Florida Trend named top regional biz magazine
Florida Trend has been named the nation’s best regional business magazine by the Alliance of Area Business Publications. The Associated Press reports, “The magazine won the ‘Gold Award’ in the AABP’s annual competition. It also won eight other awards including, best cover for its February 2009 issue; best feature and best overall design. “The annual […]
iPad sales robust for Wired
Wired has sold close to 73,000 iPad downloads — almost as many copies as the magazine sells on the newsstand — in the past nine days, which has boosted its advertising, reports Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York Business. Flamm reports, “July’s ad pages will be up 28% and August’s more than 50%, according to […]
Settlement reached in magazine dispute
A court battle between the co-founders of a Western Maryland business magazine has finally been settled, writes Chris Huntemann of the Gaithersburg Gazette. Huntemann writes, “Harby Tran of Frederick originally filed a petition in July of last year to dissolve Smart Company Magazine LLC of Hagerstown. The defendant, co-founder RidgeRunner Publishing LLC of Hagerstown, countersued […]
Cape Cod biz journalist resigns
Cape Cod media figure Glenn Ritt has stepped down from his position as co-publisher and contributing editor of Cape & Plymouth Business magazine, writes Sarah Shemkus of the Cape Cod Times. Shemkus writes, “Johnson, Ritt and Viamari founded Cape Business magazine in 2004. They later added Plymouth County Business to the company’s lineup. In September […]
Lane Report focuses on Kentucky business
Ed Lane, the founder and publisher of the Lane Report, a monthly buisness magazine in Kentucky, talked to Mark Green of the magazine’s staff about its founding on the 25th anniversary of the publication. Here is an excerpt: MG: How did it become a monthly publication? EL: American City Business Journals started Business First of […]
Consumer Reports releases paid mobile service
David Kaplan of PaidContent.org reports that Consumer Reports has released a paid mobile service that offers its take on products and services. Kaplan writes, “The new service is free to the roughly 3.2 million ConsumerReports.org subs who paid the $26 annual fee (or at least the $5.95 single month charge). Non-subs can sign up for […]
Florida biz magazine to cease publishing
The Maddux Business Report, a monthly business magazine in the Tampa Bay area, will publish its last edition with the June issue, according to a story in the Tampa Tribune. Michael Sasso writes, “Carlen Maddux, president and owner of the St. Petersburg-based magazine, said the downturn in advertising has hit the publication hard. Its cash […]
BusinessWeek's ad campaign: Hey, we're a business weekly
Robert Andrews of PaidContent.org writes Tuesday about Bloomberg BusinessWeek‘s new ad campaign, which promotes the weekly business magazine as…a weekly business magazine. Andrews writes, “The campaign also includes issuing sample magazines in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Spain; and sticking ads on taxis in London and Frankfurt from May 4. “The campaign as […]
Biz magazine performance better, but still down in first quarter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Business magazines continued to see their advertising revenue and pages decline in the first three months of the year, but at a slower pace than in 2009, according to an analysis of Publishers Information Bureau data by Talking Biz News. The sector also performed better than the overall magazine industry The […]
Maryland biz magazine dispute continues with rival publication
A dispute between two former partners in a Maryland business magazine has led to one of them starting a rival publication and a judge’s ruling allowing the new magazine to continue publishing. Chris Hunterman of the Frederick Gazette writes, “On Wednesday, Frederick County Circuit Court Judge Julie Stevenson Solt denied RidgeRunner’s motion for a temporary […]
