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Top 5 Weekly/Biweekly Five-Year Report: 'Bloomberg BW' and 'Autoweek' Rev Their Engines

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:55:27 EST

Concluding our five-year analysis of magazine advertising, we take a look at weekly and biweekly boxscores for 2007-2011 in min (February 6). Only seven of the 30 mags that we track had an upward gain in ad sales for 2011. Three titles deserve recognition here: Bloomberg Businessweek, Autoweek and New York...

Smithsonian Turns Magazine Into Touch Museum on iPad

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:08:21 EST

Venerable print brand and legendary museum Smithsonian meets the shiny new object. Smithsonian magazine yearns to become something closer to a living museum as it finally brings its monthly title to the iPad in a fully enhanced edition. Selling for $3.99 an issue or by subscription for $19.99/yr or...

Postage Stamp Honoring Ebony Founder John H. Johnson Is Dedicated

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 9:02:18 EST

Since 1945, a company has bore John H. Johnson's name. Now, a postage stamp does, too, with the Jan. 31 dedication at Johnson Publishing Co. corporate headquarters in Chicago. Johnson (1918-2005) rose from poverty to launch Ebony (1945) and Jet (1951), which made him a leader...

The Other 89%

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 19:46:42 EST

This isn’t a typo. I am not referring to the 99% movement that began to sweep the country last year. But, an important data point was released by GFK/MRI late last year that is worth noting: the 89%! What am I talking about? Back in November, GFK/MRI released its first wave of data that measured both...

Huh? Most Tablet Mag Readers Are Fine With Facsimiles

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:27:45 EST

After designing all of that eye candy, tap functionality and whirling dervish interfaces, publishers may be disappointed to hear that many users would just as soon their tablet magazines calm down. According to the latest survey of GfK MRI’s iPanel of tablet owners who read magazines on their devices...

Jean de Boisdeffre Named Hearst Magazines International Senior VP/Advisor

Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:28:07 EST

Jean de Boisdeffre, CEO of Lagardère Active's international magazines' business until the May 31, 2011, closing of Hearst Magazines' acquisition of the Elle- and Woman's Day-flagshipped Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. (part of Hearst Corp.'s 640 euros/$848...

Domino Brand Returns For Special Issues

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 7:02:24 EST

Among the many casualties of the Great Recession in both the U.S. economy and the magazine industry in the last few years, Domino magazine has been among the most missed. In fact in our own May 2010 poll at minonline, Domino was declared the “most missed” of defunct books, right in front of Spy...

Jeff Tkach Promoted to Organic Gardening Publisher

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:32:45 EST

Jeff Tkach, who has run Organic Gardening's day-to-day business activities since becoming associate publisher in 2009, became the Rodale Inc. bimonthly's first dedicated publisher in recent memory with his promotion on Feb. 6. Tkach continues to report to Rodale senior VP/publishing director...

Vogue 'Stars' at the Super Bowl

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:05:40 EST

February is typically a busy month for Vogue and editor-in-chief (since June 1988) Anna Wintour, with the fashion weeks in New York (starting Feb. 9), Paris and Milan and culminating with the Condé Nast monthly's influence on Hollywood fashion with the Feb. 26 Academy Awards. But Vogue at...

The Atlantic Brings Civil War Issue to the Web

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:42:47 EST

Marking the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, one of the few American magazines that was there to witness the original event issued a digital version of its commemorative issue this week. The Atlantic was but four years old when hostilities broke about between North and South. In this volume it...