While COVID-19 and unrest over policing excesses has certainly affected readership and publishing, the Big Five publishing conglomerates have been struggling for a while. The reason? The digital revolution. In a couple of articles, the NY Times analyzed those struggles (7/16/2020 and 7/17). The first article can be summarized as women beginning to take over higher positions; the second is more about black women’s struggles to enter the Big Five publishing hierarchy. While these articles portray ...
Published on July 30, 2020 03:23