Harvard Business Review reports highest circulation ever
Harvard Business Review, or HBR, said Monday that its overall paid circulation was 260,315 at the end of June, the highest paid circulation ever reported in the 91-year history of the magazine. Chris Reidy of The Boston Globe writes, “Overall paid circulation was 7.5 percent higher than it was at the same time a year […]
Wired to collaborate with Bon Appetit on food issue
Emma Bazilian of Adweek writes about how Wired and Bon Appetit magazines are collaborating on food issues in October. Bazilian writes, “Wired editor in chief Scott Dadich was planning a feature about MSG and umami and had been toying with the idea of building a food-themed issue around it. The magazine had done food issues […]
Oh, the irony: CFO magazine makes mistake with its 401(k) plan
A magazine about financial reporting and corporate tax law, for corporate finance and tax officers, just made a big goof with its own finance and tax department. CFO magazine publisher Alan Glass sent out the following email to employees on Friday morning: I recognize that there has been considerable concern regarding the company’s 401(k) plan […]
PCWorld ends print publication with August issue
PCWorld‘s August print edition will be its last after 30 years of publishing, its parent company announced Wednesday, and it will continue as an online magazine. Bill Mickey of Folio writes, “There are 339,000 print subscribers, per the title’s AAM audit report, and if they want it, they’ll need to register online to receive the […]
Biz magazines underperformed industry in second quarter
The 13 business magazines underperformed the rest of the industry in the second three months of 2013, according to data from the Publishers Information Bureau analyzed by Talking Biz News. While the industry reported a small gain in ad dollars and a 4.5 percent drop in ad pages for the second quarter, the business magazines […]
Forbes acting like a 96-year-old startup
Mark Glaser of PBS MediaShift writes about Forbes magazine and how it is trying to change its publishing model. Glaser writes, “Nowadays, Forbes Media remains a private company, but has reinvented itself with: an online platform at Forbes.com with 1,300+ contributors; a native ad platform with BrandVoice; brand extensions including conferences and international editions; and […]
The D CEO magazine brand of business journalism
Christine Perez is managing editor of D CEO magazine in Dallas and founding editor of its D Real Estate Daily news site. Prior to joining D, she was a longtime commercial real estate reporter for the Dallas Business Journal and served as a columnist for National Real Estate Investor magazine. Before that she worked for […]
Independent business publications named best in their field
The Alliance of Area Business Publications presented 108 awards to newspaper and magazine business periodicals this weekend during its three-day annual Summer Conference in Nashville. The winners were: Best Magazine went to D CEO. The judges wrote, “Great design, layout and illustrations highlight solid, well-reported, and well-written stories. A dynamic array of features, profiles, news […]
Bloomberg Businessweek starts new ad campaign
Todd Wasserman of Mashable writes that Bloomberg Businessweek is targeting twentysomethings living at home for a campaign that aims to gently nudge them out of their parents’ basements by offering — what else? — a subscription to the magazine. Wasserman writes, “The title launched the website bbwgetsyouahead.com, which houses e-giftcards that parents and friends can […]
Grid biz magazine takes a vacation
Lewis Lazare of the Chicago Business Journal writes that the Grid business magazine of the Chicago Sun-Times did not publish this week. Lazare writes, “Sun-Times subscribers looking for their copy in home-delivered editions of the paper would have discovered the magazine was missing. “Rather, buried in the paper’s thin Sunday main section was a single […]
