Victor Navasky
The Nation publisher emeritus
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- Date of Birth
- 07/05/1932 (77 years old)
- Place of Birth
- New York, NY
- Undergrad
- Swarthmore College
- Graduate
- Yale Law School
- Neighborhood
- Upper West Side
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Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers (Columbia Journalism Review)
Posted: 10:49AM on Mar 17, 2010On March 16, 2010, the Columbia Journalism Review hosted a benefit performance of the play Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers , by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons.
Watching the Media Watchdogs (The Nation via Yahoo! News)
Posted: 7:18AM on Mar 15, 2010The Nation -- Our media watchdogs require close watching. It's been an article of faith for Nation editors and readers since the founding of the magazine.
Greg Mitchell: Watching the Watchdogs: My New Media Job (The Huffington Post)
Posted: 10:17AM on Mar 15, 2010As some of you know, I've been blogging largely about media/politics matters here at HuffPost for the past couple of years, and served as the...
Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks (The New Yorker)
Posted: 9:11PM on Mar 07, 2010goatTitle--AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY The poets George Green, Joshua Mehigan, Linda Pastan, and David Yezzi join Billy Collins for a reading from “Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds,” which was edited by Collins. (Central Park W. at 79th St. 212-769-5200. March 10 at . . .
WEB/TECH: Survey Finds: Slack Editing on Magazine Web Sites (All About Jazz)
Posted: 4:53AM on Mar 03, 2010The only thing standard about magazines Web sites is that there are no standards. That is the chief finding of a research project conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review, which surveyed 665 consumer magazines on the practices and profitability of their Web sites. There isn't yet a generally accepted set of norms for this new medium, said Victor Navasky, chairman of the magazine. There's ...
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Posted: 4:35AM on Mar 01, 2010New York Times "There isn't yet a generally accepted set of norms for this new medium," says Victor Navasky , chairman of Columbia Journalism Review, which which surveyed 665 consumer magazines on the practices and profitability of their Web sites. "There's chaos out there."
Apple iPad Is Too Late to Save Print Publishing (PC World)
Posted: 2:59PM on Mar 02, 2010The ship for most publications may have already sailed -- because people are too used to getting subpar content for free.
Can the Apple iPad save 'print' publishing? (Network World)
Posted: 2:15AM on Mar 02, 2010It seems Conde Nast is embracing the Apple iPad as its one and true savior. Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, GQ, Glamour, and Wired are all getting gussied up for Apple's WonderPad, according to the New York Times. Hey if you're gonna do it, might as well start with the best.
Survey Finds Slack Editing on Magazine Web Sites (The Tuscaloosa News)
Posted: 3:14AM on Mar 01, 2010STEPHANIE CLIFFORD A survey conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review found that magazines' Web sites reflect a trade-off of standards for online speed.
Digital Media: 'There's Chaos Out There' (The New York Observer)
Posted: 7:27AM on Mar 01, 2010In news that will probably surprise no one, a Columbia Journalism Review survey has found "slack" standards among magazines' web operations. The Times reports: Copy-editing requirements online were less stringent than those in print at 48 percent of the magazines. And 11 percent did not copy-edit online-only articles at all. A similar trend held with fact-checking. Although 57 percent of the ...