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. […]
Biz magazines post bad second quarter in advertising
Many business magazines posted a decline in ad revenue and ad pages during the second quarter, according to data from the Publishers Information Bureau. Some publications bucked the trend. The Economist reported a 21 percent gain in ad revenue to $34.4 million and a 2.2 percent increase in ad pages to 648.5 for the quarter. […]
New York Times wins three Loebs; Sloan wins his seventh
The New York Times on Monday received three Loeb Awards, considered the Pulitzer Prices in business journalism, while Fortune magazine’s Allan Sloan won his seventh Loeb Award. Sloan won in the commentary category for a column called “Piece of Junk.” The judges stated, “Of the countless stories about the subprime crisis, this piece stood out […]
Longest story ever published in Fast Company is in June issue
Well-known business journalist Richard Behar‘s opus in the June issue of Fast Company about China’s growing economic influence in Africa is long, really long. So long that it’s the longest article ever published by the magazine at 18,700 words. It’s broken up into six parts — and 24 pages — to make it more palatable. […]
11 out of 16 biz magazines post first-quarter decline in ad sales
A majority of the 17 business magazines posted a decline in ad sales in the first three months of 2007, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America analyzed Monday by Talking Biz News. Eleven magazines saw declines, with five posting increases. Conde Nast Portfolio did not publish in the first three months of […]
Friedman is rooting for Fast Company
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman writes Friday that he hopes business magazine Fast Company can survive and thrive while competing against bigger biz glossies such as BusinessWeek and Fortune. Friedman wrote, “When John Byrne, who now leads BusinessWeek’s Internet effort, was editing Fast Company, it was recognized as a serious, creative publishing force. “It still […]
