"It's a sad day for journalism -- and for the American public -- when a news organization has to resort to consciously misspelling words in order to reach its readers," said Judith F. Krug, a journal subscriber and director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, in an interview via e-mail.
"After a year, we had 50,000 subscribers," said Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com.
His father is the director of subscriber services at TV Guide in Radnor, Pa.; he manages customer-service operations and support systems.
Among its players were heroes of contemporary music, like the cellist Fred Sherry, a former artistic director; but its subscribers tended to be highly traditional in their tastes.
François Truffaut has been on my mind the last few days, not least because of Anthony Lane's Notebook in the magazine this week (available to subscribers), about one of the director's later films, "The Green Room," from 1978.
He has so much he wants to say about theater then and now--here's a company head addressing subscribers, here's an artistic director explaining to her company why the next season is threatened, here's an actor dying of AIDS--that he's determined to get it all in, and that means, too, his plea on supporting the arts.
The next year, she was appointed business planning manager for advertising, and in 1999 was promoted to director for new subscriber development.
You can make direct contact with any other subscriber so tweet the managing director or recruitment manager of an organisation and ask them directly if they have any suitable vacancies (don't forget to include a link to your LinkedIn profile).
"It's very costly to acquire subscribers," said Chad White, the research director at Responsys.
The actual point of goodbye becomes surreal, or so it did on Thursday night as Boston Symphony subscribers parted ways with their music director of 29 years, Seiji Ozawa.
