Monthly biz magazine to launch in New Orleans
A New Orleans publishing company plans to launch a monthly business magazine for the city called Biz New Orleans. The first issue will be in October. A related daily blog page and email newsletter will launch prior to the print edition in September. “New Orleans needs a great business magazine and now it will have […]
Barron’s to publish Penta as glossy magazine
Barron’s announced Wednesday that it will publish its Penta wealth-management quarterly as a glossy magazine insert beginning with the Sept. 29, 2014, issue. Until now, Penta has been published as a newsprint section of Barron’s. “This is a great advance for Penta,” said Ed Finn, editor and president of Barron’s, in a statement. “We launched […]
Bloomberg Media to roll out new products in October
Joe Pompeo of Capital New York writes about the changes being made at Bloomberg Media under new leader Justin Smith. Pompeo writes, “Capital has learned that media group employees were informed last week that the first in a planned suite of ‘digital-led multi-platform brands,’ a politics site being developed by high-profile political journalists and ‘Game […]
AAPB names national contest winners
The Alliance of Area Business Publishers presented 108 Editorial Excellence awards to newspaper and magazine business periodicals June 21, 2014, the climax of its three-day annual Summer Conference in Baltimore. Participation – and competition – was up this year. There were 659 entries from 43 publications in the competition. That number is up from 573 […]
Computerworld publishing last print edition next week
Scott Finnie, the editor in chief of Computerworld, posted the following on the magazine’s website: On June 23, we will publish the last print issue of Computerworld. It was 47 years ago, almost to the day, that Computerworld‘s very first issue rolled off the presses: June 21, 1967. The newspaper’s first publisher was the late […]
Fast Company seeing decline in online readers
ValueWalk notes that business magazine Fast Company‘s online readership is in decline, according to ComScore data. Its story notes, “Year-to-year, Fast Company has seen their Total Visits is decline 8%, Total Page Views is down 16%, Average Visits per Visitor is down 11% and Average Minutes per Visit is down 13%. Even the Median Income for […]
Report on Business wins five National Magazine awards
Report on Business Magazine, published by The Toronto Globe and Mail, won three gold and two silver awards at the 37th annual National Magazine Awards in Canada. A story on its website states, “The gold medal in magazine covers went to Report on Business art director Domenic Macri for a cover featuring Larry Fink, head […]
Coverage: Time Inc. set to be standalone company
Time Inc. begins this week trading as an independent company. The performance of the stock will be an indication of what investors think of the publishing business. The New York Times said in a story by David Carr and Ravi Somaiya called the future of the company “uncertain” due to its debt load and questionable […]
WSJ. magazine launching Latin America, South America editions
WSJ. magazine, The Wall Street Journal’s glossy luxury lifestyle publication, announced Tuesday the launches of WSJ. Magazine Brasil and WSJ. Magazine América Latina. The two new editions, which will be printed in Portuguese and Spanish, respectively, will be published four times a year: October 2014, December 2014, April 2015 and July/August 2015. As part of […]
New editors, layoffs at Canadian biz magazines
Rogers Media Inc. has shuffled the senior ranks of its business and finance magazines in Canada in an effort to cut costs, reports James Bradshaw of The Globe and Mail. Bradshaw writes, “Duncan Hood will be the new editor-in-chief at MoneySense, and also assumes a new role as director of personal finance for Rogers Publishing. […]
