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Press Gazette
on 2 December 2010 at 14:58
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Customer publishing, Magazines, Media Business
The magazine industry has been hit considerably harder by the advertising crash than other media resulting in 319 fewer titles in circulation in Britain now than in 2009, according to a report. (more…)
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Press Gazette
on 29 November 2010 at 15:10
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Magazines, People
National Magazine Company reporter Alex Harris was named overall newcomer of the year at the annual PTC New Journalist of the Year Awards.
Harris collected the award on Friday at Vinopolis on London’s South Bank after having earlier won in the new consumer journalist of the year category. (more…)
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Dominic Ponsford
on 25 November 2010 at 10:38
Tags: B2B Magazines, Magazines, People, awards
A pair of journalists who defied the recession to launch a niche business travel website won the Outstanding Achievement Award at this week’s Business Travel Journalism Awards.
Mark Frary and Betty Low were praised for launching Public Sector Travel - a part free, partly paywalled website aims at those involving in booking business travel in the public sector. (more…)
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Press Gazette
on 23 November 2010 at 13:00
Tags: B2B Magazines, Magazines, awards
Farmers Weekly has scooped two of three prizes at the annual Guild of Agricultural Journalists of Great Britain Awards.
Freelance Nancy Nicolson won in the environment category for her Farmers Weekly article about the effect of poor yields from farming in the Scottish hills. (more…)
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Press Gazette
on 18 November 2010 at 10:37
Tags: B2B Magazines, Magazines
After an 18-month drive to offload a number of its B2B titles and the recession-driven collapse of advertising markets, the prospects for Reed Business information are on the up, its parent company Reed Elsevier said this morning.
Reed said good growth income from data services and advertising and further restructuring of the business were contributing to its improvement – however, it did not release any financial details for RBI. (more…)
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Press Gazette
on 9 November 2010 at 10:50
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Magazines, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online, People, Regional Newspapers, awards
Leading journalists working in the health and medical fields were recognised last week at the Guild of Health Writers Awards 2010.
Journalists collected prizes across eight categories at the ceremony at the Royal Society of Medicine, in London, on Thursday. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 9 November 2010 at 10:45
Tags: B2B Magazines, Magazines, National Newspapers, Newspapers, Photography
The Telegraph has carried an obit paying tribute to former editor of the British Journal of Photography Geoffrey Crawley who exposed the myth of the Cottingley Fairies in 1982.
For 60 years many had believed that photographs taken at the bottom of the garden by two little girls were of real fairies. But Crawley demonstrated in a series of articles that the pictures were faked prompting the two girls, by then elderly women, to admit their deception.
The Telegraph reveals how Crawley gently wrote to Elsie Wright, one of the perpetrators of the hoax, to tell her of his findings:
“Of course there are fairies – just as there is Father Christmas,” he wrote. “The trouble comes when you try to make them corporeal. They are fine poetic concepts, taking us out of this at times too ugly real world. Conan Doyle, after the horrors of the First World War in which his son died, wanted to suggest a realm where spirit forms just might exist.”
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Press Gazette
on 27 October 2010 at 14:56
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Customer publishing, Magazines, New Media, Online
Sky Magazine Live – which is produced by Future Media’s customer publishing division – collected three Digital Magazine Awards today including being named magazine of the year.
The digital publication was also named magazine launch of the year and lifestyle magazine of the year at the awards to celebrate the most influential titles in digital publishing.
Property Week Global Interactive was named digital news & business magazine of the year, beating competition from Sky News Election Special, which was second, and Orange Exchange Online
A full list of the winners of the 15 categories can be found on the awards website.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 12 October 2010 at 10:40
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Dominic Ponsford
on 4 October 2010 at 17:11
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Magazines
Property Week has produced its fifth interactive magazine. This time it’s a joint venture with Investors Chronicle and it will be sent out to a claimed readership of 80,000.
It is worth checking out as another interesting example of what can be done on this new editorial platform.
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Dominic Ponsford
on 4 October 2010 at 10:16
Tags: B2B Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Media Business, National Newspapers, New Media, Online
Stephen Glover today questions the long-term financial situation of Guardian Media Group following news last week that Trader Media Group has written £463m off the value of Auto Trader Magazine. GMG owns a 50.1 per cent stake in TMG.
The write-down gave TMG a £503.3m pre-tax loss for the year. But it should be noted, as the Telegraph reports, that TMG has been massively successful in migrating print revenues to digital. The TMG annual report states: “The large majority of TMG’s value now lies with Trader Digital. The impairment does not, therefore, reflect a fall in the actual or inherent value of TMG, but rather the transfer of value from publishing to digital.”
According to a GMG spokesman the write-down “has zero impact on the overall value of Trader Media Group”.
They told Press Gazette the accountancy rules stipulate that the value of the print business had to be written down, but they do not allow TMG to “write-up” the corresponding increase in value for the digital business.
Glover writes today in his media column for The Independent:
“Though GMG is very far from the edge, it may not have sufficient resources to prop up its heavily loss-making national newspaper operation ad-infinitum. The Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk are probably still losing around £30m a year, and it is difficult to see how even with the slight uplift in advertising revenue (up 13 per cent in the last three months year-on-year at the Mail titles) these losses can be much reduced without further cutbacks. (more…)
Posted by
Alexandra Zeevalkink
on 21 September 2010 at 16:24
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, awards
The magazine publishing wing of the BBC received a total of 18 nominations today as shortlists were announced for the British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) Awards 2010.
