Random Media Notes

Isaac Fitzgerald

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August 18, 2009

Even more advertisers bail on Glenn Beck.

Salon lays off 20% of its editorial staff.

Reader’s Digest prepares to file for bankruptcy.

“Amish Newspaper Finds Success the Old-Fashioned Way”

Time Inc. purchases a house in Detroit to “serve as a base of operations” for covering the area.

Facebook buys the rights to nearly everything you do online for only $47.5 million.

BSKY

Isaac Fitzgerald

Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeneyâ€™s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed Newsâ€™ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.