Media Industry News

Kevin Rose of Digg: The Most Famous Man on the Internet

By Max Chafkin | Nov 1, 2008

Digg founder Kevin Rose is having so much fun, you could almost miss the fact that he's setting himself up to be an Internet-age media mogul. Read more

Anything Could Happen

By Max Chafkin | Mar 1, 2008

Evan Williams's first little idea shifted the culture. (You can thank him for the ubiquity of blogging.) His new business, called Twitter, will be entering y... Read more

Richard Thalheimer on Selling Through Infomercials

By Richard Thalheimer | Mar 1, 2007

Infomercials 101 from the man who brought you massage chairs and white-noise machines. Read more

How We Did It: Suzanne Somers and Alan Hamel, Co-owners, Somers Licensing Cos.

By Suzanne Somers and Alan Hamel | Mar 1, 2006

Millions of women love and trust Suzanne Somers. That, as Somers and her husband, Alan Hamel, realized long ago, is the definition of a market niche, one the... Read more

Geraldine Laybourne on Work and Family

By Stephanie Clifford | Feb 24, 2006

I'm always impressed by business schools' women-in-business conferences. They must be among the most well-organized functions on the planet. How B-school ... Read more

How I Did It: Steve Sabol, President, NFL Films

Feb 1, 2006

With his very first documentary, in 1965, Steve Sabol of NFL Films became the designated mythmaker of pro football. Now the company is a $50 million family o... Read more

The Mouth Will Rise Again

By John Anderson | Feb 1, 2004

Fresh from losing several billion dollars and his job at AOL Time Warner, Ted Turner returns to his entrepreneurial roots: "Leave your gun at the cash regist... Read more