Caroline Miller Claws Back With Forgettable News Venture
Whatever happened to Caroline Miller, once the EIC of New York before a brief stint running luxe fashion mag Absolute? She’s finally resurfaced, tangled up in Web 2.0 as the head of news aggregation site Newser.com (which happens to be offline at the moment). She’s teamed with Vanity Fair’s Michael Wolff and Highbeam CEO Patrick Spain to create what’s supposedly a computer algorithm-based news dump that has human hands weighing in to play a role we’re still a little unsure on. It’ll be just like Google News, but with an obnoxious editor who insists on pointing out which items you should be discussing over chai lattes. [PC]
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Yeesh! She couldn’t handle Variety, nearly drove New York off a cliff, and now this? Wasn’t the point of her NY Mag severance package to guarantee we’d never have to think of the ole ratbag again? What does Sprout think about it?
[...] Miller and Andrew Essex left the masthead of Absolute long ago – she to Newser.com, he to Droga5 – when it folded last February. Then New York Home publisher Hour Media [...]
[...] Miller and Andrew Essex left the masthead of Absolute long ago – she to Newser.com, he to Droga5 – when it folded last February. Then New York Home publisher Hour Media [...]