The New York Times’ most popular recipe is…Old-Fashioned Beef Stew?
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Friday, February 10, 2023
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The New York Times’ most popular recipe is…Old-Fashioned Beef Stew?“All of your other piddly recipes are just David in the face of beef stew. It keeps trucking.” By Luke Winkie. |
What We’re Reading
Washington Post / Ron Charles
What readers hate most in books — from dreams to italics →
“Gianna LaMorte is tired of seeing ‘someone escape a small town and rent a large house, get a job at a local paper or make a living gardening.'”
The Ringer / Bryan Curtis
The ins and outs of a week spent on Super Bowl radio row →
“This is the place where interviews with famous people are bartered for product plugs, the place that turns Columbia J-school professors into flesh-eating zombies if they get close.”
The Boston Globe / Dan Kennedy
Local news startups are overcoming the evils of corporate chain ownership →
“What if corporate chain ownership could somehow be made to disappear? As it happens, there are several Massachusetts examples that offer lessons for what happens when the slash-and-burn out-of-town owner sells to local interests.”
The New York Times / Alex Williams
Marianne Mantell, who helped pave the way for audiobooks, dies at 93 →
“Although poets had been recorded before as vanity efforts, it was Barbara and I who realized that there was an audience of literate people and made a business out of it.”
The New Yorker / Kyle Chayka
Is AI art stealing from artists? →
“We're not litigating image by image, we're litigating the whole technique behind the system.”
The New York Times / Tiffany Hsu
Influence networks in Russia misled European users, TikTok says →
Also: “Less than half a percent of the 145.5 million ‘learn more’ tags seen by viewers exposed to potential Holocaust denial content translated into a click on the tag, which led to a page of authoritative resources.”
The Guardian / Jess Cartner-Morley
How Architectural Digest became the new Vogue →
“Videos of celebrity home tours are bringing bigger and younger audiences to publications that were once a niche interest for the sort of people who can recognize an Eero Saarinen chair at 50 paces.”
CNBC / Lillian Rizzo
News Corp announces it will cut 1,250 positions this year →
That’s 5% of its workforce.
Press Gazette / Bron Maher
Here’s a good estimate of the highest-earning Substacks →
At the top: Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American,” which Press Gazette estimates is making at least $5 million a year.
The New York Times / Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris
Striking HarperCollins workers reach tentative agreement with publisher →
“Three months since its members began to strike, the HarperCollins union on Thursday reached a tentative agreement with the publishing company that includes an increase in minimum salaries across an array of jobs and a one-time bonus of $1,500 to union members.”
Semafor / Liz Hoffman and Ben Smith
Forbes, Russia hawks, and an $800 million deal in peril →
“Is Forbes a strategic asset?”
Platformer / Zoë Schiffer and Casey Newton
Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count →
“It has now been seven weeks since Twitter added public view counts for every tweet. At the time, Musk promised that the feature would give the world a better sense of how vibrant the platform is….Almost two months later, though, view counts have had the opposite effect, emphasizing how little engagement most posts get relative to their audience size.”
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