Sluggish performance by business magazines in first quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The three largest business magazines — Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes and Fortune — posted positive results in the first quarter, but virtually every other title struggled, particularly those geared toward small businesses and personal finance topics, according to an analysis of Publishers Information Bureau data by Talking Biz News. Of the big […]
In praise of biz copy editors
Jane Berentsen, the editor of Inc. magazine, writes in the April issue to laud the work of the magazine’s copy editors. Berentsen writes, “The art department tinkers with type size, the executive editor reads it two times once it is in page, the production manager runs it across her sightline, and the managing editor takes […]
Inc. launches website redesign
Inc.com has been re-launched with new content, features, analysis, tools and a new slate of columnists. “Inc.com is the best online resource for entrepreneurs focused on growing their companies,” says editor in chief Eric Schurenberg, who joined Inc.com in September, in a statement. “The site now really ups the expert level, prominence, and authority of […]
Inc. recruits blogger from BNET
Inc.com has recruited Geoffrey James, creator of the popular “Sales Machine” blog on CBS’s BNET site, to write a daily column on the “how to sell” needs of business owners and startups. James is a veteran business journalist whose work has appeared in publications ranging from Men’s Health to Wired to SellingPower magazine. His blogs and […]
Business magazines garner multiple awards
Folio:’s Eddie and Ozzie awards were handed out Monday, and business magazines took home some of the hardware. The awards recognize achievement in magazine editorial and design. Here are the business magazine winners: — Inc. magazine’s December 2009 cover won the silver award for best cover of a business-to-business magazine with more than 100,000 circulation. […]
Bloomberg reporter leaving for Inc.
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Burt Helm, former ad and marketing writer for BusinessWeek, is leaving the Bloomberg News wire for Inc. magazine as a senior writer. Helm was one of the BusinessWeek staffers that was moved over to Bloomberg when its parent company bought the magazine. Once at the wire, he was reassigned to cover restaurant […]
Biz magazines outperform industry in second quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 14 business magazines published in the United States outperformed the overall magazine industry in the second quarter in terms of advertising revenue and ad pages. The financial and business magazines reported ad revenue of $328.1 million in the second three months of the year, up 11.3 percent from the same […]
Inc. magazine without the office
Joseph Plambeck of the New York Times writes Monday about how Inc. magazine’s staff stayed away from the office for the entire month of February to put out its latest issue. Plambeck writes, “The production went off without a major hitch, with the staff members using nothing more than readily available technology, including Skype and […]
Four biz mags finalists for Digital Ellies
Four business magazines — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Inc., Harvard Busines Review and the Economist — have been named finalists for the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media. Nicknamed the Digital Ellies for the Alexander Calder stabile “Elephant,” which is given to each winner, the awards will be presented at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers […]
Inc. magazine to become virtual office for the month
Inc. magazine announced an experiment it’s doing: For a month it’s going to be a virtual business magazine. It’s closing the offices and it’s staff will be working remotely, which is no easy feat considering a lot of what the staff does, such as passing printed pages back and forth. Staff writer Max Chafkin writes […]
