Business media and managing your finances
Radio personality Kojo Nnamdi talks to Knight Kiplinger of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance about the future of business media and personal finance in an age of economic uncertainty. Listen to their conversation here.
The demise of personal finance magazines? Not at Kiplinger’s
Knight A. Kiplinger, editor in chief, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, wonders why some people who “gladly pay $4 for a latte at Starbucks — sometimes every day — balk at paying even $1 for an issue of a useful magazine.” Hal Morris, writing on his Grumpy editor blog about Kiplinger’s note in the October issue, […]
USA Today personal finance writer moves to Kiplinger’s
Sandra Block has left her position as a personal finance reporter and has started at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. She had been with USA Today since December 1995. She is now a senior associate editor at Kiplinger’s. “I’m going to be covering a range of personal finance topics at Kiplinger’s,” said Block in an e-mail to […]
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 […]
Wired, Kiplinger finalists for Ellies
Wired magazine and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance are the only two business and personal finance magazines who are finalists for the 2012 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media. Known as the Digital Ellies — for the Alexander Calder stabile “Elephant,” which is given to each winner — the awards will be presented on March 20 in […]
Biz magazine ad revenue in 2011 outpaces rest of industry
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 13 business magazines reported ad revenue of $1.24 billion in 2011, up 6.2 percent from the previous year, far outpacing the slight increase for the entire magazine industry, according to data released by the Publishers Information Bureau and analyzed by Talking Biz News. Ad pages also rose 1.4 percent to […]
Bloomberg Businessweek outperforms other biz glossies in third quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Bloomberg Businessweek reported a 49.5 percent increase in advertising revenue and a 39 percent rise in ad pages during the third quarter, continuing its rebound after a lackluster performance in 2008 and 2009. The magazine, acquired by Bloomberg in late 2009, reported ad revenue of $49.7 million and ad pages of […]
Kiplinger’s customer database is hacked
Diane Bartz of Reuters reports that a hacking of Kiplinger’s database occurred last month. She writes that hackers “broke into its database and accessed information about 142,000 customers, including possibly 43,000 encrypted credit card numbers. “The hack was discovered on June 25, and affected online subscribers as well as those who have print subscriptions, the […]
Kiplinger family wants to turn Florida property into industrial park
The Kiplinger family that operates Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and other publications wants to develop a piece of property it owns in South Florida into an industrial park for biotech and aviation companies. George Andreassi of the Scripps newspaper in Stuart, Fla., writes, “The Kiplinger team anticipates submitting a formal master site plan application in three […]
Biz magazine ad revenue up nearly 10 in 2010, outperforming industry
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 13 business magazines reported ad revenue of $1.17 billion in 2010, up 9.6 percent from the previous year, far outpacing the 3.1 percent increase for the entire magazine industry, according to data released Monday by the Publishers Information Bureau and analyzed by Talking Biz News. Ad pages also rose 7.2 […]
