Keith Kelly of The New York Post writes Thursday that the publisher of BusinessWeek, Geoffrey Dodge, is leaving for a job at Salesforce.com after he was passed over for the job of BusinessWeek’s president.
Kelly wrote, “Dodge’s exit comes at a particularly tough time for the business publications category. The big three in the category – Forbes, Fortune and BusinessWeek – are all down in ad pages for the first half of 2007. Mike Dukmejian, the group publisher of Fortune and Money, was bounced earlier this year, with no replacement yet named.
“Business 2.0, a smaller rival in the field, is said to be only days away from ending its run as a Time Inc. magazine. Fast Company, though finally showing a small growth spurt, is still far back in the pack.
“Amid all that, Condé Nast has introduced Portfolio into the category, and most observers think that News Corp.’s pending acquisition of the Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones will make the battle for ad dollars in the space that much more ferocious. News Corp. publishes The Post.”
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