Biz magazines finalists for National Magazine Awards
The Economist, Wired, Fast Company and Technology Review are finalists in categories for this year’s National Magazine Awards, according to a release Wednesday. Wired is a finalist in six categories — general excellence, feature writing, print design, single-topic issue, personal service and magazine section. The Economist is a finalist in the general excellence category and […]
Parsing executive departures
Mike Hoban, a Fast Company magazine blogger, has some great definitions that help explain what a company is saying when it parts ways with one of its executives, such as “leaving the company to pursue other interests.” Here are some examples: “Mr. Jones resigned under pressure.” What it really means: “We would have fired the […]
Biz magazine ad revenue declined 22% in 2009, ad pages dropped 28.7%
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Advertising in 15 business magazines in 2009 fell by $340 million, or 21.7 percent, to $1.23 billion, due to the lingering recession, according to a Talking Biz News analysis of numbers released Tuesday by the Publishers Information Bureau. Advertising pages in those same 15 magazines fell by 28.7 to 12,844.59 pages, […]
Top biz journalism events of the decade
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The first decade of the 21st century began with business journalists facing criticism for their boosterish coverage of companies during the tech bubble and ended with many of the same reporters facing more criticism for failing to warn consumers about the current economic crisis. In between, the world of business journalism […]
Fast Company gets a boost
Lucia Moses of MediaWeek writes Monday about how Fast Company‘s parent company is making improvements to the monthly magazine. Moses writes, “With the February issue, Fast Company will get fresh typefaces designed to give it a greater sense of urgency. The magazine hired three new Web editors to build out the site’s design, ethonomics (Fast […]
Mansueto interested in BusinessWeek
Jon Fine of BusinessWeek is reporting that Joe Mansueto, who owns Inc. and Fast Company magazines, is interested in purchasing the McGraw-Hill title. Fine reports, “In a brief email exchange, Mansueto said he had ‘no comment regarding the potential BusinessWeek sale.’ In 2005 Mansueto bought Inc. and Fast Company from Gruner & Jahr for around […]
Roehm profile in Fast Company shows male/female bias
Jim Edwards, the former managing editor of Adweek, finds little to like in the Fast Company profile of Julie Roehm, the former head of advertising at Wal-Mart now struggling to find a job. Edwards writes, “Don’t get me wrong. I read the story right through to the end. There’s something eminently readable about the Roehm […]
Other business magazines will fail
Jon Friedman, the media columnist at Marketwatch, predicts that the closing of business magazine Conde Nast Portfolio on Monday won’t be the last of the biz glossies to shutter. Friedman writes, “The business model no longer can be sustained in a digital age. In a bear market where people prefer to sit on the sidelines, […]
Fast Company, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg win Overseas awards
Business magazines Fast Company and BusinessWeek, along with news service Bloomberg News, are among the winners in the annual Overseas Press Club Awards. Richard Behar of Fast Company won the best magazine reporting from abroad award for his story about China’s increasing economic influence in Africa. The judges state, “Behar spent months on the road in Mozambique, […]
Fast Company, Inc. CEO out of a job?
Owen Thomas of Valleywag reports that John Koten, the CEO of the parent company that oversees business magazines Fast Company and Inc., may be leaving the company. Thomas reports, “When asked, Koten said he ‘planned on appearing for jury duty tomorrow.’ To avoid a leak, we hear managers are calling employees with the news that […]
