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Time Inc. exec makes the leap to iPad startup Flipboard
The New York Post is reporting that digital journalist Josh Quittner is leaving Time magazine to join startup Flipboard as its new editorial director. Flipboard is a personalized social magazine app for the iPad. You can enter your Facebook and Twitter accounts and follow any number of sites' RSS feeds, and the app presents all the tweets, status updates and articles to you as a digital magazine. The fact that Quittner, who covered the digital revolution for 15 years at Time Inc, is leaving underscores a tectonic shift happening in the traditional publishing industry. It seems that those in the know feel secure in their beliefs about the future of publishing enough to leave established outlets for what they think is the future of the industry. Like many, I've said it again and again, publishers need to embrace the future if they want to keep up with all the ways people consume media nowadays. When veterans like Quittner, who also worked at Fortune and the now defunct (best magazine ever) Business 2.0, start jumping ship, it seems apparent that a tipping point from print to digital is closer than one thinks. [via iPodNN]
David Pogue and Josh Quittner trade barbs over iPhone
Would you believe: David Pogue, one of Cupertino's favoritest of all tech journalists (and a king among Apple fanboys) gets in an editorial fistfight with a hard-bitten and especially condemnatory Josh Quittner (whom many know as the editor of Business 2.0). It starts out as a blog post by Josh "reviewing the reviewers" of the iPhone, harshing on Pogue for his biases -- he's written a number of Apple books, after all, and is known far and wide for his love affair of all things Steve (TM). Naturally Quittner doesn't fess to being jealous that, like the rest of us, his publication didn't get an early iPhone; the embittered post turns into a comment spar with Pogue, quick to defend his honor -- which turns into an all out editorial debate on editorial. Bias schmias, why the hell isn't anyone talking about how the early iPhone reviews just didn't really say very much, anyway?Read - Quittner attacks, "[Pogue] should not be allowed to review Apple stuff. I mean, the man has a whole side business ... explaining how to wring the most out of your Apple products!"Read - Pogue defends, "I don't know whether you're deliberately ignoring the facts or you just don't do your homework. Either way, you're off-base."Read - Quittner attacks again, "What you are doing is wrong, flat-out, flat-panel-for-non-dummies wrong, David."
