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Bob Fleck Promoted to 'Chicago Tribune' VP/Advertising
The Chicago Tribune has promoted Bob Fleck as vice president of advertising. He was previously advertising director for city retail, entertainment, and automotive categories. Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | Virtual AdTaker Apps in Biloxi, Houston
McClatchy's Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss., has begun using Realty Ad Express from Virtual AdTaker, Englewood, Colo., while ASP Westward LP, publisher of Houston Community Newspapers and Colorado Community Newspapers, is using Virtual AdTaker's Web-to-print/Web application for obituaries. Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | Transcontinental Reorgs Marketing Sector
Transcontinental started reorganized it division serving one-to-one advertising and other new communication platforms. Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | Cablevision to Re-brand 'Newsday' Auto Classifieds
Cablevision Systems, the new owner of Newsday, is re-branding the print and online auto classified section of the Melville, N.Y.-based paper as Optimum Autos, effective Jan. 1. Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | Klamath Falls 'Herald and News' Carrier Drowned in Car Crash
A 20-year-old man has been charged with vehicular manslaughter in the death of his 18-year-old sister, who delivered newspapers for the Herald and News of Klamath Falls. Posted Thursday, November 6, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | 'USA Weekend' Alters Logo for 'Twilight' Movie Cover
USA Weekend, the weekly companion to USA Today, has announced that its Nov. 16 issue will feature a special cover for the premiere of the much-anticipated "Twilight" movie. The cover will represent only the second time in a decade that USA Weekend has changed its blue-and-white logo. Posted Wednesday, November 5, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | IFRA Announces XMA Cross-Media Award Winners
IFRA has published the winners of its XMA Cross Media Awards for 2008. The focus of this year's international competition was advertising. Publishers from 27 countries entered 66 projects. Posted Wednesday, November 5, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | Classified Ventures' Homescape Signs Century 21 Brokers
Homescape, the national real estate search site owned by the newspaper joint venture Classified Ventures, announced Tuesday it has forged advertising partnerships with several Century 21 broker councils. Posted Tuesday, November 4, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | 'Philadelphia Trib' to Publish First Newsstand Edition On Nov. 5
The Philadelphia Tribune is set to distribute a special newsstand edition of the paper on Wednesday, Nov. 5 carrying full coverage of the presidential election. Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 12:00 am CDT
| | Stop Trumpeting Circ Losses And Report Growing Audience, MediaNews Exec Says
MediaNews Group Vice President of Research wants newspapers to stop their "self-flagellation" with widely reported circulation declines -- and to start telling the story of growing newspaper audiences. Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:00 am CDT
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Oregon Outdoor Reporter Dies at 50
Jim Witty, the outdoor reporter for The Bulletin newspaper in Bend, died Monday of causes yet to be determined. He was 50. Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | 'Providence Journal' Gets New Executive Editor
Thomas Heslin has been named vice president and executive editor at The Providence Journal. Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | 'Frederick News-Post' Trims Its Newsroom
The Frederick News-Post is laying off 16 employees, including four people from the newsroom. Posted Tuesday, November 4, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | Raleigh 'News & Observer' Editor Praised for Her Work Dies at 54
A former award-winning journalist for The News & Observer who won praise for editing a series about an unborn baby's surgery has died. Posted Monday, November 3, 2008 12:00 am CST
| | Chicago Suburban 'Daily Herald' Publishes Last Dog Column As Author Retires At 91
The Daily Herald in suburan Chicago published the final "Just Dogs" column Tuesday, marking the retirement of its columnist, Alice Terrill, at age 91. Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:00 am CDT
| | 'Richmond Times-Dispatch' Deputy Editor Wins 2008 Bastiat Prize
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch Deputy Editor Bart Hinkle has been awarded the International Policy Network's 2008 Bastiat Prize for Journalism. The award was announced at IPN's 2008 Bastiat Prize Dinner in New York City. Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:00 am CDT
| | Tribune D.C. Bureau Cuts Expected
The ongoing cost-cutting at Tribune Company is apparently soon headed for its Washington, D.C., bureau, according to The Washington Post. Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:00 am CDT
| | 'Providence Journal' Gets New Political Columnist
Edward Fitzpatrick is the new political columnist for The Providence (R.I.) Journal. Fitzpatrick most recently covered Rhode Island¿s state and federal courts for the newspaper. Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 12:00 am CDT
| | 'El Paso Times' Names New Editor
Chris Lopez, a 25-year veteran of daily newspapers, has been named editor of the El Paso Times. Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 12:00 am CDT
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Remaindered Links November 19, 2008
“Ziff Davis To Close Print PCMag, Focus On Online; Still Looking For Options For Gaming Division” -from PaidContent.org
“Adobe Max 2008, Michael Zimbalist, vice-president, research and development operations at the New York Times Company demoed an advanced news reader application that properly renders articles and media content as they were intended, regardless of what size of display or [...]
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:06 pm CST
| | WSJ.com and FT.com Subscription Revenue Jumps 15% in 10months!
January 2, 2008 from paidcontent.org: “a new report from Bear Stearns analyst Spencer Wang. WSJ.com revenue is currently pegged at $78 million annually, based on an estimated 989,000 subscribers paying $79/year”
November 5, 2008 from paidcontent.org: “WSJ.com is making more than $200 million from advertising and subscriptions, News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert [...]
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:56 pm CST
| | Remaindered Links November 18, 2008
“Pacific Northwest regional news Web site Crosscut.com, founded by David Brewster, likely will morph into a nonprofit, as online advertising revenue has fallen short of projections.” -The Seattle Times
“Google has just added image archives from LIFE Magazine, the storied American photo journal, to its image search. Google Images has launched a special page for the [...]
