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- Look Beneath the Covers; Magazines' Distribution Model Is Broken, Too
- The big, depressing news in the magazine industry today is that, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, newsstand sales are down 11 percent. But there's another story that most media have completely overlooked: that the supply chain which gets those magazines on newsstands is itself broken, with one major...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- A Whopping 94 percent of Magazines Hit by Ad Losses
- Q-1 was a bloodbath for the magazine industry. According to the Publishers Information Bureau, the 246 titles it tracks collectively lost almost $1.2 billion in advertising revenue compared to the first quarter of 2008, for a 20.6 percent decline. In round numbers, what was a $5.7+ billion industry a year...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
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- Magazine Industry Takes Direct Hit
- The better part of a lifetime ago, when I was a young editor at my college paper, the Michigan Daily, most of us said we would be pursuing journalism careers after we graduated. These included Dan Okrent, Walter Shapiro, Howard Kohn, Robin Wright and many, many others. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- When China wakes - China's magazine industry, includes related article on International Data Group's operation in China - Cover Story
- Untouched by Asia's financial problems, a Chinese magazine industry is reborn.
- Research articles 1998-06-01
- Hot gossips: Once again the gossip titles are the jewel in the magazine industry's crown, while in the men's and women's lifestyle sector, size is a major preoccupation
- In the same week that research suggesting an avid interest in celebrities and their lives could be bad for our mental wellbeing hit the headlines, the magazine industry publishes its circulations report. The Anglo-American report says about a third of people are suffering from "celebrity worship syndrome", and the Audit...
- Research articles 2003-08-21
- The Magazine Industry, Where Slightly Down Is the New Up
- The magazine industry is in such bad shape that some execs are happy that ad spending declines for December aren't down as much as they were during some periods of this year. A few are even seeing ad spending gains. by Catharine P. Taylor
- Blog posts 2009-10-31
- Conde Nast's Offering for Apple's Mystery Tablet: Wired Magazine [MediaMemo]
- Here's yet another content creator that's convinced that Apple has a tablet device in the works: Conde Nast says it will have a digital version of Wired magazine ready for the rumored gadget by the middle of next year, and will eventually create similar versions for all of its 18...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Early First Half 2009 Magazine Circulation Numbers Are a Mixed Bag
- The early "Rapid Report" numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations for the first half of the year are in. But even if magazine circulation is, not surprisingly, down in many cases, it isn't exactly what it seems. For once, the Great Recession is only partially to blame. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- TV Guide Magazine Cuts Include Publisher, Four Other Senior Staff
- BusinessWeek employees, read this carefully. Could be your potential future owner. TV Guide magazine, now owned by PE Firm OpenGate Capital one of the four shortlist bidders for BW, laid off Pete Haeffner, TV Guide publisher since October 2005, along with four other colleagues, reports Minonline. Others leaving are...
- External links 2009-10-01
- Magazine Machinations: The Surprise and Angst of Going Digital
- The bankruptcy of Reader's Digest is yet another reminder of the magazine industry's weighty dilemma: Much of its branded print content is devaluing faster than it can be exploited online. As some general interest publications fall away and some savvy niche titles thrive on the Web's long tail, the search...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Magazine Revenues Take a Long-Term Vacation
- Mid-summer is almost always a slow period for magazines -- ad revenue takes a seasonal dip right along with many magazine readers, though the latter are having more fun The second quarter revenue figures are out today from the Magazine Publishers of America MPA, and those magazine...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- The State of the Magazine Industry
- Magazine publishers have had the comparative luxury of sitting back and watching the long, slow-breaking tsunami that is the web pummel the newspaper industry for long enough now that they somehow seem better positioned to survive their own gathering storm. That, at least, is one impression from...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Magazine Industry Continues to Nosedive
- Julia Boorstin submits: It seems like nearly every month there's a different reason to lament the decline and fall of the publishing industry. Now it's the magazine business that's looking messy, as the Audit Bureau of Circulation's has just released sales numbers for the first half of the year....
- External links 2008-08-14
- The Magazine Industry on the Verge
- These quotes are from today's editorial breakout sessions from the MPA's first-ever "Innovation Summit" here in New York, where tonight it is raining quite hard. John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist: "What is the new 'normal' going to be for magazine publishers? The old 'publisher model,' where we...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Publishing & Production Executive Magazine Names CMP Media's Stephen Grande to Production Executive's Hall of Fame
- MANHASSET, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 2, 1998--Stephen J. Grande Sr., CMP Media's vice president of manufacturing, has been selected as the 1998 magazine industry honoree for induction into the Production Executive's Hall of Fame. The award, sponsored by Publishing & Production Executive magazine, recognizes long-standing service and outstanding achievement in the field...
- Research articles 1998-09-02
- WANDERLUST FOR THE WEB: Why Magazine Pros 6 Left Print
- The magazine industry continues to lose top thinkers and seasoned executives to the online world. Here's a look at why six took the leap, and what they found. ANONYMOUS WHY SHOULD ANYONE ABANDON A CAREER at a print magazine for afar riskier job at an Internet content venture?...
- Research articles 2000-09-15
- Magazine readers focus on the future with Harry Potter-style ads
- When readers of Entertainment Weekly open their magazines next month, they will discover characters from US television programmes speaking to them from a wafer-thin video screen. The marketing experiment - by CBS, the US broadcaster, and soft drinks maker PepsiCo - recalls the fantasy newspapers of the Harry Potter films....
- News items 2009-08-20
- Spring brings high-level moves - Michael Rooney hired by Disney Publishing as publisher of ESPN magazine; Suzanne Grimes replaces Deanna Brown as publisher of Conde Nast Sports for Women - Brief Article
- The merry month of May brought about several high-profile moves in the magazine industry. Disney Publishing officially announced an early 1998 launch of the biweekly ESPN Magazine, with Michael Rooney moving over from Times Mirror Magazines, where he was publisher of Field & Stream and Outdoor Life, to serve as...
- Research articles 1997-06-01
- Corel® Channel Program Continues Strong Leadership Position with Two Awards from VARBusiness Magazine; Industry Publication Distinguishes Program with a Perfect 5-Star Rating and Names Fiaaz Walji to Top 100 Channel Executives List
- OTTAWA -- A year after revamping its channel program to become the most flexible, partner-centric in the software industry, Corel Corporation was recently bestowed two major honors from VARBusiness, with the magazine giving the Corel Channel Partner Program a 5-Star rating and naming Fiaaz Walji, director of channel sales, to...
- Research articles 2006-04-03
- Magazine employment dips in January - January 1993
- The magazine industry lost 300 jobs in January, according to figures released March 5 by the U.S. Labor Department, ending a two-month gain that many were hoping would stretch into the new year. There were 124,100 people employed in the periodicals industry in January. On the bright side, the decline...
- Research articles 1993-04-01
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