Posted by
William Turvill
on 3 February 2012 at 11:40
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Business
Bloomberg Markets has announced it will release a spin-off lifestyle magazine distributed with its March 2012 edition.
Set to be distributed to all subscribers, Bloomberg Pursuits is the company’s first luxury lifestyle publication and will be published twice a year. (more…)
Posted by
William Turvill
on 2 February 2012 at 12:17
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Media Business, awards
Property Week’s Nick Johnstone was awarded a double honour at the Periodicals Training Council’s 2012 New Talent Awards.
As well as picking up the new business deatures journalist of the year award, Johnstone also won the biggest prize on offer, the Grand Prix.
Shortlist.com’s Tom Cullen, was named new editor of the year, and Amy Grier, of Shortlist’s sister title Stylist, won new consumer journalist of the year. (more…)
Posted by
Cleland Thom
on 1 February 2012 at 09:10
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Journalism Technology, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers
Twitter’s decision to introduce a new “censorship policy” could prove to be a blessing in disguise to enterprising journalists.
The US-based social network has decided “to reactively withhold” content from users on a country-by-country basis.
It says the change will enable it to “enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression”.
Posted by
William Turvill
on 31 January 2012 at 10:18
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Business, People
Luxury magazine publisher Aston Greenlake has appointed Scott Manson, formerly editor of Loaded magazine, as its new editor-in-chief.
Manson, who took over at British Airways title High Life after leaving Loaded, joins with a brief to launch new magazine titles in the luxury market. (more…)
Posted by
William Turvill
on 26 January 2012 at 09:58
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Business
Emap has announced the appointment of a new chief executive of its Insight division.
Stephen Wilson, who previously worked at Thomson Reuters for more than ten years, will join the media group on 9 April.
Part of the wider Emap company, Insight’s products – which include eight websites - provide reports, news, data and analysis across the retail, fashion, automotive, built environment, political and media industries.
Posted by
William Turvill
on 23 January 2012 at 10:46
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines
Condé Nast International has revealed it will launch Glamour magazine in Brazil later this year.
The magazine, the UK’s best selling women’s monthly with an ABC sale in the UK of just over 530,000, is set to launch in the South American country in March.
Founded in the US in 1939, Glamour magazine claims a global readership of 31 million across 16 different countries.
Posted by
Jennifer Norton
on 20 January 2012 at 09:06
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Newspapers
The National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN) says the results of a consumer survey make an “overwhelming’” case for an Office of Fair Trading review of the newspaper and magazine industry.
The survey, which was carried out by HIM Research and Consulting, asked over 1,400 consumers about their magazine and newspaper habits. (more…)
Posted by
Christian Jensen
on 16 December 2011 at 10:54
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, National Newspapers, People
Tributes are being paid to journalist, polemicist, atheist and left-wing campaigner Christopher Hitchens - who died last night.
Vanity Fair, the magazine where Hitchens was a contributing editor, today produced this video tribute:
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 12 December 2011 at 09:07
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines
A new study found people were unable to distinguish between descriptions of women used in lads’ mags and comments made by convicted rapists.
The research, due to be published in the British Journal of Psychology, also revealed most men who took part in the study “identified themselves more with the language expressed by the convicted rapists”. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 25 November 2011 at 08:09
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Mobile, New Media, Online
Free weekly Sport magazine has today launched a free weekly iPad app.
The app does more than just mimic the magazine - it utilises iPad-friendly design templates and includes addition interactive commercial and editorial content. It is created by the existing Sport production team. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 26 October 2011 at 10:39
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Mobile, New Media, Online
Music monthly Uncut has brought out a one-off iPad edition - David Bowie: The Ultimate Music Guide.
It features 600 interactive pages including archive material from NME and Meody Maker and new review of every Bowie album. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 17 October 2011 at 11:07
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Newspapers, People, Regional Newspapers
The Daily Telegraph today pays tribute to the founder editor of Saga Magazine, Paul Bach, who has died aged 72.
An obituary in today’s Daily Telegraph tells the story of how Bach rose from a reporter on a weekly newspaper to starting what would eventually become the largest-circulation monthly magazine in Britain.
Bach was born in Forest Gate, East London, and found his first job as a reporter on the Stratford Express, before moving to South Wales and taking up various posts with Thomson Regional Newspapers (and winning an award for his coverage of the Aberfan disaster in 1966).
He was later editor in chief of the Celtic Press group of 12 regional newspapers and became editor of the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph in 1972.
In 1976 he returned to East London as group editor of the Stratford Express series before making the move into public relations in 1979 when he moved to Saga Holidays in Folkestone.
