Canadian biz magazine launches iPad app
The Financial Post, a business magazine in Canada, has launched an iPad application. A brief on the Vancouver Sun site states, “The Financial Post Magazine App takes full advantage of iPad’s large, high-resolution display and innovative Multi Touch interface, delivering an enhanced reading experience with exclusive embedded multimedia content including video, photo galleries and timelines. The […]
Covering New Hampshire business news
Maddie Hanna of the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire interviewed Heidi Copeland, the new owner of Business NH Magazine. She was the former associate publisher. What follows is an excerpt: What differentiates your magazine’s business coverage from that provided by New Hampshire Business Review or local newspapers? We never have enough space to run with […]
Boise paper's business magazine launches
David Staats, the editor that oversees business coverage at the Idaho Statesman, writes about what the paper hopes to accomplish with the launching of its new weekly business magazine, Business Insider. Staats writes, “Our goal with Business Insider is to arm you, the business-minded reader, with vital facts and insights to better understand your situation, […]
Prairie Business planning overhaul
Alan Van Ormer, the editor of Prairie Business magazine, which covers Minnesota and the Dakotas, writes about changes coming to the magazine. Van Ormer writes, “Over the next few months, we will be slowly integrating different ideas that include a new logo, shorter stories, monthly discussion on different topics like economic development, leadership, and technology, […]
Biz magazine ad revenue up nearly 10 in 2010, outperforming industry
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 13 business magazines reported ad revenue of $1.17 billion in 2010, up 9.6 percent from the previous year, far outpacing the 3.1 percent increase for the entire magazine industry, according to data released Monday by the Publishers Information Bureau and analyzed by Talking Biz News. Ad pages also rose 7.2 […]
Business NH magazine sold
Business NH magazine, a monthly publication covering New Hampshire business, has been sold to its associate publisher, according to published reports. Charles McMahon of the Portsmouth Herald writes, “Mahoney, a Portsmouth resident, sold Millyard Communications Inc., the publisher of Business NH Magazine and the producer of the Made in NH Try It and Buy It Expo […]
Top business journalism events of 2010
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Here are Talking Biz News’ top business journalism events for the year 2010: 10. Ad revenue returns to business magazines. After suffering two years of declines in advertising revenue and advertising pages, the third quarter of 2010 saw the 14 business magazines report a 7.9 percent increase in advertising revenue and […]
Forbes planning European title
Amanda Andrews, the media editor of The Telegraph in London, writes that Forbes will launch a European edition in 2011. Andrews writes, “Forbes Europe will be based in London or Paris and it will probably launch in 2011. Mr Forbes said he had spoken to European advertisers and there had been a lot of interest […]
Utah Business magazine is sold
Utah Business magazine has been sold to Utah Media Partners for an undisclosed price. A news release states, “Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, a newspaper merger and acquisition firm in Santa Fe, New Mexico, represented Ohio Community Media in the transaction. “‘We are pleased to become part of the Utah Media Partners family,’ said Tyler […]
Biz magazine sold to newspaper parent
Absolutely Business, a business magazine in upstate New York, has been sold to Johnson Newspaper Corp., owner of the Watertown Daily Times, for an undisclosed price. A story in the paper states, “The monthly magazine will be renamed NNY Business and will begin publishing under new management in December. “The acquisition of Absolutely Business from […]
