OK! Magazine has brokered a strategic partnership with entertainment-centric online media company Buzz Media—and the first fruit of the deal is the relaunched OKmagazine.com. The companies describe the new site, which Buzz Media redesigned and built, as a “joint venture;” Buzz Media CEO Tyler Goldman told us the deal included…

In a surprise move, TV Guide magazine, now owned by PE firm OpenGate Capital, has appointed former Hachette CEO and magazine industry vet Jack Kliger as the interim CEO and senior adviser to the company. This comes as the troubled mag tries to revive itself and the format. This fills…

Newsweek.com and MSNBC.com will continue to throw traffic to each other for another two years, in a deal that execs tell paidContent includes expanded editorial collaboration but no money—yet. It’s the latest evolution of a partnership that stretches back to the launch of Newsweek.MSNBC.com in 2000 and a major deal…

E-commerce is starting to become the favorite alternative revenue stream for magazine websites, as online ad grows slows to a crawl. And so, Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. is ramping up the e-commerce efforts it began earlier this year by striking a partnership with invitation-only, discounted luxury shopping site Rue La…

Jerry Kern, who took on the role of Playboy (NYSE: PLA) Enterprises’ interim CEO when Christie Hefner said she was leaving the company in December, is relinquishing his seat on the company’s board, Playboy announced. Last month, Kern handed off the CEO title to Scott Flanders, the former head of…

Last year around this time, Time Inc. promised a web-based subscription service, Maghound, by the fall. But as that anniversary nears, Maghound has yet to deliver, representing just 1 percent of individual mag subscriptions, publishers such as TheWeek and Discover tell Mediaweek. Dave Ventresca, Maghound’s president, doesn’t offer detailed figures,…

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Time Warner-owned magazine publisher IPC Media is the latest media group to sell its own display ads surrounding its content on YouTube. The company, which has 25 YouTube channels for brands including Marie Claire and NME, claims to be the first UK publisher to sell ads on the Google-owned site.…

Hip-hop lifestyle magazine Vibe is the 10th major publication in just the last six months to cease printing. (Four of those plan to soldier on in the online-only format.) January was the high-water mark for shutdowns, with four. Below is a list of the magazines that turned off the printing…

Vibe magazine hit the deadpool today, but if Quincy Jones has his way, the music magazine he founded nearly two decades ago will thrive again—albeit online-only. Jones sold Vibe to Wicks Group in 2006; he told EbonyJet.com that he’d already begun the process of trying to buy it back. The…

Vibe magazine is the latest pub in the process of closing up shop, GlobalGrind reported. It’s not clear when the last issue will hit the stands or if the website will be preserved. Representatives for the mag were not available. The music and lifestyle pub, which focuses on R&B and…

We mentioned earlier this month about BusinessWeek’s site relaunch: it is live today, and starts with adding a lot more gray into the design. This is a pull back on the much bolder white-space-heavy redesign of its previous version, which launched in October 2007. From the editor-in-chief John Byrne’s note…

In a sense, Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) can already be called a mobile company. It sells books through the Kindle, lets BlackBerry users send in photos of products in stores to find similar items on Amazon, and sells music over the airwaves. But there are signs that the giant online retailer’s…

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It was rare to see a printed-news publisher doing well financially before the recession, so its even more notable to see one making money now. For the year to March 31, Economist Group posted operating profits 26 percent higher than last year at £56 million and revenue 17 percent better…

After just six months as editor Newsweek.com, Will Tacy is leaving the company, paidContent has learned. A rep for the weekly mag confirmed that Tacy is exiting, but declined to say if this was voluntary. In any case, Tacy’s departure after just a few short months is only going to…

Philip Anschutz’s Clarity Media Group is buying the conservative opinion magazine The Weekly Standard from News Corp., the LATimes reported. Terms were not disclosed. The magazine was started in 1995 and edited by Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes. While the project was close to News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO Rupert…

According to a staff memo from Time Inc. 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 company…

Nevermind the irony that a monthly piece in The Atlantic tries to explain the continued rise of The Economist (and by that token, also rest of the media’s continued dissection of why that’s happening). Michael Hirschorn writes an essay explaining why the British magazine is thriving while Time and Newsweek…