Tag: Readership
Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?
My first job in media was as an assistant at The American Prospect, a small political magazine in Washington, D.C., that offered a promising foothold in journalism. I helped with the print order, mailed checks to writers—after receiving lots of e-mails asking, politely, Where is my money?—and ran the intern program. This last responsibility allowed me a small joy: every couple of weeks, a respected journalist would come into the office for a brown-bag lunch in our conference room,
Lois Libien, Who Found a Readership With Household Tips, Dies at 87
Lois Libien, who broke ground in the 1960s as a female journalist but who attracted her widest readership by providing household hints in books and a nationally syndicated newspaper column, died on July 25 in River Vale, N.J. She was 87.
Her death, at an assisted living center, where she had been treated for Alzheimer’s disease, was caused by renal failure, her daughter, Jenny Libien, said.
In a varied career that included the authorship of two sexy novels and then,