The BBC’s nominations came in ten of the 22 award categories - including launch of the year and editor’s editor of the year.
IPC Media was close behind with 17 nominations, followed by the National Magazine Company with 13 nominations. Condé Nast Publications and Redwood each garnered ten nominations. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 20 September 2010 at 10:28
Tags: B2B Magazines, Customer publishing, Magazines
Former Cedar Communications board director Dan Davey has joined Progressive Media to launch a new customer publishing division.
Press Gazette was bought by Progressive in April last year and the group also includes New Statesman.
Progressive Customer Publishing is described by Progressive as “a new company focused on delivering contract publishing solutions across online and offline platforms, both domestically and internationally”.
Progressive has offices in the UK, USA, India and Australia and states that it has 2000 employees globally.
CEO of Progressive private portfolio companies Joe Terreni said: “As a fast-expanding media group already publishing over 200 trade and business magazines, 100 websites and managing 50-plus events, it was a natural extension to launch a company focused on contract publishing. (more…)
Posted by
Oliver Luft
on 16 August 2010 at 09:43
Tags: B2B Magazines, Magazines, New Media, Online
Reed Business Information has sold its Utility Week title to Croydon-based media company Faversham House for an undisclosed sum. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 4 August 2010 at 10:50
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Newspapers, PR
The Guardian reports today on the booming business being done by UK PR agencies to improve the reputations of foreign regimes with dubious human rights records.
It cites the example of Foreign Direct Investment magazine, part of the Financial Times group, which it says sent a journalist to Rwanda on a trip paid for by the PR company Racepoint.
“You used to Google Rwanda and the first thing you would see would be about genocide,” Racepoint managing director Cathy Pittman told The Guardian. “Now we are feeding content and stories to journalists about the economy and culture. A lot of it is about images.”
The FDI piece, which is behind a paywall but appears on the journalist’s own site, states: “For the past 20 years, Rwanda’s image has been dominated by scenes of genocide and civil war. However, with its tourism sector now thriving, and areas such as ICT, banking and energy set to follow suit, Rwanda is poised to become Africa’s newest success story.”
And the journalist reports: “…the country has taken impressive strides in everything from the rule of law – it prides itself on having zero corruption – to nine years’ free mandatory education.”
A bold claim indeed.
It is a fact of life that journalists need to accept freebies to do their jobs sometimes, especially when it comes to overseas travel. But it does seem that there is a strong case for the PCC to insist that any report which has been financially supported, for instance by a PR company who has paid for flights, should include that information.
Update 5 August: Rwanda has suspended 30 media organisations ahead of its elections, Africa’s “newest success story” indeed.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 20 July 2010 at 08:26
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Customer publishing, Magazines, National Newspapers, Student Journalism
The Sun has launched a competition for budding journalists aged 16-21 to find the next Kelvin MacKenzie or Jane Moore.
Column Idol is being run with the charity Media Trust and offers the winner the chance to have a full-page column published in the paper, to visit the Sun offices and receive mentoring from top Sun staffers. Details of how to enter are here.
Meanwhile the Periodical Publishers Association has launched a new mentoring scheme called Magnet to promote diversity in magazine publishing. Under the scheme students from “under represented groups” on PTC-accredited courses will be matched with mentors from the magazine industry and offered work experience, guidance and networking opportunities.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 25 June 2010 at 16:06
Tags: B2B Magazines, Magazines, New Media, Online
Here’s the latest interactive magazine from Property Week.
The 24-page supplement has a World Cup theme and carries loads of snazzy interactive content.
It was created in-house by Property Week staffers using the web-based Ceros platform and uses flash animation.
Editor Giles Barrie told Press Gazette that it cost £6,000 to produce but has made a five-figure some in terms of advertising.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 21 June 2010 at 10:12
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Magazines, awards
A GQ front cover featuring a scantily-clad Sienna Miller has been named magazine cover of the year at the Maggies, the annual awards organised by iSubscribe. You can view the other winners here. And here are my three favourites from the shortlist.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 8 June 2010 at 10:28
Tags: B2B Magazines, Broadcast, Journalism, Magazines, Television
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, officially launched in April, has completed its first investigation working with the British Medical Journal and Al Jazeera English.
It investigates conflicts of interest surrounding the World Health Organisation declaring a swine flu pandemic in June 2009 and its scientific advisors who also stand to gain from drug companies who make money manufacturing vaccines. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 20 May 2010 at 13:11
Tags: B2B Magazines, Broadcast, Magazines, Television
A freelance journalist has alleged he was assaulted by a police officer whilst filming at an incident in Oldham.
Stuart Littleford is a broadcast journalist and is also editor of the Government and Public Sector Journal. He is quoted on the GPSJ website saying: “Suddenly, without warning, the officer…came up to me…grabbed my coat with both hands, lifting me off the ground throwing me back along the footpath into the side of a fire engine. I banging my head and camera against the engines door and mirror sending bystanders over in the process.”
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