I'm grateful not to be at the 2011 Digital Book World conference this week for two reasons: 1) The streets of Manhattan look like a root beer float. 2) Most conferences on digital innovation that cater to book publishers are...

Smoke came out of my ears when I saw Betty White recite yet another deflated joke about her libido at last night's Emmy Awards. I know, she was referring to Jon Hamm, but still: Why has this incredible woman -- six time Emmy-award winner and pioneer for women in the...

This morning I had a love fest with Harper's magazine. The June issue includes a fantastic story by Kurt Vonnegut, a perversely entertaining Madoff telephone transcript, and a weird and dreamy diary excerpt by Werner Herzog. See! I said to myself, gazing at the woman playing Pac-man next to...

Do I really need to know that Metro France let 3 reporters go, or that PCM the owner of the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant is downsizing?

 No, I don't. And neither do you.

 Ever since I subscribed to themediaisdying on Twitter I get dozens of updates a day reporting layoffs...

Today Google announced the release of a new voice recognition application for its search software on the iPhone. The software, which is said to be released as early as Friday, can tell you where the nearest Starbucks is, answer factual questions like "How high is Mount Everest?" It can...

Flipping through the pages of this month's O Magazine, I was shocked to read Gabrielle LeBlanc's "Worth a Read" column. Could it be that Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers, which examines extraordinary achievers, does not include a single woman? Bill Gates, Mozart, Robert Oppenheimer, and the Beatles are among Gladwell's...