She might run the biggest magazine company in the world in a time of falling advertising revenue and dwindling sales, but Time Inc's (NYSE:TWX) CEO and Chairman Anne Moore doesn't sound too concerned. She tells The Times of a two-year strategy to get her company, owner of consumer UK magazine [...]
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO) has named former InStyle.com exec Gail Horwood to the new role of SVP Digital Programming and Strategy. Horwood will oversee MSLO's digital properties, including MSLO sites marthastewart.com and wholeliving.com. In addition to guiding the sites' editorial strategy, Horwood will work with the merchandising team [...]
-- Penton Media: Former president and CEO of Thomson Financial will now take on the role of CEO at Penton Media as well as join its board of directors. Before serving in various management roles, including COO, at Thomson Financial, Rowlands ran the North American operation of FT Information. She [...]
-- Newsweek: The Washington Post Co. mag has named Pamela Raley, a former online ad sales exec at Hearst, Disney and Revolution Health, to the new post of chief revenue officer. Raley will be responsible for overseeing all ad revenue and the magazine's ad sales teams, but her main focus [...]
By now, anyone who's been paying attention knows that Tina Brown's online project with Barry Diller's backing is called The Daily Beast after the paper in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop. Brown's high-profile move to the web from glossy print is scheduled to go live Monday at 7 a.m. eastern, in the [...]
Back in May, a site called Mygazines was launched, offering a peer-to-peer model for readers to share their magazine subs with each other. The basic idea: subscribers could upload digitized versions of their magazines for others to peruse. No shock: The magazine publishers were in no mood to see their [...]
Our speaker lineup for EconWomen is bursting at the seams with women's media executives eager to discuss this burgeoning market. Along with a few panels, we're going to feature two keynote Q&As; at the event, one with Hearst Magazines President Cathie Black and the other with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia [...]
Andy Abramson |
October 1st, 2008 |
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In a move that has been speculated for some time, Virgo Publishing has acquired the assets known as VON from TICC, the holder of the rights. The key is they plan to hold an event that is a conference and expo. Virgo is a proven publisher who has had success [...]
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September 30th, 2008 |
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Bidders in the auction of Reed Business Information are re-examining their calculations after discovering a shortfall in the staple financing they were offered by the publisher to complete the deal. (Thanks to FT.com)And the moral is, always check the stationery cupboard first.http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping[...]
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September 28th, 2008 |
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Project Runway won't show up on Lifetime this fall, after all, following an NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) victory in New York State Supreme Court. The Weinstein Co's hit reality show was supposed to switch from Bravo to the ABC-Hearst-owned network for its sixth season in November. But NBCU won a [...]
It is not so apt, if you think about it, that Yahoo has finally put up the details of its new system to let customers buy and sell display advertising-now called APT-right smack in the middle of the most serious financial meltdown of the modern era. That's because the economic [...]
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September 25th, 2008 |
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Swedish publisher Bonnier Corp. has acquired Working Mother Media from MCG Capital and founder Carol Evans. In addition to publishing the Working Mother magazine, the company publishes research like 100 Best Companies for working mothers. Bonnier already publishes Parenting and Baby Talk. Last year, Bonnier's Corp's parent Bonnier Group acquired [...]
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September 24th, 2008 |
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-- Glam Media: Scott Schiller has been promoted to the new position of EVP of global marketing, where he will lead the U.S. women's ad sales team and report directly to CEO Samir Arora. With over 20 years of ad and sales management experience, Schiller worked at Disney (NYSE: DIS), [...]
Exact Editions |
September 24th, 2008 |
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One of my day-to-day challenges in speaking to publishers about their digital plans is to understand the structure of the company and where the digital buck stops. In very small publishers this is easy because the founder and owner is usually also head of editorial, marketing guru, director of all-things-digital [...]
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September 24th, 2008 |
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MSN, which has decided to go the AOL (NYSE: TWX) way in launching standalone site, has launched its previously announced food site, the rather curiously British-named Delish.com. MSN is only the distribuotr...the main project has been executed by Hearst: Hearst Magazines Digital Media is in charge of the design, development [...]
Rex Hammock |
September 23rd, 2008 |
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I don't typically blog about the launching and closing of magazines or magazine-related online ventures. However, when it involves a once grand, but now abused, magazine brand, I make exceptions. So, here's a brief timeline of this topic on RexBlog: September 22, 2004: I blogged about the hype oozing from [...]
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September 23rd, 2008 |
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Time Inc.'s Life magazine has gone through several lives; its last incarnation as a newspaper supplement ended last year. Now the company is bringing it back as a website in a partnership with Getty Images (NYSE: GYI). Executives from the two companies made their announcement at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's [...]
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September 19th, 2008 |
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The leading bid for Lloyd's List B2B publisher and Datamonitor operator Informa has been scuppered by the state of the financial markets. Providence, bidding with Blackstone and Carlyle, offered 450p per share (£1.9 billion), but the trio said they were unable to get financing to fund a higher offer. Informa [...]
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September 18th, 2008 |
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-- blinkx: Tech consultant Jonathan Spira is succeeding Matthew Service as CFO this month, following the latter's move up to the COO post at the San Francisco video search engine. Spira comes to blinkx from J.Phineas International, a business consultancy company he founded. Before that, he had served as CFO [...]
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September 17th, 2008 |
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Remember the whole Microsoft-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) courtship and how for a brief period, everyone was talking to everyone else about possible tie-ups and alliances? Everyone's still talking to each other says Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, Bewkes said it all had [...]
Yesterday, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg and I jumped into the BoomTownMini and took a road trip down the lovely 280 to Palo Alto's MacArthur Park restaurant for a lunch thrown by Germany's Hubert Burda Media. Burda runs an annual digital conference in Munich, called DLD (Digital, Life, Design), which a [...]
