Ch-ch-ch-changes for The Beat

Heidi MacDonald - 01/13/2016 10:00 am 38

If you're a faithful Beat reader, you know the past year has been filled with discussions of the economics of running a comics news website. This talk was prompted by an unprecedented run of comics sites closing down or losing key personnel. I summed up a lot of my thoughts back in September, pointing out that the realities of the web make running any kind of independent site very difficult these days.

Marvel’s Sana Amanat to appear on Late Night with Seth Meyers tonight

Heidi MacDonald - 01/05/2016 2:45 pm 0

If you were wondering who the Face of Comics 2016 is, how about Sana Amanat, Marvel's Director of Content and Character Development. In addition...

Gender and Feminism in the Jem and th Holograms comic

Heidi MacDonald - 11/23/2015 2:00 pm 3

We've been writing quite a bit in the last year about the slow death of comics media, and one of the reasons is that...

More Nerd News Site Attrition: io9 folds into Gizmodo

Heidi MacDonald - 11/18/2015 10:30 am 1

Will any geeks news sites be left standing as 2015 draws to a close? I would have thought io9, the nerd part of the...

It’s about disclosure in comics journalism

Heidi MacDonald - 11/03/2015 4:15 pm 18

For the past few days there has been a kerfuffle in the extremely high profile, glamourous and profitable world of comics journalism. Rather than comment on this hot mess, I'm going to talk about why it happened. And what we an do to improve things.

The Beat Podcasts!: More to Come – Supergirl Power

Kate Fitzsimons - 11/02/2015 2:30 pm 0

In this week’s podcast, the More to Come Crew - The Beat's own Heidi MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons - discuss the new...

Great EIC DIaspora of ’15 claims another one: Hannah Means-Shannon leaves Bleeding Cool

Heidi MacDonald - 10/23/2015 2:00 pm 6

OMG how many comics news sites can lose their editors in one year? All of them I guess. Add Hannah Mean-Shannon to the moving...

NYCC ’15: “Using Tumblr to Sell Your Ideas” Liveblog

Alexander Lu - 10/10/2015 1:58 pm 3

We're live at the "Using Tumblr to Sell Your Ideas" panel. Our panelists include Ghost Rider writer Felipe Smith, My Little Pony artist Katie...

The Money Thing Part 2: New writer on Red Wolf is perfect storm of...

Heidi MacDonald - 09/09/2015 4:30 pm 35

When is a story not a story? When is the story about a story actually the story? Well strap yourselves in because you're about to find out!

The money thing part 1: there is none in writing about comics

Heidi MacDonald - 09/09/2015 9:00 am 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8P80A8vy9I Time to get meta again! The article The Awl by Noah Davis about rising pay rates for online writing gave hope to millions: Many newer...