Business North Carolina named best biz magazine

Business North Carolina was named the best regional business magazine in the country by the Alliance of Area Business Publications at its annual conference this past weekend in Milwaukee. The judges wrote, “Great writing is its hallmark, the output of skilled reporting and impeccable editing. The stories are interesting to read even for people who […]

Second edition of Reuters magazine coming this week

Joe Pompeo of Capital New York reports that the second issue of Reuters magazine — the first was unveiled at Davos earlier this year — will come later this week and be called “The Leadership Issue.” It has been prepared around a similar event here in the states: The Aspen Ideas Festival, which kicks off […]

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 […]

Report on Business is Canada’s most-read biz magazine

Report on Business Magazine, which is produced by the Globe and Mail in Toronto, is now the most-read business magazine in Canada, according to an survey on readership. A Globe and Mail story states, “New data from the Print Measurement Bureau show the magazine claimed 951,000 readers over the age of 18. That is about […]

Rhode Island biz magazine launches

Rhode Island Monthly has launched a quarterly business magazine called BrandRI. Christine Dunn of the Providence Journa writes, “BrandRI, with its April issue, replaces Rhode Island Business Quarterly, according to Robin Erickson, the company’s director of marketing & sales promotion. Erickson said the rebranded publication will be mailed along with Rhode Island Monthly to subscribers, […]

Atlantic planning publication tentatively called Global Business Elite

Nat Ives of Adverting Age talks to Chris Batty, who has been hired by the Atlantic to be the publisher of its new business publication. Here is an excerpt: Ad Age: Everyone in web publishing has to figure out how niche or how mass they want to be. Is this new site going to play […]

D CEO magazine hires assistant editor

Jessica Melton has been hired as assistant editor of D CEO magazine, where she will also write for its RealPoints real estate blog. Christine Perez of D magazine writes, “Melton has served as an editorial intern for D Magazine Partners since last fall. Earlier this year, she began focusing exclusively on RealPoints and D research […]

Entrepreneur magazine sues another for using “entrepreneur”

Michael del Castillo writes for Portfolio.com that Entrepreneur magazine is suing another magazine called CEO Entrepreneur Magazine for using the word entrepreneur. Del Castillo writes, “From EMI’s perspective though, the company is simply doing what any entrepreneur with a good brand should want to do — protect itself. “EMI corporate council Ron Young described the […]

Reading stories that only magazines can convey

Amy Chozick of The New York Times writes about the new magazine from Bloomberg LP called Bloomberg Pursuits. Chozick writes, “Pursuits (which has the same name as a short-lived Wall Street Journal weekend leisure section) will be sent to 375,000 readers, with 60 percent of those living outside the United States, the company said. That […]

Bloomberg Pursuits has arrived

Bloomberg Pursuits, a new magazine for the rich on how they spend their money, arrived in the mailbox this weekend. Read more about the new magazine here.