The New Media Diva

OJR shutting down too?

Well here’s a headscratcher: The Annenberg School of Journalism is shutting down the Online Journalism Review. Editor Robert Niles posted the announcement today: After a decade, the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication has suspended publication of OJR. One of OJR’s goals over the years has been to help mid-career journalists make a [...]

eXile shutting down?

At first I thought it was one of its jokes, but apparently Russian satire magazine eXile is shutting down. I say shutting down and not “being shut down” because, according to founder Mark Ames, its western financial backers flew the coop after the Russian officials launched an audit of the magazine’s offices, leaving them without [...]