Change Your Act. Change Your Audience – Career Tips For The New Reality
The Gist: As traditional career moves & strategies become disrupted, here’s experts’ advice on keeping it moving – and your career thriving.
Source Article Here: Forbes
Author: William Arruda

 

Nina Simone: “You Didn’t Know Which Way She’d Go”
The Gist: An interview with Liz Garbus, director of the current Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary about Nina Simone, What Happened, Miss Simone?
Source Article Here: Screen Daily
Author: Jeremy Kay

 

How Alan Rickman Turned The Action Genre Upside-Down
The Gist: Rickman, whose death at 69 was announced today, had never been in a film before his star-making turn in Die Hard – and what a career-launching turn it was.
Source Article Here: Vulture
Author: Adam Sternbergh

Digital Publishing: Meet Your Audience & Innovate…Or Else
The Gist: With $140 billion being spent on digital advertising, many outlets want to set up shop for a piece of it – but not all digital publishers are up to the task, and here’s why…..
Source Article Here: Talking New Media
Author: Antoine Boulin

Broadcast News: The Top 6 Topics – By Airtime – Of 2015
The Gist: Winter weather was 2015’s biggest story by airtime minutes, ahead of the economy – which placed last. Andrew Tyndall crunched the coverage minutes by each broadcast network, and the Top 5 news correspondents.
Source Article Here: TV Newser
Author: Mark Joyella

2016 National Magazine Awards Finalists
The Gist: The American Society of Magazine Editors nominated 67 media outlets across 21 categories this year. See the categories, which magazines nabbed noms –and for which stories – as well as the nominees for magazine of the year.
Source Article Here: WWD
Author: Alexandra Steigrad

 

The 88th Academy Award Nominations Announced
The Gist: Here’s the nominees in all categories.
Source Article Here: Oscars.org

 

FLASHBACK READ

A Silver Lake Family’s Descent Into The Jonestown Massacre
The Gist: This cover story from 2008, From Silver Lake To Suicide, chronicles one Los Angeles family’s tragic deception, ending in the Nov. 1978 mass murder-suicide of 918 people, via cyanide-laced fruit punch, in Guyana.
Source Article: LA Weekly
Author: Barry Isaacson’