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:56 pm CST
| | Newspaper Industry Needs Outside Help, Concludes Closed Door Summit!!!
The newspaper industry is reaching “full-blown crisis” stage and will probably not be able to halt the slide without outside help, concluded the American Press Institute during a CLOSED DOOR “summit” conference held on Thursday. -from the api website
I wanted to help and begged to be invited to this conference. They said no. So [...]
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 3:21 pm CST
| | 800 Newspapers From NewspaperDirect Now Available on iRex Digital Reader, Featuring ‘Electronic Paper’ Display
By offering people a wide range of popular handheld devices on which they can read their favorite newspapers, NewspaperDirect gives publishers more ways to reach their readers.
Source: NewspaperDirect Official Release
Monte-Carlo, Monaco, November 12, 2008 — NewspaperDirect Inc., the world leader in multi-channel newspaper and magazine content distribution and monetization, is introducing its PressDisplay.com online news [...]
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 2:56 pm CST
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NYT Critic Barnes Dies at 81
Clive Barnes, longtime theater and dance critic for the New York Post, has died. Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:48 am CST
| | Time Spent on Top News Sites in Decline
Following the same trend in September, the average time spent per person on newspaper Web sites declined in October year-over-year as monthly uniques soared. Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:08 am CST
| | Updated: Fresh Cuts at Time Inc.
More heads are rolling at what’s left of Time Inc.’s Southern Progress Corp., which recently was folded into a Lifestyle Group under a recent company-wide reorg. Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:43 am CST
| | Monitor: Publisher-Reported Ad Pages Drop 9% in '08
For all of 2008, publisher-reported ad pages in consumer magazines fell 9 percent, with all categories feeling the pain of the broad-based economic slump, according to just-published figures in the Mediaweek Monitor. Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:27 am CST
| | PC Magazine Folds Monthly Print Edition
In the latest contraction of the computing magazine category, Ziff Davis Media said it would fold flagship PC Magazine with the January issue and convert the brand to an all-digital format at PCMag.com. Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:55 am CST
| | What's Behind Fall in Papers' Web Rev. Growth
Amidst the plague-like conditions newspapers are facing — the locusts eating up print ad revenue, a flood of ill will from Wall Street, the arid credit markets, and crushing loads of debt — publishers could once at least find relief in the steady, often strong growth of online ad revenue. For several years, executives touted the double-digit rise in online dollars as the reason to keep believing in newspapers. Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:36 am CST
| | Meredith Takes Stake in Social Network
Meredith Corp. is getting deeper into social networking, making a minority investment in Real Girls Media Network, a San Francisco-based network of online communities for women including DivineCaroline.com. Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:22 am CST
| | Time Inc. Folds Cottage Living and its Web Site
Publisher tossing yet another title on the trash heap of shelter magazines that have closed in the past year amid a challenged housing market and broad economic downturn Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:11 am CST
| | Publisher Chris Allen Out at Time Inc.'s Cooking Light
Another longtime Time Inc. publisher is leaving the building. Chris Allen, who presided over the steady rise of Cooking Light, is parting ways after 17 years at the healthy lifestyle title and 26 in all at the parent company and subsidiary Southern Progress Corp. Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:21 am CST
| | Forbes Cuts 43 in Sales and Marketing Mash Up
Reversing a longstanding practice of maintaining separate print and online sales staffs, Forbes Media is slashing 43 jobs as it makes official a long-anticipated move to mash up its print and online sales and marketing groups Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 4:29 am CST
| | ASME Revamps Guidelines as Clients Push Ad/Edit Rules
At a time when buyers are getting bolder about crossing the church-state boundary, the American Society of Magazine Editors last week said it would revamp its 26-year-old editorial guidelines. Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 11:01 am CST
| | Business Boom
Even as the economy tanks and many magazines take a dive, business titles clearly are not hurting for readers. Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 11:01 am CST
| | Bauer, Forbes Add to Growing Mag Company Layoffs
Newsstand publisher Bauer Publishing Group contributed to the mounting body count in the magazine industry this week, laying off five editorial people from celeb weekly Life & Style. Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 4:00 am CST
| | Former Rolling Stone Publisher Lands at Luxury Mag
Forthcoming luxury lifestyle magazine Prestige New York has landed former Rolling Stone publisher Ray Chelstowski, who got the boot in August from the Wenner Media title, to lead its sales effort. Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 11:56 am CST
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In an otherwise dismal time for magazines, today was a happy day at Meredith Corp.’s More, which showed a 23.8 percent year-over-year jump in the closely watched metric of reader household income. Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:01 am CST
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With ad revenue declines worsening across the magazine industry, Condé Nast lowered the boom at its digital division Nov. 11.
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 2:41 am CST
| | NYT's Schiller Jumps to NPR as President, CEO
The New York Times' Vivian Schiller has jumped to National Public Radio as president and chief executive officer, effective Jan. 5, 2009. She succeeds Dennis Haarsager, who served as interim CEO since March. Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:39 am CST
| | Rodale's Q3 Sees Decline
Rodale’s third quarter revealed a declining financial picture, results that last week prompted the company to lay off 111 staffers, or 10 percent of its workforce.
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:35 am CST
| | Trib Ad Revenue Nosedives
The Tribune Co. reported a Q3 loss of $124 million from continuing operations compared with income of $84 million for the same period last year. Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:52 am CST
| | Updated: Time Inc. Calling for Buyouts
With a handful of higher-ups having already exited, Time Inc. is moving to the rank-and-file as it, like other publishers, seeks to reduce its workforce in the face of dropping ad revenue. Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 12:56 am CST
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