Bloomberg Businessweek with your Friday morning paper
Bill Mickey of Audience Development writes about how Bloomberg Businessweek is being delivered in new ways to subscribers, including with the morning newspaper in some markets. Mickey writes, “Currently, 9 percent of the magazine’s 860,000 domestic print subscribers already receive the magazine this way. The publisher wants to expand into other metro regions and raise […]
Portland, Ore.-based digital biz magazine seeks funding
A digital business magazine called Stake hopes to launch later this year, but it needs $7,000 in donations by the end of the month to get off the ground. To donate money, go here. The magazine currentlyhas $691 in funding. Support will go directly to journalists, photographers, videographers, developers and designers to help us turn […]
Digital personal finance magazine launched
A personal finance magazine called Sustainable Money designed specifically for smart phones and tablets has been launched. The editor is Darrell Delamaide, a veteran financial journalist who has written for Barron’s, Bloomberg News and Institutional Investor. He was also the director of AOL’s Personal Finance Channel. “Our goal each week is to give you some […]
Harvard Business Review looking to apply its own advice
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson of the Financial Times writes about the Harvard Business Review, which is looking to apply some of the business suggestions in its articles. Edgecliffe-Johnson writes, “Mr Macht and Adi Ignatius, a former senior journalist at Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal who became editor-in-chief in January 2009, pulled their teams together last […]
US Banker magazine changing name to American Banker
U.S. Banker, a monthly banking magazine, will change its name to American Banker Magazine with the July issue. The new name is the name of the daily business newspaper about banking put out by SourceMedia, the parent of both publications. SourceMedia’s banking publications also include Bank Technology News and Credit Union Journal. A story on […]
Entrepreneur’s litigious actions against entrepreneurs
Paul Barrett of Bloomberg Businessweek writes in the latest issue about how Entrepreneur magazine has made a habit out of suing entrepreneurs that use the word entrepreneur. Barrett writes, “The archetypal trademark — for McDonald’s or Xerox, say—prevents competitors from using a distinctive word that might cause consumers to assume they were buying a product […]
Entrepreneur's litigious actions against entrepreneurs
Paul Barrett of Bloomberg Businessweek writes in the latest issue about how Entrepreneur magazine has made a habit out of suing entrepreneurs that use the word entrepreneur. Barrett writes, “The archetypal trademark — for McDonald’s or Xerox, say—prevents competitors from using a distinctive word that might cause consumers to assume they were buying a product […]
The success of Bloomberg Markets
Noah Davis of The Business Insider writes Wednesday about Bloomberg Markets, the business magazine from Bloomberg LP that caters to extremely high-end readers with an international focus with its coverage. Davis writes, “Bloomberg Markets is distributed on an opt-in basis to owners of the machine that made New York’s mayor his first billion or three. […]
Forbes to launch Africa edition
Forbes announced Tuesday its 16th local-language edition, Forbes Africa, in partnership with Africa Business News Publishing. The new edition is scheduled to launch in October 2011, with English-language distribution in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya “Forbes Africa is a very important step for our continued international expansion,” said Forbes Television and Licensing president Miguel Forbes […]
The evolution of B2B magazines
Susan Currie Sivek, a journalism professor at California State University, Fresno, writes for MediaShift about how business-to-business magazines are adapting to reader demands. Sivek writes, “Today’s successful B2B magazines have redefined themselves as multi-platform brands that provide a variety of information and services to their audiences and advertisers. “‘We wouldn’t be here if we continued […]
