New Loeb Award final judges announced
The G. and R. Loeb Foundation and UCLA Anderson School of Management announce changes Monday to the final judging panel of the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Named as new final judges are: Matthew Bishop, bureau chief, The Economist; Douglas Frantz, managing editor, Los Angeles Times; Chrystia Freeland, U.S. managing editor, […]
NYTimes.com launches small business web site
NYTimes.com today announced Wednesday the launch of Small Business, a new online section dedicated to current news and resources for small business owners, entrepreneurs and general managers. The new Small Business section includes weekly columns and features from Times journalists and third-party sources, including AllBusiness.com, Inc. Magazine and SmallBusiness.org, as well as a Resource Center […]
March good for biz magazines, bad for personal finance titles
March saw an increase almost across the board for mainstream business magazines in terms of ad revenue and ad pages, but decreases for the personal finance glossy titles, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America. Leading the way was Inc. magazine, which saw a 39.3 percent increase in ad revenue to $7.5 million […]
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 […]
Biz magazines had bad ad sales in September
Most of the major business magazines saw a decrease in advertising revenue in September compared to the same month a year ago, according to statistics on the Magazine Publishers of America web site. Only Barron’s, The Economist, Fast Company and Inc. showed increases in ad revenue. Barron’s ad sales increased 17.7 percent to $5.9 million […]
August is good ad sales month for business magazines
Business magazines posted a second straight strong month in terms of ad sales in August after reporting bad numbers in June, according to statistics on the Magazine Publishers of America web site. For August, all business magazines except for Fortune and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance showed an increase in sales from the same month in 2005. […]
July: A great month for business magazines
For those of you who have been paying attention, you’ll remember that Talking Biz News wrote about a month ago about how many of the business magazines — including BusinessWeek, Business 2.0 and Money — had incredibly an incredibly bad June in terms of ad sales, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America. […]
Declines in ad revenue for Business 2.0, BusinessWeek and Money in June
Statistics posted on the Magazine Publishers of America web site show that among the business glossies, Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, Fast Company and Money all had an incredibly bad month in June, while the other biz magazines showed gains. And for the year, BusinessWeek has fallen behind Forbes in terms of ad dollars. Business 2.0 posted […]
