Hello Subscriber Friend,

This is Karl Gibson and it’s been a while since I posted here; the site was evergreen during the hiatus since curating news and coming across good, deep-dive pieces is one of my passions.
(I tried to leave it looking nice!)

I also did not work any of the news cycles of the last 4 years in any editorial capacity, so the ‘fake news’ nadir is flat-out laughable as a general chant and you won’t find that division here. Listen, there are several unfortunate realities I take issue with privately within my industry – the diversity statistics are, frankly, appalling… I think click-bait/ratings/letting algorithms dictate cacophony and thinking that engineering will replicate editorial standards will take time to realign in the news business. The sooner the better.

Still, journalism is a high-wire profession, it is increasingly dangerous on many levels, and there is the talent who make up the editorial and literary worlds where standards still matter, new voices emerge, familiar voices grow tall, and readership and engagement are the crux of that community.

In 2014, I resigned from my job as Editor of Studio System News. I wrote about it here, That company’s site no longer exists, long after I left. This site was created in 2016 as a passion to continue news discovery and to reconnect with long-held and new subscribers again in real-time.

The 2 years I worked on Studio System News were personally powerful in still meeting and hearing from subscribers all over the world from curating AM and PM newsletters with a very specific, media-savvy audience. It was a great connection and there will be more.  There’s years prior that we go back – from 7 years at The Hollywood Reporter (THR) and a year with the NYT in Hollywood – so we’ve been around each other for a long time. It’s a pleasure to see everyone’s career evolution and creative paths fly. We’re still here!

Shortly after creating this site, I got a job as a metadata coordinator for over 20 film studios. My employer had a newsletter product as well. This newsletter wasn’t a competing product, but I  paused this newsletter on my own to avoid any potential conflicts since I was working on studio assets.

After finishing that season, a studio brought me on as a consultant for 6 weeks and it has now been 15 months.
18 months is the legal consulting limit in CA, so it’s a perfect time to start the newsletter again. There’s no set schedule yet, but I’d like to do one at the end of the week starting very soon!

Thanks for reading, thank you for your support, thanks for your patience. I also appreciate and thank many for the  communications of friendship, moral support and professionalism.

See you soon!
Sincerely,
Karl Gibson   EditorialKarl@gmail.com