#simon dumenco

[thebeautifulsentence]

This reminds me of that scene in 'Tom Sawyer' where Aunt Polly made Tom paint a fence, but Tom didn't really want to do it, so he launched a Kickstarter to train and employ citizen fence-painters to do it for him.

Simon Dumenco, AdAge

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The New (Me) Generation, DETAILS March 2006 Issue. Shot by Simon Dumenco.

[cmonstah]

Peter, you've had a long and admirable career in journalism with especially distinguished stints at the Washington Post and The New York Times (where, since this is an open letter, I'll point out that you were a Gerald Loeb Award winner and a Pulitzer finalist). You're an old-school shoe-leather reporter who has traveled the world to report and illuminate, so I can understand your unequivocal statement of "zero tolerance" for over-aggregation that shamelessly lifts from the work of others and steals page views from original-source websites. I also understand that it must be something of a shock -- as you read more and more past and present HuffPo posts -- to realize that unethical aggregation is essentially embedded in the very DNA of The Huffington Post.

Simon Dumenco's open letter to the Huffington Post. Smokin'.

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Car advertising has magazines speeding toward recovery

In his 2010 year-end media industry review, AdAge's Simon Dumenco argues that "it was idiotic to proclaim that magazines were dead because of major declines in glossy advertising during the Great Recession. Because, for one thing, magazines are deeply dependent on bedrock economic sectors like car manufacturing."

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