It was not exactly the snazziest 22 months of former Page Six scoop-meister Richard Johnson's career. And with today’s announcement that News Corp’s iPad tablet The Daily will officially fade to touch-screen black December 15, his tenure as west coast bureau chief is set to end with a whimper.
Adding insult to injury, Nikki Finke in her write-up this morning pours some more cold water on his biggest initial Flash splash:
In a memo to staff today, The Daily's Jesse Angelo and Greg Clayman ridiculously boasted that despite "great original reporting, excellent design and custom interactivity… Unfortunately we have not been able to build a big enough audience fast enough to make our business model work." (Great reporting? They posted a photo of me that was somebody else.)
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