by Kayleigh Barber | Jan 20, 2021 | Media
Most Americans can claim that the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice and politically charged riots have been top of mind at some point in the past year. These are defining, dividing as well as uniting stories for the country. But these stories are also much more...
by Kayleigh Barber | Jan 19, 2021 | Media
The Week Jr. was set to debut in the U.S. last spring, but the day that the first run of the children’s magazine went to the printer, much of the country went into lockdown. That threw a wrench not only in the magazine’s editorial plans, but also in the marketing...
by Kayleigh Barber | Jan 15, 2021 | future of work
Escaping urban areas was a common lifestyle choice for many city dwellers at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in mid-March. It was done in an attempt to outrun the virus, as well as to give themselves more space in a new remote working world, trading cityscapes...
by Kayleigh Barber | Jan 11, 2021 | Media
Protocol, like most media companies in the spring of 2020, took a hit — and one that was especially acute just months past launching in February. It faced a coronavirus-induced layoffs of 13 employees —about half of its staff — driven by abruptly constricted...
by Kayleigh Barber | Jan 8, 2021 | Media
In 2020, a flurry of brands took to social media to share their support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Then, needing to walk the walk, some of those brands started spending more of their media budgets on Black-focused media brands in shows of support — and to...