Why BusinessWeek will survive
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE A lot had been written and said in the past two weeks about BusinessWeek, which has been put up for sale by its parent company, McGraw-Hill. Some have even predicted that the company will be unable to sell the money-losing weekly and will end up closing it. Here’s five reasons why […]
The looming biz magazine shakeout
Robert MacMillan of Reuters writes Tuesday about the impending shakeout among business magazines. MacMillan writes, “Business news publishers rubbed their hands in glee when the financial crisis grabbed headlines last fall, saying the meltdown would deliver a windfall blown in by widespread interest in their stories. “It did not turn out that way. Appetite for […]
Fortune Small Business wins award
Fortune Small Business and The Scientist took honors as the Magazines of the Year in the 31st Annual Azbee Awards of Excellence presented by the American Society of Business Publication Editors. The group’s 2009 Stephen Barr Award for feature writing went to Frank Lessiter, editor of a 7,000-circulation publication for horse-shoers, American Farriers Journal, for […]
Fortune launches new tech site
Fortune launched Thursday a new technology site, Brainstorm Tech, offering reporting, commentary and in-depth stories on the latest technology news and trends from the magazine’s technology team. Contributors will include Stephanie Mehta, Jon Fortt, Adam Lashinsky, Jessi Hempel, Michael Copeland and Jeffrey O’Brien, among others. Brainstorm Tech hopes to combine the Fortime brand with a marketplace of smart ideas fueled […]
The decade-long decline in advertising for business magazines
Nat Ives of Advertising Age writes about the decline in advertising that has occurred among the three big business magazines during the past decade. Ives writes, “A look at each title’s first-half ad pages over the last 10 years shows the affect of the prior boom and bust, along with this year’s sharp declines, but […]
Huey involved in redesign at Fortune
Time Inc. editor in chief John Huey is overseeing a redesign at Fortune magazine, where he was once in charge, writes Keith Kelly of the New York Post. Kelly writes, “However, the move creates a tough balancing act for Huey, who must try to implement changes to rejuvenate the brand without alienating the magazine’s top […]
The magazine bloodbath continues
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The second three months of 2009 was a disaster in the business magazine sector, as no publication reported an increase in advertising revenue or an increase in ad pages. The overall magazine industry saw a 22 percent decline in ad revenue and a 29.5 percent decline in ad pages, according to […]
Happy 80th birthday, Carol Loomis
NewsBios’ Twitter feed is reporting that Fortune senior editor at large Carol Loomis turns 80 today. Here’s an interview I conducted of Loomis back in 2005 about her 50-plus years at Fortune.
Fortune's Bing vs. Microsoft's Bing
Fortune magazine columnist Stanley Bing — a pseudonym — is one of the best business writers today at using humor and sacrasm to make his point. His column has the coveted back page spot in each issue. Software giant Microsoft Corp. announced this week a search engine called Bing that it will compete with Google. […]
Fortune.com experiments with articles
Andrew Vanacore of the Associated Press writes about how Fortune magazine is using Flyp to bring its stories to life online. Vanacore writes, “In April, the magazine published a whopping 11,000-word investigation on Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. The story ran in standard online form, with photos and links to related stories, but the text stood […]
