include Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and GQ — lost $120 million in 2017. Newhouse is a first cousin to Donald Newhouse, president of parent company Advance Publications.
Pivoting:
Designed as a "a hub for shows and premium video content" to compete with YouTube, Facebook Watch has failed to meet commercial expectations and is now soliciting content for "post-college millennials around parenting age and older," including celebrity-driven reality and talk shows "that may be familiar to traditional TV viewers." According to a recent Piper Jaffray report, only 36 percent of teens use Facebook at least once a month.
Late Afternoon:
The Washington Post has launched Post Reports, a "20-minute daily news podcast that will publish every weekday at 5 p.m." Each episode will feature a general news recap followed by "a deeper dive-type segment" and "a third, lighter segment."
Network:
In a Monday tweet about CNN International, President Trump proposed the establishment of a "Worldwide Network to show the World the way we really are, GREAT!" The federal government operates several media outlets (including Voice of America and Radio y Television Marti) under the auspices of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and the Defense Media Activity.
"The Highest Bid":
Although Hungarian news site Origo once was known for its muckracking reporting, it has served as one of the most "dutiful media boosters" of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán since its 2015 sale to government sympathizers, "parroting his attacks on migrants and on George Soros." In the past three years, more than 400 media outlets have been acquired by Orbán's allies.
"Limits of Authority":
The British Parliament has seized "internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the U.S. social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs' questions." "We are in uncharted territory," said MP Damian Collins, who is overseeing the investigation.
'Duty to Warn':
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University has filed a lawsuit seeking immediate release of records concerning U.S. intelligence agencies’ compliance or non-compliance with their 'duty to warn” reporter Jamal Khashoggi of threats to his life or liberty. U.S. intelligence agencies are obligated to inform a potential victim of a kidnapping or murder if the agencies become aware of such a threat in the course of collecting or acquiring intelligence.
Return:
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly "ordered the White House to immediately reinstate CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's security pass, siding with the network in the first decision in a major lawsuit over press access." Kelly, a former chief counsel for national security to the Senate Judiciary Committee, was appointed to the judiciary by President Trump.
