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Tablets instead of textbooks, and other education ideas from Candidate Quinn
Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the early frontrunner in this year's race for mayor, today proposed that the city's school system ditch textbooks in favor of tablets as part of a broader speech about education policy.
"I'm proposing that we move all of our 1,700 schools from a system of textbooks to a system of tablets," she said today, during a wide-ranging speech at the New School. More
(1)Amid 'Newsweek' funerary rites, two high-profile departures: Peter Boyer, Rebecca Dana
Capital has learned that Rebecca Dana, previously a senior editor at Newsweek and one of the magazine's young stars, left the magazine last month to work on a book for Amy Einhorn at Penguin/Putnam. Her first book, a memoir called Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde, is due out from Penguin/Putnman in January and covers her time working for Brown. (Further departures, as well as layoffs, are expected, and if you know of any, please drop us a line!) More
Magazines see some hope (but not much) from digital editions in 2012
The latest magazine circulation report tells a familiar story: Newsstand sales continue to slide, while digital editions continue to pick up steam, even if they only generate a sliver of sales throughout the industry. More
Murdoch's tablet newspaper 'The Daily' makes it official, announces layoffs for 29 percent of its staff
50 full-time employees, or about 29 percent of the publication's full-time staff, are being let go while the sports section will begin to rely more heavily on third-party content and the opinion pages will be absorbed by the news section. More
(1)Arianna's new tablet magazine, 'Huffington,' is a lot like a print magazine
"Certainly from the beginning we wanted to do something that felt like a print magazine," said Klenert. "We've started smart, small and nimble and we'll grow from there." "A weekly felt a nice compromise to the frenetic rush of a daily and the detachment of a monthly, so we could be on the news but not necessarily just of the news," said O'Brien. "We felt this was a nice counterpart to the web experience we offer readers." More
