Newspaper Reporter Named Worst Career of 2013. Sad.

The old Newsweek building at 444 Madison Avenue, back when Newsweek was on top of the world (journalistically, at least). And then the unfortunate #hashtag slapped on the cover.

I have no doubt that few readers will stick around for the “new chapter,” as Tina calls it (let’s be honest). But this ode to the magazine that was is worth reading, if sad.

Michael Isikoff on his 1998 Monica Lewinsky Scoop

An Oral History of Newsweek

The Battle of Brand X

Newsweek on Civil Rights

Christopher Dickey on Covering War

David Ansen on Covering AIDs

Photos: 80 Years of Newsweek Schwag

Perspectives (ie Shit Newsweek Said)

Starting Jan 16, Instagram has the right to sell your photos. Without payment. No opting-out. (CNET) #instadouche

My piece in today's business section: How to Solve the Gender Wage Gap? Learn to Speak Up. (New York Times)

Is it marketing or journalism? Does it matter? The case of Tumblr's 'Storyboard' | Capital New York

Mashable: How Social Networks Are Redefining Journalism

The Atlantic: The Problem with Women Who XO at Work

In which Rachel Simmons and I take on the Watergate of modern email etiquette: the workplace XO. 

XO has surfaced in the digital correspondence of everyone from Arianna Huffington to Nora Ephron. Wendy Williams, the talk-show host, says she wishes she could stop using it, but just can’t. Anne-Marie Slaughter—foreign-policy wonk, Princeton professor, and she who still can’t have it all—doesn’t xo, but knows several professional women who do. In Diane Sawyer’s newsroom, staffers say, the anchor uses xo so frequently that its omission can spark a major panic. 

“I feel like xo has taken on its own kind of life,” says Karli Kasonik, a Washington consultant.

“I do it, most women I know do it,” says Asie Mohtarez, a writer and social-media editor.

“In my field, you almost have to use it,” says Kristin Esposito, a yoga instructor in New York.

"The Tumblr, for all its webbiness, embraced a kind of back-to-the-future sensibility: a suggestion of what campaign messaging looked like in previous ages, when it played out on the community level."

The Atlantic, on the Obama campaign Tumblr — perhaps the best piece yet on political memedom, the uniqueness of Tumblr as a platform, and why it makes sense in the political sphere. (Only thing missing: a quote from Liba Rubenstein!) 

Iconic Newsweek covers from the 60s and 70s. RIP.

A sad day for news magazines. After 80 years in print, NEWSWEEK's last paper edition will be Dec 31.

So many years of so many bad decisions. We always said the Newsweek Tumblr would outlast the print edition. #RIP

PITCH: Is Tumblr the Next Time, Inc?

Guys! Tumblr has pitched a panel at the Online News Association conference this weekend, about the future of journalism — and whether news outlets like Tumblr & Facebook can compete with old media. Please **VOTE** to hear us! This is all user-decided. We <3 our users! Read More

Panelists:
Jessica Bennett, Executive Editor, Tumblr
Xana O’Neill, Online Editor, WNYC
Allie Townsend, Editor, Facebook Stories

(GIF by Jason Oberholtzer)

"When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out."

New Yorker editor David Remnick, on how good reporting can mean calling a source so many times that “the person [decides] it’s better to give you the time than to endure the constant assaults of your calls and emails.”

Storyboard: David Remnick on the Art of the Profile

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Let Your Interviews Be Heard… And Seen

Old tapes. New unheard stories. We bring journalists’ lost interviews back to life via podcast, radio and YouTube. The future of journalism? Remixing the past. What do you have on tape? Tell us what’s in your archives. 

Attn: Journalist friends! This is pretty awesome. Brought to you by former Newsweeker and ABC Producer David Gerlach.

Beautiful, haunting NYT Mag piece by my friend and former Newsweek colleague Jeneen Interlandi, about her bipolar father and the merry-go-round mental health system that fails so many like him.

"I’d been the one telling young women at my lectures that you can have it all and do it all, regardless of what field you are in. Which means I’d been part, albeit unwittingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life (and be thin and beautiful to boot)."

WHY WOMEN STILL CAN’T HAVE IT ALL (The Atlantic)