Kiplinger seeks financial services reporter
Looking for a challenging, rewarding journalism job that gives you a chance to do more than report what other people say? Kiplinger Editors seeks an experienced, talented reporter to cover the financial services industry and other aspects of U.S. business and the economy for the country’s largest weekly business newsletter and Web site. We’re looking […]
Kiplinger ponders its future
Thomas Heath of The Washington Post examined the future of the Kiplinger media company, whose best-known publication is Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Heath writes, “Washington-based Kiplinger — famous for its weekly Kiplinger Letter that forecasts trends — continues to punch after three generations. “‘We finished comfortably in the black for 2013, thanks to a record million-dollar-plus […]
Kiplinger.com sets traffic record
Kiplinger.com set a new all-time record for traffic in January, with page views spiking to 25.5 million and unique visitors reaching 3.4 million, according to Omniture. These gains follow strong gains in 2013 for Kiplinger due to a site redesign and a tablet version. In 2013, Kiplinger.com saw impressive gains in both audience (up 10 […]
Kiplinger’s hires Bigda as contributing editor
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine and Kiplinger.com have hired Carolyn Bigda, longtime Money magazine reporter, as contributing editor. At Money, Bigda wrote investing pieces on market trends, individual stocks, ETFs and mutual funds for feature and cover stories. Prior to covering the investing beat, she focused on banking, cash investments, consumer credit and debt management for […]
Kiplinger Letter celebrating 90th anniversary
The Kiplinger Letter is celebrating 90 years of weekly economic and political predictions later this month. The Kiplinger Letter pioneered a concise, telegraphic style that was widely emulated by other publications in the decades to follow. In the Letter’s “sweep-line” style, key points are underlined at the start of each line, which ends in hard […]
Kiplinger launches new version for tablets
Kiplinger has launched a new reader-friendly tablet version of its website using the Onswipe HTML5 platform. Preliminary user testing suggests that the streamlined graphics and a touchable layout featuring image tiles for each article have struck a chord with iPad users. Tablet page views to Kiplinger.com increased 133 percent, and the average time spent increased […]
Kiplinger hires community editor
Kiplinger has hired Rebecca Dolan as community editor. In the position, Dolan will manage and grow Kiplinger’s social media community, creating content and interacting with readers across multiple platforms including regular web chats featuring personal finance experts. “We are proud to welcome Rebecca to the Kiplinger team,” said Doug Harbrecht, director of New Media at […]
Most biz magazines post decline in ad revenue, ad pages
Most of the large business magazines posted a decline in advertising revenue during the first three months of the year, while the overall magazine industry had a small increase in ad money. Leading the decline was Bloomberg Businessweek, which had a 30.2 percent drop in ad revenue to $35.4 million, according to data released by […]
Kiplinger website could erect paywall
Bill Mickey of Folio writes about the new Kiplinger.com website and the fact that its content could end up behind a paywall by the end of the year. Mickey writes, “A team of four developers completed the project in about 10 months, and the proprietary, in-house approach saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars, […]
Kiplinger rolls out new website
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has unveiled a new website that was 10 months in the making. “This was a 10-month project, a top-to-bottom site redesign with an eye to better serve our growing audience, which increased by 25 percent in 2012 and is up 82 percent over the last 3 years,” said Doug Harbrecht, new media […]
