David Kaplan
Mar 17, 2009 5:19 PM
Business trade publisher Crain Communications has laid off 150 staffers and sliced salaries across the board by 10 percent, sources tell paidContent. No word on which magazines or whether the business side or the editorial side is bearing the brunt of the cuts. This is the third major paring since…
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Tameka Kee
Mar 6, 2009 12:11 AM
Crain Communications continues to pare down its portfolio: just two days after pulling the plug the long-standing RCR Wireless brand, the B2B publisher is shutting down FinancialWeek.com and folding two European magazines, Business Insurance Europe and Automotive News Europe. U.S.-based pubs Business Insurance and Automotive News will now handle the…
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David Kaplan
Dec 11, 2008 7:07 PM
Yesterday we reported that B2B publisher Crain Communications was closing its print magazine Financial Week and chose to go online only with it. Now, we have learned that it has laid off 50 editorial staffers spread across several of its magazines, sources said. The cuts were made fairly lightly at…
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Rafat Ali
Dec 10, 2008 5:37 PM
Financial Week is possibly the worst publishing name to have right now: covering the battered financial industry on an oh-so-pointless weekly cycle, in legacy print. So Crain’s, that curiously secretive family-held B2B media company, has decided to close the print version of FW, and will exist online only. The Dec.…
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David Kaplan
Nov 3, 2008 7:25 PM
Business mag publisher Crain Communications has bought Staffing Industry Analysts, a company that produces online reports on the temporary jobs sector. With most industries awash in layoffs these days, the temp staffing companies are likely to be the one big growth area for a while. Terms of the deal, which…
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