New York Times ArtsBeat blog ends its run
Nine years after the New York Times debuted ArtsBeat, its blog devoted to online cultural coverage, the paper has announced its retirement. Yesterday, in a 23,231st and final post, Times assistant… Read more »
Fake Penguin publicist catfishes bloggers (to get reviews for her own book)
Beware a publicist bearing false credentials. The YA blog world is dealing with a catfishing situation. A blogger named Jon at Bookish Antics, writes of the odd bait and switch (that,… Read more »
One woman spends a year reading a book for each nation
Last month on Publishing Perspectives, Olivia Snaije interviewed and profiled Ann Morgan, a woman who—from January 1 to December 31 of 2012—“set herself the challenge to spend one year reading a… Read more »
When is a blog not journalism?
The right to anonymously publish political commentary without government oversight is one of American journalism’s most sacred tenets, but now that blogs abound, the lines are being blurred. Dennis Bailey’s Cutler… Read more »
Bill Lasarow, publisher and co-editor of Visual Arts Source and former Huffington Post contributor, has gone on strike to protest the site’s practice of not paying for much of the… 2 / Read more »