Miami Herald business editor resigns to return to Money magazine
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Lisa Gibbs, the executive business editor at the Miami Herald, has resigned from the paper to return to Money magazine, where she previously worked, as a senior writer. Gibbs, who is a member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers board of directors, says that the decision was primarily […]
CNNMoney.com ranks as No. 1 financial site in February
CNNMoney.com was the No. 1 destination site for the month of February in the financial news & information category with 9.2 million unique users, according to Nielsen numbers released Tuesday. CNNMoney.com topped other sites in the financial news & information category, beating Reuters (7.9 million unique users), Wall Street Journal online (6.8 million unique users), […]
Digitalization of business news has been biggest change in 50 years
The speed with which business news and information can now be delivered to readers has been the biggest change in business journalism in the past 50 years, says Marshall Loeb, the former managing editor of Money and Fortune magazines. “When you see the stuff coming on to the screen, minute after minute after minute, the […]
Business magazines outperformed industry in 2008
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 16 business magazines currently tracked by Publishers Information Bureau lost less in ad revenue and ad pages than the overall industry, according to data released Tuesday that was analyzed by Talking Biz News. The business publications reported a 2.8 percent decrease in ad revenue in 2008, down to $1.7 billion, […]
Dorfman looking for a job, regrets mistake from 30-plus years ago
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE One of the country’s legendary business journalists, Dan Dorfman, says he’s still reporting on the current Wall Street upheaval despite not having a publication that will publish the stories. “The frustrating thing right now is I’m not writing for any publication, and I have stories,” said Dorfman, 77, in an interview […]
Why are personal finance magazines advising to buy now?
Yvette Kantrow, the executive editor of The Deal, writes that personal finance magazines that are recommending their readers buy stocks now don’t really know what they’re talking about. Kantrow writes, “So we trundle down to our local newsstand — we know, so very 20th century of us — to see what words of wisdom we […]
Biz mags gain readers while food, travel and women titles lose them
Lucia Moses of MediaWeek writes Monday about how business magazines have been gaining readers while other magazine genres have been losing them. Moses writes, “The category grew audience by a healthy 8.4 percent in the last year, according to Mediamark Research & Intelligence analysis of its fall audience report. Forbes, Time Inc.’s Money and Dow […]
Buyout volunteers looked for at Fortune, Money magazines
Peter Kafka of All Things Digital writes about how Fortune and Money magazines are looking for volunteers for its buyout program to reduce their staffs. Kafka writes that Fortune managine editor Andy Serwer is looking for about a dozen volunteers. He did not have specific details about how many positions Money is looking to cut. […]
Being a scrooge is the new mantra for personal finance magazines
The Deal executive editor Yvette Kantrow writes about how personal finance magazines have changed their tune with the current economic crisis. Kantrow writes, “Clearly, these are not fun times for the personal finance press. Most people can’t even bear to open their 401(k) statements these days, so they are not all that interested in reading […]
Matters named Money ME
Craig Matters, who earlier this year was named executive editor at Fortune, has been named the new managing editor at sister publication Money. Matters replaces Eric Schurenberg, who will leave the magazine near the end of the month. In an announcement posted by New York Observer reporter Matt Haber, Time Inc. head John Huey wrote, […]
