Is 'The Daily' Hiring All Wrong?
The News Corp.-owned, super-secret iPad venture called “The Daily” has been snapping up journos left and right (most recently the New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones, who will serve as culture editor). But maybe Murdoch’s going about this thing all wrong.
“Frere-Jones is a top-notch writer; there’s no argument there. But just what he and several other recent hires bring to the table—er, tablet—is questionable,” writes Andrew Wallenstein at PaidContent. “With all due respect to the fine journalists who are moving over to The Daily—jeez, even the name sounds oldfangled—there’s little in their backgrounds that suggests they can create something ahead of the curve.
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