Business magazines outperform the industry in third quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Business-related titles performed better than the overall magazine industry in the third quarter, according to data released Tuesday by Publishers Information Bureau. The magazine industry saw a decline of 8.8 percent in advertising revenue and a 12.9 percent decline in ad pages for the quarter. However, a majority — nine — of […]
Fast Company, Inc. publisher lays off 20 workers
Lucia Moses of MediaWeek reports that Mansueto Ventures, which publishes Fast Company and Inc. magazines, has laid off 20 employees. Moses writes, “The books have fared relatively well in terms of ad pages in an otherwise soft market; Fast Company’s pages soared 24.8 percent to 474.8 this year through October, while Inc.’s gained 3.8 percent […]
Fast Company is in good company
Jon Friedman of Marketwatch writes Monday about Fast Company magazine, and he likes what he reads in the business monthly. Friedman writes, “Fast Company isn’t a slave to breaking news and must continually find inventive ways to look relevant in the digital age. It only appears once a month and can’t hope to compete with […]
Biz magazines show strong gains among affluent readers
A survey released last week by media research company Ipsos Mendelsohn showed that a number of business magazines have increased their influence among rich readers. The survey researches the media habits and lifestyles of the affluent population in the United States living households with $100,000+ incomes. Inc. reported a 68 percent increase from 333,000 readers to 560,000 readers […]
Entrepreneur starts social network
Dylan Stableford of Folio writes that Entrepreneur magazine has started a social network called Entrepreneur Connect for its readers. Stableford writes, “The site purports to be a ‘business-to-business marketplace designed specifically for entrepreneurs.’ Sprint has signed on to be the launch sponsor. “Entrepreneur’s social network joins a growing list of rival magazines launching business-focused Web […]
Strong first half to 2008 for Inc. and Fast Company
Audit Bureau of Circulations data for the first six months of 2008 show that the two business magazines — Inc. and Fast Company — owned by Mansueto Ventures had a strong performance. Among the 297+ U.S. consumer magazines that claimed rate base, Inc. magazine ranks 14th in increased growth of single copy newsstand sales and […]
Writing personal finance as a critique
Ron Lieber joined the New York Times in May as its personal finance columnist after being the managing editor of FiLife, a personal finance Web site that is a joint venture between Dow Jones & Co. and IAC/Interactive. Before that, Lieber wrote the “Green Thumb,” a managing-your-money column for The Wall Street Journal that covered […]
Write great stories; don't worry about awards
In the second part of an interview with Fast Company editor at large Charles Fishman, he walks through the process of turning a magazine article into a full-length book. Fishman also talks about what it took to get his editors to pay for a trip to Fiji, and what he thinks makes for an award-winning […]
A three-time Loeb winner talks about how he does what he does
Charles Fishman is a editor-at-large of Fast Company magazine, where he’s been on staff since 1996. He’s currently on leave from the business magazine to write a book about water, to be published by Free Press of Simon & Schuster. The book idea came from a story Fishman wrote for the magazine about bottled water. He’s taken a magazine […]
Bloggers rip print — and each other
Yi-Wyn Yen of Fortune writes Tuesday about the magazine’s Brainstorm Tech conference, where writer Adam Lashinsky sat down with tech bloggers Om Malik, Robert Scoble and Kara Swisher of All Things Digital to discuss the current state of the industry. However, the session turned into the pros and cons of print business news media vs. […]
