Biz magazines had bad ad sales in September
Most of the major business magazines saw a decrease in advertising revenue in September compared to the same month a year ago, according to statistics on the Magazine Publishers of America web site. Only Barron’s, The Economist, Fast Company and Inc. showed increases in ad revenue. Barron’s ad sales increased 17.7 percent to $5.9 million […]
August is good ad sales month for business magazines
Business magazines posted a second straight strong month in terms of ad sales in August after reporting bad numbers in June, according to statistics on the Magazine Publishers of America web site. For August, all business magazines except for Fortune and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance showed an increase in sales from the same month in 2005. […]
July: A great month for business magazines
For those of you who have been paying attention, you’ll remember that Talking Biz News wrote about a month ago about how many of the business magazines — including BusinessWeek, Business 2.0 and Money — had incredibly an incredibly bad June in terms of ad sales, according to data from the Magazine Publishers of America. […]
The challenge for Conde Nast Portfolio
According to Media Life’s Samantha Melamed, new business glossy Conde Nast Portfolio will need to have journalism that will distinguish itself from others in the group. Melamed wrote, “The challenge for the new monthly title will be to present readers the sort of engaging journalism that will separate it from the slew of existing titles, […]
Business mags have gotten weird, according to Kantrow
TheDeal.com Executive Editor Yvette Kantrow, who writes a weekly column called “Media Maneuvers,” has a fit in her latest about the most recent cover topic of Smart Money magazine, which claims to have discovered some important ways for all of us to stay healthy, not that that’s a business issue. Kantrow writes, “SmartMoney certainly leads […]
James Stewart is in demand
James Stewart, the former Wall Street Journal reporter whose “DisneyWar” book is one of the three Loeb finalists this year in the book category, is apparently being wooed by the new Conde Nast business magazine, and was recently courted by BusinessWeek editor Stephen Adler, according to the New York Post’s Keith Kelly. Kelly writes, “Joanne […]
Dow Jones management shuffle continues
The new publisher of the Wall Street Journal is L. Gordon Crovitz. He is also becoming an executive vice president at Dow Jones and will oversee Barron’s and MarketWatch as well. Crovitz served since October 1998 as senior vice president of Dow Jones and president of the Electronic Publishing group, where he was responsible for […]
New editor in chief at Smart Money
His name is Jonathan Dahl, and he previously had been executive editor of the personal finance magazine, which is a joint venture between Dow Jones & Co. and Hearst. Dahl also worked at The Wall Street Journal. He succeeds Ed Finn, who becomes editorial director. Dahl, a Columbia University grad, served as a reporter in […]
Newsweek's Jane Bryant Quinn
I moved one office over today from Allan Sloan’s and talked to Jane Bryant Quinn, arguably the most visible and most important personal finance journalist in the field today. Like most women who wanted to be journalists in the 1960s, she struggled to overcome gender discrimination in the newsroom. Like Sylvia Porter before her, she […]
