Former Britannica.com editor Charlie Madigan:
This was inevitable. As a senior editor at Britannica.com, where I went to work after decades as a newspaper editor, I had high hopes for the idea of giving away knowledge.
Talking about the public’s right, and need, to know with some of those folks was like talking to frogs about poetry.
Does this signal the beginning of the end of these kinds of books?
That email reads a lot like an account of what’s happened to a lot of tv news divisions, having lost the protection of a divide between journalism and entertainment marketing.