All posts by Lauren Shiplett

Op-ed: Finding the True Voice of ‘S-Town’

For many Southerners, the new podcast S-town feels like coming home. It starts with the drawl. Whether your hometown is a big city, or the smallest, one-stoplight corner of the world, you know at least one person with that sticky, sweet, distinctively southern drawl. It’s

The BizBeat – November 17, 2016

Editor’s note: After a brief, post-election hiatus, The BizBeat is back. While the media has become saturated with election and political news in the past week, the BizBeat will continue to focus on the business and organizational news affecting the media industry. Each Thursday, MediaFile’s Business section

The BizBeat – November 3, 2016

Each Thursday, MediaFile’s Business section publishes The BizBeat, an overview of the past week’s news in media organizations and industry. Have a tip, see something we missed, or want to put something on our radar? E-mail Shiplett@Mediafiledc.com. Making Headlines Gannett, the publisher of USA Today,

The BizBeat – October 27, 2016

Each Thursday, MediaFile’s Business section publishes The BizBeat, an overview of the past week’s news in media organizations and industry. Have a tip, see something we missed, or want to put something on our radar? E-mail Shiplett@Mediafiledc.com. Making Headlines In perhaps the biggest media business

The BizBeat – October 20, 2016

Each Thursday, MediaFile’s Business section publishes The BizBeat, an overview of the past week’s news in media organizations and industry. Have a tip, see something we missed, or want to put something on our radar? E-mail Shiplett@Mediafiledc.com. Making Headlines Among this election cycle’s many startling revelations

The BizBeat – October 13, 2016

Each Thursday, MediaFile’s Business section publishes The BizBeat, an overview of the past week’s news in media organizations and industry. Have a tip, see something we missed, or want to put something on our radar? E-mail Shiplett@Mediafiledc.com. Making Headlines Early this week, a bombshell recording from 2005

The BizBeat – October 6, 2016

Each Thursday, MediaFile’s Business section publishes The BizBeat, an overview of the past week’s news in media organizations and industry. Have a tip, see something we missed, or want to put something on our radar? E-mail Shiplett@Mediafiledc.com. Making Headlines The scoop that was (and wasn’t):

The BizBeat – September 29, 2016

Each Thursday, MediaFile’s Business section publishes The BizBeat, an overview of the past week’s news in media organizations and industry. Have a tip, see something we missed, or want to put something on our radar? E-mail Shiplett@Mediafiledc.com. Making Headlines Monday night’s Trump-Clinton debate broke the

The BizBeat – September 22, 2016

Each Thursday, MediaFile’s Business section publishes The BizBeat, an overview of the past week’s news in media organizations and industry. Have a tip, see something we missed, or want to put something on our radar? E-mail Shiplett@Mediafiledc.com. Making Headlines To pardon, or not to pardon: