Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Portfolio magazine axed

Sad news from Condé Nast as it closes Portfolio magazine.  I discovered Portfolio late last year when I stumbled on a dissection of the Wall Street collapse by Liar’s Poker author Michael Lewis. It was riveting and very well written – as you would expect, I guess. The reason for the closure seems to be plummeting ad […]

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Ways to survive the media recession, part 5

Part 1;   Part 2;   Part 3;   Part 4;   Part 5; At last, the end of the journey and a handy summary. But first, Recovering Journalist Mark Potts has a very good post on Life After Journalism that is really worth reading. A former 20-year journalist (hmm – like me), Mark Potts is now “an entrepreneur and […]