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 […]
Cramer makes investing look too easy
An article in Kiplinger’s Personal Fianance about “Mad Money” show host Jim Cramer argues that the former hedge fund manager is making investing look too simplistic and easy to the average person.Andrew Feinberg wrote, “At any rate, Cramer’s detractors have trouble acknowledging his fabulous long-term record, as if being too much of a clown prohibits […]
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. […]
Cavuto lauds Kiplinger's Frailey column
Fox News business anchor Neil Cavuto is praising another business journalist. He enjoyed reading Kiplinger’s editor Fred Frailey’s most recent column, which asked readers a set of 12 questions. Cavuto writes, “Frailey talks about his young and otherwise very healthy brother-in-law, Billy, who dropped dead on the golf course of a heart arrhythmia earlier this […]
Newsweek's Jane Bryant Quinn
I moved one office over today from Allan Sloan’s and talked to Jane Bryant Quinn, arguably the most visible and most important personal finance journalist in the field today. Like most women who wanted to be journalists in the 1960s, she struggled to overcome gender discrimination in the newsroom. Like Sylvia Porter before her, she […]