Posted by
Kelly Alford
on 16 September 2011 at 08:28
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines
Look magazine has launched a new range of cosmetics that will be sold in Superdrug stores with a percentage of proceeds going to a national cancer charity.
The Look Beauty cosmetic range includes nail varnishes, eyeshadows, lipsticks and how-to kits, and seeks to raise money for charity Look Good… Feel Better, which helps women cope with the visible side effects of cancer treatment. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 8 September 2011 at 07:57
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, National Newspapers, Newspapers
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne suggested that readers of men’s monthly GQ are wankers when he picked up the prize for politician of the year at the mag’s annual awards event last night.
Picking up the award, Osborne said (reports the Mirror):
“It is a pleasure to win this award. I’ve just come from addressing about 300 bankers in the City of London and it says something about my profession that I was still the most unpopular person in the room. It is a fine recognition. (more…)
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 18 August 2011 at 07:35
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Customer publishing, Magazines
Check out the Press Gazette homepage from midday today for the most comprehensive coverage you’ll find anywhere about the consumer magazine industry ABC figures for the first half of this year.
Find out if the news mags are still going from strength to strength, if the men’s market is still in freefall and how all the rest of the UK’s hundreds of consumer mags are faring in the still-tough UK economic climate.
Here’s how we covered the consumer magazine industry ABC figures last time (figures for the last six months of 2010).
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 15 August 2011 at 07:48
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines
IPC has announced a relaunch of weekly lads’ mag Nuts ahead of ABC sales figure for the second half of the year which are due to be announced on Thursday.
Editor Dominic Smith said in a press statement that after six months of market research they had found that the magazine’s mix of “girls, sport and especially humour is as an important antidote” to the increasing pressures young men face.
The relaunch is being backed, IPC said, by a £500,000 marketing campaign.
In the last six months of 2011 sales of Nuts fell 19.6 per cent to 142,212. For in-depth coverage of all the consumer magazine industry ABC figures log on to Press Gazette from midday on Thursday this week.
Here is the full press release from IPC on the Nuts relaunch: (more…)
Posted by
Michelle Alexander
on 4 August 2011 at 10:34
Tags: Consumer Magazines, International, Journalism, Journalism Technology, Magazines, Media Business, New Media, Online, People
AOL launched its daily Editions magazine Ipad app in the US yesterday and revealed that it has plans to launch a UK version at some point in the last quarter of this year.
Described as “the magazine that reads you”, it claims to learn readers’ interests by selecting articles based on keywords they select as they read.
Content is taken from AOL-run websites including Huffington Post, Moviefone, Patch, Engadget and Stylelist. AOL also syndicates content to Editions from sources such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Tree Hugger. (more…)
Posted by
Nada Issa
on 26 July 2011 at 10:38
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines
Prime Minister David Cameron took time out from dealing with the crisis in the Eurozone and the phone-hacking scandal to guest-edit this week’s edition of the Big Issue .
The Conservative leader visited the magazine’s offices in Vauxhall, South London, spoke to a group of vendors about selling the magazine and met editorial staff.
Cameron explained his reasons for accepting the invitation to guest-edit the title, writing: “First and foremost because it’s a great magazine and it’s a great honour to be asked to edit it.’ (more…)
Posted by
Myriam Dijck
on 20 June 2011 at 12:49
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines
A row between two Surrey-based dog magazines has escalated into a bitter dispute involving legal threats and the police, according to the Daily Mail.
The dispute began when the editor of long-established monthly Dogs Today found out that a rival had set up a quarterly publication with the tagline “the first and only dog magazine”.
Beverley Cuddy, 48, told the Mail she wrote a “very polite” email to the new magazine called Surrey Dog’s Life, asking it to remove the tagline. When this was ignored, she issued a formal warning to drop the claim within two weeks.
Editor of Surrey Dog’s Life, Lizette Roux, said she felt intimidated and made a complaint to the police about harassment - the Mail reports.
In Ms Cuddy’s blog, she called it an “unbelievably harrowing experience” and denied she ever made any threats to the rival editor.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 5 April 2011 at 08:04
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines
Jemima Khan has guest-edited the New Statesman this week bringing in a host of high-profile names for a special on free speech.
Khan has worked with the News Statesman, which like Press Gazette is owned by Progressive Media, on an issue including contributions from two Oscar winners and an interview with the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins takes the press to task while Oliver Stone – the director of JFK, Nixon and W. – gives his verdict on Barack Obama.
There are also contributions from Julian Assange, who argues that WikiLeaks follows in the best traditions of the radical press, alongside columns by the comedian Russell Brand, the singer Jarvis Cocker and the England cricketer Kevin Pietersen.
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