Money seeking investing reporter
Money magazine seeks a writer to cover the investing beat as well as other personal finance topics. The successful candidate will pitch, report and write feature stories and department leads, develop graphics, and help brainstorm multi-platform storytelling concepts. Outstanding research and writing skills are required, along with previous experience covering investing and the financial markets. […]
What to do with Fortune and Money
Amy Chozick and Christine Haughney of The New York Times are reporting that Time Inc. and Meredith Publishing cannot decide on what to do with business magazines Fortune and Money as part of their proposed deal to merge magazine operations. Chozick and Haughney write, “The Time Inc. domestic titles that are at issue in the […]
Time Inc. looking to sell magazines, but not Fortune
James Bandler, Doris Burke and Jennifer Reingold of Fortune are reporting Wednesday that Time Inc. is looking to sell most of its magazines but would retain ownership of Fortune, Sports Illustrated and Time. Their article makes no mention of what would happen to personal finance publication Money. Bandler, Burke and Reingold write, “Bewkes gave a […]
John Huey’s legacy at Fortune
David Carr of The New York Times writes about departing Time Inc. boss John Huey, who got his start at the company running Fortune magazine. Carr writes, “‘There have been bullets flying since I got here, way back when I first came as a writer at Fortune,’ he said, referring to his first job at […]
The importance of CNNMoney.com
Douglas McIntyre of 24/7WallSt.com writes about why CNNMoney.com’s success is tied to its partnerships. McIntyre writes, “CNNMoney’s success almost certainly draws from its arrangement as a three-legged stool. It can relay on the traditional business reporting from Fortune, and its company lists that include the Fortune 500. It can rely on Money for personal finance. […]
Big three biz magazines outperforming industry
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The three largest business magazine titles — Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes and Fortune — outperformed the overall glossy industry during the first six months of the year, according to data released by the Publisher’s Information Bureau. Forbes reported as 16.4 percent increase in ad revenue and a 13 percent rise in ad pages for […]
Reuters, WSJ, Milwaukee and Detroit papers among Loeb winners
Felix Salmon of Reuters and The Wall Street Journal are winners of Gerald Loeb Awards, considered the Pulitzer Prizes of business journalism. Salmon won in the blogging category. Reuters also won in the news service category for “Shell Games” by Brian Grow, Kelly Carr, Laurence Fletcher, Nanette Byrnes, Matthew Bigg, Joshua Schneyer, Cynthia Johnston and […]
Money seeks contract reporter
Money, the nation’s largest personal finance magazine, is seeking a full-time contract reporter. The majority (80 percent) of this position will be editorial work — the responsibilities include following a beat and pitching stories on that topic, writing front-of-book articles, finding real people anecdotes for features, creating data visualizations, helping senior writers with background reporting, […]
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 […]
Biz magazine ad revenue in 2011 outpaces rest of industry
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 13 business magazines reported ad revenue of $1.24 billion in 2011, up 6.2 percent from the previous year, far outpacing the slight increase for the entire magazine industry, according to data released by the Publishers Information Bureau and analyzed by Talking Biz News. Ad pages also rose 1.4 percent to […]
