Magazine covers as an investment signal

Barry Ritholtz writes for Bloomberg View about how magazine covers are often a signal for investors. Ritholtz writes, “As an example, consider the past 30 years of Time magazine covers as they relate to the stock market. When Time named Amazon.com chief Jeff Bezos as Person of the Year in December 1999 it marked the […]

Business North Carolina seeks senior editor

Business North Carolina seeks a senior editor to help run the day-to-day operations and supervise production of this award-winning, 33-year-old monthly magazine. We’re looking for someone who has at least five years in magazine work or with major newspapers and a minimum of three years’ supervisory experience. Must be an exceptional writer, reporter and editor, […]

Crain’s New York launches lifestyle magazine

Crain’s New York Business has launched Crain’s 5boros, a consumer lifestyle magazine covering food, fashion, retail, the arts, and residential real estate. Valerie Block of Crain’s New York writes, “The quarterly magazine, which published Monday, chronicles the impressive growth and resurgence of neighborhoods in every borough of the city. “A companion website with a blogger […]

Barron’s Penta unveils new design, content

Barron’s Penta will go this weekend from a newsprint insert into the weekly financial newspaper to a glossy magazine with additional coverage areas. The new coverage areas are real estate and fashion for the September issue, said editor Richard Morais in a phone interview with Talking Biz News. The December issue will add a section […]

Why Vanity Fair covers business stories

Peter Day of the BBC writes about Vanity Fair magazine’s coverage of business news stories. Day writes, “In the October edition the editor Graydon Carter discloses at least one reason for this odd phenomenon. “Twenty years ago, just after he took over, there was a low ebb in the publication’s fortunes. Circulation was sagging, advertising […]

Forbes in a new publishing world

Michael Wolff writes for Town & Country magazine about how the Forbes family lost control of its magazine and what will happen to it in the future. Wolff writes, “Forbes now maintains a skeleton staff; in effect anyone can write for it, with little vetting or oversight or alignment with the brand. In some sense […]

Macworld magazine is shutting print edition

International Data Group is shutting down Macworld Magazine, the long-time Apple periodical, reports Seth Weintraub of 9to5Mac.com Weintraub writes, “The Macworld.com website will remain open [although as a shell of its former self -ed] with a reduced staff according to Miller, who himself is leaving in a month. “As a former contributor and fan of […]

Willing to eat oatmeal and pay the employees first

Lora Valicra of Mainebiz interviewed Jon Whitney, the publication’s founder, about its early days as part of its 20th anniversary celebration. Here is an excerpt: MB: How did you get the idea for what later became Mainebiz? JW: By 1994 I was looking for something else to publish. I thought the Portland area and southern […]

New biz magazine launching in Delaware

A publishing company with titles in locations north of New York and west of Philadelphia is planning a new business magazine called Delaware Business Times. Joe DiStefano of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes, “Waltz has hired former Gannett Corp. vp/digital media Michael J. Mika (ex boss at of Delaware Online, the Wilmington News Journal site) as […]

Real Deal seeks editor in New York

The Real Deal, a 60,000-circulation news magazine that provides an inside look at the big players and major deals in the New York City real estate market, is seeking an editor. The position will involve working on TheRealDeal.com, which receives more than 7 million pageviews a month, as well as the monthly print magazine and […]