Mixed results for business magazines in October
Business magazines reported results in terms of ad revenue and pages that were all over the place in October, with publications such as the Economist, Forbes and Fortune showing gains from the same month a year ago, but others reporting a drop, according to data posted on the Magazine Publishers of America web site. The […]
New Fortune ME says he's not a big 'vision' guy
MediaBistro covered a Fortune event called “The Fortune 25: The Men and Women Who Shaped the Business World in 2006″ and got to talk to new managing editor Andy Serwer, who explained some of his management and journalism philosophy. MediaBistro wrote, “When asked about future plans for Fortune, Serwer cheerfully told us, ‘I’m not a […]
Switch of MEs at Fortune aimed to rebuild brand
Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York writes that the decision to change managing editors at Fortune by parent Time Inc. signals that the parent company is trying to stem some of the issues that the glossy has recently faced. Flamm wrote, “Fortune needs to crank it up. Portfolio‘s arrival will mean a tougher environment for […]
Former NYT retail reporter Barmash dies at 84
Isadore Barmash, a New York Times retail reporter from 1965 to 1991 whose byline was well-known, died Thursday. He was 84. Barmash, according to an obituary in the New York Times, continued to write even after he retired from the paper. Robert McFadden wrote, “In the genteelly cutthroat world of retail merchandising, where greed, secrets, […]
Business 2.0 blogs won't jeopardize journalist integrity
Josh Quittner, editor of Business 2.0, stated in a radio interview for the show “On the Media” that he doesn’t believe that the decision to pay the magazine’s reporters based on how many hits their blogs receive will hurt their ethics. In an interview with Bob Garfield, Quittner stated, “If my writers start to write […]
Nocera speculates about Portfolio's impact
New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera took questions from readers on the newspaper’s Web site on Tuesday, so I posed a question to him about what impact he believed the new Conde Nast Portfolio magazine would have on business journalism. I thought Nocera would provide an interesting perspective because he once worked for Fortune, […]
Friedman: New Fortune ME doesn't fear competition
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman interviewed new Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer about his plans for the magazine and came away impressed with his attitude toward the job and toward his competition. Friedman wrote, “Serwer is a new breed of managing editor (the highest editorial designation at a Time Inc. magazine). He is the rarest […]
CNNMoney web site begins online video
CNNMoney.com, the world’s biggest business and finance news Web site, launched Thursday streaming video content for its business and finance coverage. The initiative will utilize the video production of CNN, which will co-produce each segment. As part of the launch, a video module with eight featured video segments will be posted on the site’s home […]
GE CEO meets with CNBC employees
General Electric Co. CEO Jeffrey Immelt met Wednesday with employees of subsidiary CNBC, the business news cable network, and told them he was looking forward to the competition with the Fox Business News channel next year, according to a Hollywood Reporter story. The meeting, Immelt’s first with CNBC employees in more than a year, also […]
Biz magazines race for online readers
Diego Vasquez of Media Life Magazine writes that the decision to name a new managing editor at Fortune magazine was in part spurred by growing competition among the biz glossies to attract readers to their online offerings. Vasquez wrote, “Both Business Week and Fortune were far slower than Forbes in developing their web presences, cutting […]
