WSJ magazine to increase circulation, number of issues

Amy Wicks of Women’s Wear Daily reports Wednesday that WSJ., the glossy magazine from The Wall Street Journal, plans to double its circulation and increase the number of issues by 50 percent in 2010. Wicks writes, “Beginning in March, The Wall Street Journal’s quarterly glossy magazine WSJ. will raise its circulation to 1.6 million from […]

Business mags No. 2 category among dead glossies in 2009

Vanessa Voltolina of Folio reports that of the 428 magazines that folded in 2009, only regional publications had more deaths than the business magazine category, according to data from MediaFinder.com. Voltolina writes, “But while the number of ceased titles may be fewer than years past, there have also been fewer launches. There were only 275 […]

Business magazines need to find their reason for existence

Alan Webber, one of the co-founders of Fast Company magazine, writes on Folio Monday that the remaining business magazines need to reinvent themselves for readers rather than just trying to survive. Webber writes, “They want authenticity, integrity, and real dialog — and instead they feel they’ve been getting a steady diet of status-quo thinking, round-up-the-usual-suspects […]

The overhaul at Harvard Business Review

Stephanie Clifford of The New York Times writes Friday about the changes made at the Harvard Business Review to give it more appeal to a broader set of readers. Clifford writes, “The first part of that is making Harvard Business Review more current. “When the Review was founded in 1922, it dispensed Harvard Business School […]

Maine biz magazine launches

Ann Mostue of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network interviewed Maine Ahead editor in chief Tori Britton about the launch of the new business magazine. Here is an excerpt: Anne Mostue: So, what about the decision to start a business, let alone a print publication, during such a recession? This magazine was about two years in […]

Bloomberg Markets isn't being neglected

Matthew Flamm of Crain’s New York writes about how Bloomberg Markets is getting attention despite its parent company’s acquisition of BusinessWeek. Flamm writes, “This summer, the financial information giant hired Time Inc. veteran Michael Dukmejian as the title’s first full-time publisher, and he’s been busy pumping up advertising. Revenue — down 11% for the year […]

Chinese biz magazine regroups

Sky Canaves of The Wall Street Journal writes about how Chinese business magazine Caijing is struggling in the aftermath of the departure of its editor and a majority of its staff. Canaves writes, “The Nov. 23 issue underscores the uncertain future of the biweekly magazine. It was pulled together by a skeleton staff of fewer […]

Forbes claims biz magazine supremacy

Forbes magazine issues a release Wednesday where it claimed to be the business magazine leader, according to Mediamark Research & Intelligence’s MRI Fall 2009 report. Forbes’ audience is now larger than at any time in the company’s 92-year history, representing the largest audience reach for any business title in the last 15 years. Forbes’ total […]

Fast Company gets a boost

Lucia Moses of MediaWeek writes Monday about how Fast Company‘s parent company is making improvements to the monthly magazine. Moses writes, “With the February issue, Fast Company will get fresh typefaces designed to give it a greater sense of urgency. The magazine hired three new Web editors to build out the site’s design, ethonomics (Fast […]

What the cutbacks in biz mags mean

Nat Ives of Advertising Age writes about the job and issue cuts occurring at the top three business magaiznes — BusinessWeek, Forbes and Fortune. Ives writes, “The job cuts, another buyer said, won’t help in that effort. ‘By cutting their staff in any significant way, they’re really hurting the product in the long run,’ said […]