Next Issue Media, the magazine industry JV meant to develop content and formats for the next generation platform devices, is having a lot of teething troubles, though a late course correction may help, according to multiple sources we have spoken to over the last few weeks. The JV—which consists of…

Pali Capital’s Rich Greenfield opened the paidContent 2010 conference at the TimesCenter with a note of skepticism about the recent spate of media joint ventures, such as Hulu or the recently-launched YouTube music video channel Vevo. Moderator Quincy Smith, ex-CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) exec now partner, Code Advisers, put the…

Hulu started the new wave, now Vevo, Next Issue Media, Epix, Canoe and others are following: companies in the same vertical banding together for joint ventures and consortiums. What happens when companies that haven’t been able to crack the code on their own combine for scale, reach and sales power?…

Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith (NYSE: MDP), News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). and Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) are making it formal: the five publishers are equity partners in a new digital publishing venture with grand designs. They want nothing less than to develop open standards for cross-platform e-reader technology, advertising and digital…

After weeks of talks and trial balloons, is Time Inc. actually close to signing a deal with other Conde Nast, Hearst and possibly other major publishers to form a digital magazine JV? Unidentified sources tell the New York Observer that’s the case. The new company, which is not yet named,…

Updated twice below: Everyone wants a Hulu now, nevermind that Hulu’s own long term future isn’t necessarily fully secure. First was Vevo, music industry’s retrograde attempt to generate some revenues from music videos. Then a News Corp-led news consortium, and now, a magazine industry consortium headed by Time Inc, reports…

According to a staff memo from Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) Chairman and CEO Ann Moore (pictured, right), EVP John Squires has a new summer job: figuring out how to make digital media pay. While Squires works on that, Moore will assume direct responsibility for the News Business unit—and some at…

The big question following the last few weeks following the enormous swings of the financial markets is this: how bad is it going to be? Michael Burgi, editor-in-chief of Mediaweek posed a number of depressing questions to a panel of media luminaries at the Dow Jones/Nielsen Media and Money Conference.…