Wired is finalist for magazine of the year

Wired was named Tuesday as a finalist for magazine of the year by the American Society of Magazine Editors. It is competing against National Geographic, The Atlantic, Backpacker and Foreign Policy. The award honors the best magazines published both in print and on digital platforms. Wired has been a finalist in the general excellence category […]

Bloomberg Businessweek ad pages up 49 percent in first quarter

Bloomberg Businessweek saw a 49 percent increase in advertising pages in the first three months of the year, according to data released Wednesday by the Publisher’s Information Bureau. Its ad revenue rose 65 percent to $46.2 million for the quarter, easily the best performance among the business magazines. Fast Company and Wired magazine also posted […]

Biz magazines named finalists for National Magazine Awards

Five business magazines were named finalists Tuesday for the annual National Magazine Awards, given out by the American Society of Magazine Editors. Fast Company is a finalist in the general excellence category for its July-August, September and November issues. Bloomberg Markets is a finalist in the lifestyle, finance and technology category. Fortune is a finalist […]

Wired’s app sales are down

Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson spoke at Columbia University on Thursday, and he noted that the magazine puts stuff on its covers to sell copies and that its iPad app sales have fallen since it was first introduced. Zeke Turner of Women’s Wear Daily writes, “Wired’s iPad app hasn’t been performing as well as […]

Wired tech blog to become movie or TV show

Jay Fernandez of The Hollywood Reporter writes that the popular GeekDad blog on the Wired magazine site has sold its rights for developing a TV show or movie around the name. Fernandez writes, “What began as a popular blog on the Wired website devoted to tech-savvy geek fathers has bloomed into a bestselling book, a […]

Biz magazine ad revenue up nearly 10 in 2010, outperforming industry

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 13 business magazines reported ad revenue of $1.17 billion in 2010, up 9.6 percent from the previous year, far outpacing the 3.1 percent increase for the entire magazine industry, according to data released Monday by the Publishers Information Bureau and analyzed by Talking Biz News. Ad pages also rose 7.2 […]

Wired magazine and its publisher

Nick Summers of the New York Observer writes about Wired magazine publisher Howard Mittman and the success that the tech-oriented business magazine has seen this year. Summers writes, “The 37-year-old is part of a new breed of less bombastic executives at the company after the humbling recessionary plummet in luxury advertising. As a publicist put […]

Wired loses creative director, iPad sales strong

John Koblin of Women’s Wear Daily has an update on Wired magazine’s strong iPad sales, and the loss of its creative director. Koblin writes, “Condé Nast ‘It’ boy Scott Dadich has resigned as creative director at Wired to focus full time on his other gig as the company’s executive director of digital-magazine development. Dadich got […]

Biz magazines outperform industry in third quarter

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The 14 business magazines that report advertising data to the Publishers Information Bureau outperformed the rest of the magazine industry, according to data released Monday that was analyzed by Talking Biz News. The magazines reported a 7.9 percent increase in advertising revenue and a 5.4 percent rise in advertising pages. That […]

Wired senior editor to take over custom PC World/Macworld ops

Veteran journalist Ted Greenwald, a senior editor at Wired for nearly 10 years, has been named content director for PCWorld|Macworld Content Works, a new division that will design, produce and distribute custom content for marketers. Greenwald produced feature journalism on computing, networking, and business at Wired. During his tenure, Wired won three National Magazine Awards […]