By Nat Ives for AdAge.com
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A few months ago, a longtime print publisher exploring new employment in digital media met with Greg Coleman, the president and chief revenue officer of the Huffington Post.
Eileen Naughton, Google
“He showed up to lunch in a suit,” recalled Mr. Coleman. “I said, ‘What are you doing with that suit?’ This is somebody I really like. It’s really simply a symbol of the past. It’s a symbol of being in his big office running a magazine and failing to acknowledge that pages are way down.”
It was a small moment about a superficial element, but it was also part of a bigger tableau in which print veterans who want digital jobs are struggling more than before. read more
