TIME CEO Jessica Sibley sent the following note to staff on Monday:
Team,
Today, I am thrilled to announce Sam Jacobs as the new Editor in Chief of TIME, effective immediately. Sam will lead TIME’s global newsroom, guide our trusted journalism, and drive innovation across editorial as we continue to focus on accelerating our digital transformation and growing TIME’s audiences.
This is an exciting moment for our brand and today we are making history: Sam is the youngest editor to lead TIME since co-founder Henry Luce. His appointment as TIME’s 19th top editor comes as we are reaching the largest audience in our history—105 million people around the world—with readers under the age of 35 accounting for 45% of TIME’s global audience.
Jacobs is the youngest editor to lead TIME since co-founder Henry Luce
TIME's journalism reaches the largest global audience in the brand's history across digital, print, social and new platforms including live events, TIME Studios, the sustainability division TIME CO2, and more
NEW YORK, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sam Jacobs has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of TIME effective immediately, it was announced today by CEO Jessica Sibley.
Jacobs, 37, is the youngest editor to lead TIME since co-founder Henry Luce. He is the 19th top editor in TIME's history and succeeds Edward Felsenthal, who stepped down in March 2023, and remains TIME's Executive Chairman and a contributing editor.
As Editor-in-Chief, Jacobs leads TIME's global newsroom and its journalism which reaches a combined audience—the largest in TIME's history—105 million people around the world across all platforms. Today, readers under the age of 35 account for 45% of TIME's global audience. TIME's high-impact journalism has served as the foundation of its significant growth since becoming an independent company in 2018, as TIME has launched new business divisions including the Emmy Award-winning film and television division TIME Studios, a rapidly growing global live events business built around the iconic TIME100 and Person of the Year franchises, the sustainability and climate-action platform TIME CO2, and more. TIME's readership includes more than 50 million social media followers and 1 million print subscribers, making TIME magazine the largest U.S. print title in news published today.
We are expanding access to our trusted guidance and information on Time.com
At TIME we believe trusted information should be available to everyone, everywhere, regardless of where they live or what they can afford to pay. For 100 years that has been our mission–to serve as the world’s storyteller, shining a light on the people and the ideas that shape it.
TIME is starting a new chapter in this history: We are offering audiences around the world free access to Time.com, including TIME’s archives dating back to 1923, beginning June 1.
Our goal is simple: work in the service of truth and progress as humanity’s trusted guide. Expanding free access to Time.com for readers worldwide—including our current audience of 105 million, the largest in our history—ensures that we are doing our part to eliminate barriers and improve the world.
When it comes to digital inclusion, there is no leader more focused on bringing access to mobility than Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon, who inspired and supported TIME in this new initiative. When it comes to freedom of information, he says it best: “It is a human right to be connected.” As a pioneer of digital inclusion, Hans is committed to getting one billion of the world’s most marginalized people connected by 2025.
冒頭はまずはTIMEの使命のようなものを語ってから、２段落目に肝となるメッセージを伝えています。
TIME is starting a new chapter in this history: We are offering audiences around the world free access to Time.com, including TIME’s archives dating back to 1923, beginning June 1.
Driving the news: Sibley said the shift is both a business and editorial decision.
"The opportunity to reach more audiences globally, that are younger, and that are diverse, is really important to Sam and myself," she noted, referencing Time's newly-appointed editor in chief Sam Jacobs. Jacobs is the youngest editor in chief in Time's history.
Time plans to produce more ad-supported, digital content that will live on its website, its mobile app and across social media.
Details: Time currently has 1.3 million print subscribers and 250,000 digital subscribers.
The digital content from Time's magazine will now be free, alongside all other content on the website, including 100 years' worth of Time's archived content.
The company will still charge for the print product and still offer a paid digital version of the print magazine through retailers (like Amazon Kindle and Apple News) and through Apple’s App Store.
Paid subscribers to the website will be notified of the changes immediately, and their subscription payments will expire when the paywall is removed June 1.
Well, first, I’ve seen the reports. I can’t in any way validate them; we simply don’t know. Second, I would take anything out of the Kremlin with a very large shaker of salt.
take something with a grain of ˈsalt North American English
used to warn somebody not to believe something completely
If I were you, I’d take everything he says with a grain of salt.
ここではwith a grain of saltがwith a very large shaker of saltになって、さらに強調された訳ですが、翻訳するとなると厄介ですよね。どんな風に対処しているか確認してみます。イディオム的な雰囲気を出したい時は最初の二つの例でしょうが、欠点としてはvery large shakerのニュアンスをこれだと出せないこと。強調したければ「全く」や「すっかり」などをつけたくなりますね。
QUESTION: I have to say we are in the business of ignoring those risks, and going to places where people tell us not to go, and I don’t think that’s going to change. I hope it doesn’t. So we wouldn’t be doing our jobs as journalists – I wouldn’t – if I didn’t ask a little bit about the news of the day, because there’s a lot. And I want to start with the new overnight from the Kremlin, accusing Ukraine of having tried to assassinate President Vladimir Putin with a drone strike on the Kremlin near his residence. Ukraine has denied doing this.
I want to ask the question this way: What is the United States position on such attacks, on leadership during this war by Ukraine or other combatants?
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, first, I’ve seen the reports. I can’t in any way validate them; we simply don’t know. Second, I would take anything out of the Kremlin with a very large shaker of salt. So, let’s see – we’ll see what the facts are. And it’s really hard to comment or speculate on this without really knowing what the facts are.
More generally, as I’ve said and as we’ve said, when it comes to Ukraine – which is under daily assault – and not just its incredibly courageous military forces, but its citizens – its men, women, and children – being assaulted on a daily basis by this Russian aggression, being bombed out of their homes, their apartments, and their streets, children killed, families torn apart – well, we leave it to Ukraine to decide how it’s going to defend itself, and how it’s going to try to get back the territory that’s been seized from it illegally by Russia over the past 14 months and going back to 2014, back to then.
英語だとsummit for democracyと呼んでいるみたいです。ではsummit of democraciesとの違いはなんでしょうか？そんなことが垣間見れるやりとりが国務省の記者会見でありました。この辺りの違いをそれほど意識しておらずハッとさせられたので記事にしてみました。
10:53あたりから
QUESTION: (Inaudible) the contrast in terms of performance of some of the countries that were part of the first summit, such as, in my region in Georgia it has been backsliding, judging from the latest human rights report. And some other countries, such as those in Central Asia, were not part of the summit, but the Secretary has just returned back from the region, and he mentioned some tangible steps that they have been taking. Is it going to be reflected in your – when you look at the invitation list, and also next, let’s say, year of action, when you work with those countries?
MR BERSCHINSKI: Yeah, it’s a good question. Like I said, we want to – this is a summit for democracy; it’s not necessarily a summit of democracies. And despite the fact that we are pitching an extraordinarily large tent, we need to draw the line somewhere. So our main message to governments around the world is, as we always do, we want to engage on matters of democratic renewal, strengthening institutions that reflect popular will, and accountability, and transparency. That’s not limited, of course, to the Summit for Democracy.
We took the approach of reinviting all the countries that we invited in 2021. And you mentioned Georgia. We have made clear our concerns with democratic backsliding in Georgia. The president of Georgia was just welcomed here in the United States. She’s been an outspoken voice for Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations, and she will be the representative of that country that we invite to the Summit for Democracy.
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