Categories: OLD Media Moves

InformationWeek publisher cuts 200 jobs

CMP Technology, a trade publisher whose titles include InformationWeek, said Wednesday that it would cut 200 jobs, fold some of its titles, and publish some of its other publications less often, according to a Newsday story by James Bernstein.

Bernstein wrote, “CMP said Information Week, its flagship publication, will now integrate two other publications – Network Computing and Optimize – creating ‘one brand.’

“CMP said Information Week will remain ‘the primary news and business technology research tool for IT [information technology] decision makers.’

“The company said InformationWeek.com has experienced a 40 percent increase in traffic this year and will launch additional services, including blogs, video services, Webcasts and virtual communities.

“The company also said another publication, CRN, will be published twice a month, down from three times a month; VARBusiness, which has been a biweekly publication, will be produced on a monthly basis.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.