Lagardère Seals Deal To Off-Load Global Magazines To Hearst
French media conglomerate Lagardère says it’s received a binding offer from Hearst of €651 ($892.52/£560.45) million for its non-French… Read more »
A News Corp. Digital History Lesson For The Daily
Evan Rudowski is co-founder of SubHub, a paid content platform. He was previously an online manager at Newsday and business development dire… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-28-11
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» The Newspaper Guild of New York, which represents Newsweek edit staffers, has given its assent to merger between the magazine I… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-27-11
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» What could have been… Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) priced its IPO on Wednesday and saw its stock rise 33 percent its first day. B… Read more »
Slide Deck: Lagardere’s Tablet Publishing Strategy And Apple Talks
French media conglomerate Lagardere, currently selling its Hachette Filippachi to Hearst’s NatMags, says 25 to 30 percent of people who down… Read more »
Meredith Rides Ad Recovery Wave, As It Relies More On Integrated Marketing
Women’s magazine publisher Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP) posted strong results last quarter, signaling that the magazines and local broadcast w… Read more »
Social News Site Ongo Combines Aggregation And Paywalls
After months of operating in stealth, social news site Ongo, which received $12 million in funding from the NYTCo (NYSE: NYT), Gannett (NYSE… Read more »
Publishers’ iPad Subs’ Grumbles Earn Apple Antitrust Attention
What is Apple’s preferred big idea for iPad news and magazine subscriptions? We don’t know – a possible newsstand announcement may have been… Read more »
CNNMoney.com Integrates LinkedIn To Keep Readers On Site Longer
CNNMoney, the online face of Fortune magazine, is integrating business social network LinkedIn the Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) mag’s annual list o… Read more »
Hachette Shuts Teen Mag Sugar, Website Stays
Teenage girls’ magazine Sugar is to close after a 75% fall in circulation over the past decade, with publisher Hachette Filipacchi blaming y… Read more »
iPad: Just Another ‘Free Internet Appliance’?
When the iPad was launched last year, much was made of how it would revolutionize video and other media consumption. But new research may no… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-18-11
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» Troubled video renter Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is asking lenders for more cash. [WSJ]
» Facebook took in $1.86 billi… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01-15-11
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» Here’s one reason digital storefront Next Issue Media appears more active lately: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has told publishers that t… Read more »
Next Issue Lines Up Magazines For Launch Of Digital Newsstand
Next Issue Media, the newspaper and magazine publishing JV, has been slowly putting itself together for the past year and is almost ready to… Read more »
‘Pernicious Gremlins’ Delayed Issue #2 Of Virgin’s iPad-Only Mag, Now Out
I was literally in the middle of writing about Project’s delayed second issue when I had to reload the page and it was for sale. Oddly, the… Read more »
With Plans To Double Revenues, Atlantic Switches Gears On Premium iPad App
On the heels of last week’s news that the high brow culture and news publication The Atlantic posted its first profit “in decades” — and th… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.11.11
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» Sources say Rupert Murdoch will be joined by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs for News Corp.’s unveiling of its “iPad newspape… Read more »
Time Inc. Creates Dedicated Integrated Marketing Unit
Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s decision to form a standalone “branded solutions” unit appears to be the final piece of the puzzle that CEO Jack Gri… Read more »
PIB: Despite Ad Recovery, Mag Ad Pages Ended 2010 Slightly Down
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Although advertising spending came back in 2010, the best consumer magazines were able to do was to arrest the erosion of ad pages, accordin… Read more »
For Publishers, iPad Apps Are So Far More Dash Than Cash
The news industry embraced the launch of Apple’s iPad in April 2010 with something that felt like true love: feverish anticipation at that f… Read more »
Google Weighing Up Its Own Newsstand, But Who’s Reading?
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When it launched last year, the iPad was hailed as the fresh-faced savior of the beleaguered and tired publishing industry. That idea looks… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 01.03.11
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» Publishers are very hopeful about the launch of a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) “digital newsstand.” In recent weeks, Google has told pub… Read more »
Parsing Pew: What The Latest Online Content Buying Numbers Really Say
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You are about to see a host of references to a new batch of numbers from the Pew Internet & American Life project pop up all over the place.… Read more »
Time Inc.’s Latest Reorg Comes To Sports And News
Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is continuing the restructuring that has started on the sales and marketing side with a few personnel changes in news… Read more »
Magazine iPad Apps: Static, Separate, and Overweight
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In a recent post about publishing being about artefacts and access, I suggested that magazines were living in false hope regarding the iPad. Read more »
Flipboard Updates With Loads Of Features, But Still No Offline Access
The good news first: Flipboard, the popular iPad app that lets users aggregate its social media and news feeds into one unified, magazine-li… Read more »
Zuckerberg Named Time Magazine’s ‘Person Of The Year’
After a mostly unflattering portrayal in a movie that became a box office hit, more concerns about privacy and advertising, Facebook’s Mark… Read more »
Microsoft Will Use CES To Push A Slate Of Slates
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Back in July, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer described the company’s tablet strategy as “job one urgency here.” But he declined to say when any… Read more »
Time Inc.’s Jack Griffin: Digital Needs A Single Point Person
Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jack Griffin and Interactive Advertising Bureau president and CEO Randall Rothenberg began talking about the job o… Read more »
Meredith Buys Remaining Piece Of Real Girls Media Network
Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP) has acquired the remaining stake in the Real Girls Media Network. Financial terms weren’t released. The publisher… Read more »
Forbes Planning European Magazine Edition
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Steve Forbes, the billionaire publisher of the US-based Forbes magazine, may launch a Forbes Europe title next year, according to a Daily Te… Read more »
Future Sees iPad As A Bookazine Vehicle For Now
As magazine publishers unfold the tablet opportunity, Future is going large, but not yet going long.
It’s unveiled 14 new titles for iPad,… Read more »
Men’s Health Publisher Rodale Adds New Mobile Head, Aims For Premium Apps
Rodale, the health and wellness publisher behind magazines like Men’s Health and books like Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, has appointed M… Read more »
Gourmet Live App Puts ‘A La Carte’ Items On The Menu
Nearly four months after hitting the iTunes Store, Condé Nast’s Gourmet Live free iPad app is now selling 99 cent back issues and “special… Read more »
Time Inc. Creates New Roles For Revamped Marketing, Ad Sales Teams
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Less than three months since former Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP) exec Jack Griffin succeeded Ann Moore as Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.’s CEO, the mag… Read more »
Hearst Flexes Marketing Muscles With Amazon On Advertorial E-Publication
Just in time for the holidays, Hearst Magazines’ Popular Mechanics and Esquire have released a digital publication on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) th… Read more »
Lagardère Looks For Outside Help To Run Hachette U.S. Mags
It looks like Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. hasn’t finished cutting its costs, as parent Lagardère Active is considering selling off most… Read more »
Flipboard Tries To Deliver Magazine Promise With New Looks For Media, Ads
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Flipboard launched in July to rave reviews and intense interest in an iPad app that made Twitter and Facebook look downright glossy. But unt… Read more »
MSN Rolls Out A Health And Fitness Site With Rodale
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Microsoft’s MSN, which has launched a series of very successful sites with major magazine publishers over the last two years, is now partner… Read more »
Next Issue Media’s Digital Newsstand Is Ready To Start Charging
It looks like Next Issue Media, the newspaper and magazine publishing JV, is finally ready to open its digital newsstand for business. The c… Read more »
