Condé Nast Enlists Web Edit Staff For Samsung Advertorial
Condé Nast is attempting to protect the traditional wall separating advertising from print editorial by having online-only staffers create… Read more »
Time Magazine Dons An Online Condom
Let’s get the easy stuff out of the way. Time.com didn’t go behind a paywall this week and there aren’t plans for that to happen. Technicall… Read more »
Updated: Wired’s Dadich Adds Corporate Digital Mag Role
Wired Creative Director Scott Dadich’s role is expanding to corporate Conde Nast following the initial success of the magazine’s iPad app. A… Read more »
Ziff Davis Staffs Up With New SVPs Zucker, Harsh
New Ziff Davis CEO Vivek Shah is pinning his business plan for the digital-only tech publisher on a mix of database marketing, advertising a… Read more »
The New Republic Adds Blogs, Claims Ad Success Amid Hybrid Pay-Free Site
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Just two months after adding a paid-only online subscription product, The New Republic has been trying to round itself out with four new, fr… Read more »
Conde Nast Does Last-Minute Pivot On Wired App Pricing
Last week, Conde Nast’s Bob Sauerberg explained a slightly complicated plan that had the company lowering the cost of Wired on the iPad to $… Read more »
Playboy Laying Off More Staffers, Morphing Into ‘Brand Management’ Company
Ahead of its Q2 earnings report in August, Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) is warning investors that it will take a $3 million charge result… Read more »
Condé Nast’s Carey Defects To Hearst Magazines; Cathie Black Named Chairman
David Carey is leaving his post as group president at Condé Nast to become president of Hearst Magazines. Carey will succeed Cathie Black i… Read more »
First Look: Slick SI App Matches Expectations With One Exception: No Subs
The Sports Illustrated iPad app hit the iTunes store overnight with lots of glossy features in place — and without an anticipated subscript… Read more »
Condé Nast Will Unveil Mobile Research Project In September
Although Condé Nast was one of the first magazine publishers to adopt digital replicas for mobile apps, along with Hearst, which has apps f… Read more »
Condé Nast Vet Tom Florio Resigns
Longtime Condé Nast executive Tom Florio will leave the magazine publisher at the end of the month. Florio has recently served as the compa… Read more »
Fortune’s Hugh Wiley Jumps Ship To Bloomberg BusinessWeek As Publisher
Bloomberg Businessweek has hired Hugh Wiley as its new publisher, replacing Jessica Sibley who defected to The Week magazine. Wiley, who is… Read more »
Interview: Mario Garcia: ‘Print Is The Mother Milk Of The Tablet’
Dr. Mario Garcia is dapper, elegant — and as blunt as a sword that has been used to hack a tree when it comes to what it will take to chang… Read more »
Former TiVo Exec Morgan Guenther Named CEO Of Next Issue Media; Squires Out
After a long search, Next Issue Media, the digital magazine/newspaper JV of Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith (NYSE: MDP), News Corporation (NSD… Read more »
Forbes Puts Investopedia Site Up For Sale; Maidment Resigns
Three years after it bought financial education site Investopedia, Forbes Media has retained the Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. to help sell t… Read more »
Scribd: Publishers Are Wasting Time, Money, Effort In Creating iPad Apps
Although magazines like Wired are reporting strong results for their early iPad efforts, for most publishers, this is still an experiment to… Read more »
Content Monitor Attributor Raises $3.2 Million Fourth Round
Content syndication watchdog Attributor has raised a $3.2 million fourth round as it seeks to market its anti-piracy services more widely. P… Read more »
Mag Industry JV Next Issue Media’s More-Than-Teething Troubles
Next Issue Media, the magazine industry JV meant to develop content and formats for the next generation platform devices, is having a lot of… Read more »
@ NewFront: If Martha Were Starting A Mag Today; Arianna’s Ad Advice For BP
Twitter appeared to be down, so when Martha Stewart took the stage with AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher and Arianna Huffington, she was able to fo… Read more »
Reader’s Digest Association Cutting Global Workforce 10 Percent
It’s been several months since the Reader’s Digest Association emerged from bankruptcy, the publisher is laying off 10 percent — roughly 27… Read more »
Reed Elsevier Ventures Leads Martini Media’s $6 Million Second Round
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Affluent ad-focused Martini Media Network has raised $6 million second round led by Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) Ventures. Granite Ventures and… Read more »
Esquire Hits 100,000 iPhone App Downloads — But Don’t Talk About Sales Yet
It took just six months, but Esquire magazine’s iPhone app has crossed a big threshold: it’s gotten 100,000 downloads of in Apple’s iTunes… Read more »
Hachette Hires Microsoft Ad Exec Domeniconi To Head Elle Group
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) ad exec Robin Domeniconi is officially leaving the company and will return to the magazine world to take on the role… Read more »
Newsweek Now Has At Least Three Official Suitors
“Indications of interest” in Newsweek are in and the publication has at least three official suitors. Bloomberg says in a report that OpenGa… Read more »
Condé Nast Glamour Hooks Up With Match.com
Although magazines are getting a breather from the ad recovery, the realization that marketers’ spending isn’t going to make a full comeback… Read more »
@ D8: Video: Want To Save Journalism? Jobs Urges Pricing Apps For Volume
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Is saving journalism a goal for Steve Jobs? The question came up during the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO’s interview on stage at D8 — and the ans… Read more »
Wired Mag App Sold 24,000 Downloads On First Day
Wired magazine sold 24,000 copies of its $4.99 app in the first 24 hours of its release, according to a tweet by John Abel, the mag’s NY bur… Read more »
New Newsweek.com Emphasizes Minimalism; Paid iPad App Next Week
As the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) tries to find a buyer for its struggling Newsweek, the magazine has revamped its website with a somew… Read more »
Atlantic Suspends Work On Business News Site — Maybe Next Year?
After a series of long delays, Atlantic Media is putting the creation of an online news site on hold. Sources have told paidContent for mont… Read more »
Reuters Second Life Vet Pasick Joins NYMag.com As Managing Editor
Adam Pasick, who spent 10 years at *Reuters* before a brief stint at Atlantic Media, is the new managing editor of nymag.com, filling thw ga… Read more »
Conde Nast And Adobe Return From Drawing Board With iPad App
The tablet version of Wired magazine was in the final steps of preparation last month when Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched released its iPad las… Read more »
Forbes Acquires Freelance Journalism Site TrueSlant
TrueSlant, the journalism site founded by Lewis Dvorkin, has been acquired by Forbes. We first reported on the sale talks last week. The com… Read more »
TV Guide Magazine Content To Return To TVGuide.com
Content from TV Guide magazine is coming back to TVGuide.com — ending an awkward period during which the two properties were completely sep… Read more »
Newsweek Sale Book: First Bids Due By June 2; Complete Financials
When the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) announced that Newsweek was for sale, the top-line numbers we pulled out of SEC documents weren’t n… Read more »
Video: SI’s McDonell Demos Browser Version At Google I/O; iPad App En Route
Sports Illustrated converted some of this week’s issue into a slick in-browser HTML5 edition in time for the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) I/O keynote… Read more »
Haim Saban — And 70 Others — Consider Bidding For Newsweek
Haim Saban, fresh off of buying back the rights to the Power Rangers characters from Disney (NYSE: DIS), tells the WSJ he would take a “seri… Read more »
Mags Look To Facebook To Hawk Print Subscriptions
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There have a been a number of platforms introduced in recent years to use the web to sell magazine subscriptions. But so far, one of the mos… Read more »
Consumer Reports Introduces Paid Mobile Service
Consumer Reports online has long relied on the paid content format, way before it came back into fashion. It has taken its time on the mobil… Read more »
Those of Us Who Remember Newsweek? We Grew Old
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It really is that simple: “I was wandering through a neighborhood in Manhattan today that I hadn Read more »
There Goes The Neighborhood: Hachette Moving Into Time Inc.’s Building
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Here’s an interesting New York real estate story: we’ve heard that Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S will be vacating its long-time 50th St. and… Read more »
