How This Former Teen Vogue Editor Is Shaking Things Up at Architectural Digest

Amy Astley on digital expansion and strong social

By Emma Bazilian on Aug. 22, 2016 - 7:16 PM EDT

Specs Who Amy Astley Current gig Editor in chief, Architectural Digest Previous gig Editor in chief, Teen Vogue Age 49 Twitter @AmyTAstley Adweek: The September issue of Architectural Digest—your first full issue—recently hit…

Longtime Real Simple Editor Steps Down Amid Changes at Time Inc.

Kristin van Ogtrop joined the magazine in 2003

By Emma Bazilian on Aug. 22, 2016 - 11:44 AM EDT

Another changing of the guard is afoot at Time Inc., where Real Simple's longtime editor in chief Kristin van Ogtrop announced today that she'll soon be stepping down from her…

Gawker.com Is Shutting Down Despite Univision's Acquisition of Its Parent Company

Hearing scheduled today to finalize $135 million deal

By Christopher Heine on Aug. 18, 2016 - 1:22 PM EDT

After more than a decade of publishing content online, Gawker.com is shutting down next week, according to a post today by J.K. Trotter, a writer for the website. The development comes two…

Lifestyle Site LittleThings Makes a Bid for Gawker's Jezebel Blog

But there are problems with its $10 million offer

By Emma Bazilian on Aug. 16, 2016 - 3:53 PM EDT

"Uplifting" female lifestyle site LittleThings is making a bid for another big-name women's media outlet: Gawker's Jezebel blog. Today, LittleThings announced that it had put in a $10 million bid…

The New York Times Just Bought an Agency Focused on Virtual and Augmented Reality

Fake Love will help expand T Brand Studio

By Marty Swant on Aug. 12, 2016 - 10:51 AM EDT

You can't buy me love, but The New York Times just bought Fake Love. An experiential design studio with a focus on virtual reality and augmented reality, Fake Love will help…

Arianna Huffington Is Leaving The Huffington Post

Site co-founder will launch new company Thrive Global

By Chris Ariens on Aug. 11, 2016 - 10:28 AM EDT

Arianna Huffington is leaving The Huffington Post, a site she co-founded 11 years ago. Her new venture will take her right back to where it all started. I thought HuffPost would…

Bloomberg Media Names New Global Chief Revenue Officer

Keith Grossman was previously the company's head of U.S. sales

By Emma Bazilian on Aug. 10, 2016 - 8:30 AM EDT

Publishing vet Keith Grossman has had a busy few years. Just over two years ago, the Condé Nast alum left a more than decade-long career at Wired to join Bloomberg…

In the Midst of Its Sale to Verizon, Yahoo News Saw Record-Breaking Traffic

44 million video views during RNC and DNC

By Chris Ariens on Aug. 2, 2016 - 2:50 PM EDT

Yahoo News set out to produce an unconventional two weeks of convention coverage. In the end, the site generated 60 million page views from 236 stories, and 44 million streams…

Travel + Leisure's Openly Gay Editor Proudly Defends Ad That Some Attacked as 'Unnatural'

Tolerance goes 'hand in hand with a love of travel'

By David Griner on Jul. 29, 2016 - 7:25 PM EDT

The American Family Association calls it "unnatural and offensive," but a Hilton ad featuring a gay couple in Travel + Leisure is a point of tremendous pride for the magazine's…

8 Eye-Opening Digital Marketing Stats From the Past Week

GOP and Facebook are socially killing it

By Christopher Heine on Jul. 28, 2016 - 2:14 PM EDT

The media world for months has been all Facebook, Donald Trump and ad blocking, so why would the past week in digital marketing be any different? Check out these eight…

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