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 […]
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 […]
