media empire

  • Media Wipe Out

    Media Wipe Out

    Regular readers will know that I frequently refer to my burgeoning media empire as the hope and salvation of all humanity, you know, by way of my bank account. It seems to me, however, that I should qualify the term “media empire,” seeing as enough Neros are fiddling in traditional media to fill a string…

  • Gig Economy

    The Daily Beast recently published uber-editor Tina Brown’s provocative riff ?The Gig Economy,? which examines the trend toward freelance and contract work due to layoffs and other workplace woes. The media sector, long a safe-harbor for freelancers, has been particularly hard hit, which has resulted in, of course, more freelancers. With all the contraction in…