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Press Gazette
on 27 January 2010 at 09:21
Tags: Advertising, Consumer Magazines, Magazines
Music magazine NME has been criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority for running an ad for a fashion brand that featured a man putting a gun to the head of a second man. (more…)
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Press Gazette
on 26 January 2010 at 11:10
Tags: Advertising, Magazines, Newspapers, People, Regional Newspapers, awards
Regional newspaper and magazine publisher Archant hosted its annual awards last Friday to recognise the achievements of its staff. (more…)
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Press Gazette
on 26 January 2010 at 08:56
Tags: Magazines, Newspapers
The Press Complaints Commission needs to undergo wide-ranging reform to meet the expectations of the general public, according to a media charity.
The Media Standards Trust has submitted 28 recommendations to the PCC’s own governance review which it believes would make the organisation “more effective, more accountable and more transparent while maintaining the key principles of self-regulation.” (more…)
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Press Gazette
on 20 January 2010 at 08:59
Tags: B2B Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Media Business, Online
UPDATE 11.10: Emap has also moved Architect’s Journal behind the paywall
Emap’s building industry title, Construction News, is the latest to plan a switch to a subscriber-only web service as its owner continues with its drive to move all its websites to paid-for access. (more…)
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Press Gazette
on 19 January 2010 at 16:28
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, National Newspapers
The men’s lifestyle magazine Nuts has signed up the cult football comic Striker - four months after its daily run in The Sun newspaper came to an end.
The strip follows the triumphs and tribulations of the Warbury Warriors and was created 25 years ago by Pete Nash, who has given Nuts exclusive print rights.
The computer-generated Striker will appear on one page every week from 26 January.
Nash said: “A weekly format, rather than daily, will give me time to work on developing Striker into a movie and possible TV series.
“Talks are at an advanced stage with two producers and I can’t wait to see Striker characters come to life in Nuts and then on screen.”
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 19 January 2010 at 10:36
Tags: Consumer Magazines, International, Magazines
Magazine publisher Conde Nast has revealed it plans to launch a new edition of it’s luxury travel magazine Conde Nast in India.
The first issue of Conde Nast Traveller India will hit newsstands in October this year.
It will be the sixth international edition of the magazine. It will be published bi-monthly and aimed at affluent Indian readers interested in luxury travel experiences.
The decision follows the successful launch of Vogue and GQ in India.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 18 January 2010 at 13:42
Tags: International, Magazines, Newspapers, Online
German news publishers have lodged a complaint against Google for not paying publishers for news article “snippets” that come up in search results, Zeit and The Guardian reported.
The complaints by the Federation of Newspaper Publishers (BDZV) and Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ) come as newspaper revenue declines and calls for publishers’ copyright increase. (more…)
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Dominic Ponsford
on 14 January 2010 at 08:59
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, Media Business
Pre-tax losses at Time Out Group rose to £3.1m in 2008 on turnover up 13.6 per cent to £29.4m, the Evening Standard reports.
Although print circulation of the flagship weekly London listings magazine has been down, the website attracts 1.8m unique users a month - the group said in its annual accounts.
Founder Tony Elliott told the Standard that he has invested £3m to keep the group solvent.
Despite the pre-tax loss, Time Out made operating profit of £343,000 before exceptional items.
Posted by
Phil Scullion
on 13 January 2010 at 16:12
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, New Media, Online
The New Statesman has launched an online business section which will feature as many as 30 stories a day on finance and economics news.
Areas covered will include automotive, banking and insurance, energy and clean technology, food and drink, healthcare and pharmaceuticals and technology. (more…)
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Dominic Ponsford
on 13 January 2010 at 13:04
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines
Sad news from Canada, where the country’s second oldest magazine has been forced to change its name because email spam filters have blocked readers.
Being called The Beaver could potentially be a boon in terms of search engine optimisation. But the 90-year-old Winnipeg-based magazine has found the opposite to be the case.
Publisher Deborah Morrison told AFP (via France 24): “The Beaver was an impediment online. Several readers asked us to change the title because their spam filters at home or at work were blocking it. I’ve even had emails bounce back because I had inadvertently typed the term in the heading.
“Nearly a century ago, it probably seemed the perfect name for a magazine about the fur trade and Canada’s northwest frontier. There was only one interpretation for the word then.
“But you’re likely to find a lot of (porn) sites now if you search for the title of our history magazine online.”
After the Feb/March issue The Beaver will be renamed Canada’s History.
The magazine of the London School of Economics, also called The Beaver, has not revealed any plans to change its name.
Posted by
Dominic Ponsford
on 13 January 2010 at 12:46
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines
Private Eye claimed a scalp today as the boss of the British Association of Social Workers left his job following a story last week in the fortnightly satirical magazine.
According to Community Care, Private Eye last week carried a string of allegations about BASW chairman Tim Chittleburgh’s private business dealings. He declined to comment to the magazine.
A statement on the BASW website says: “Following an article featured in Private Eye last week, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) can confirm that Tim Chittleburgh voluntarily stepped aside from his role as UK Chair of BASW in December 2009 following a serious complaint that was been made to BASW regarding his own business affairs.
”On receipt of the complaint, BASW immediately began investigating the matter under their procedures for determining member’s standards of conduct and Tim has ceased duties at BASW until the procedure is complete.
“Tim strongly refutes the allegations made against him and is fully co-operating with BASW investigations.”
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Press Gazette
on 11 January 2010 at 10:27
Tags: B2B Magazines, Magazines, Media Business, Newspapers
Guardian Media Group and private-equity firm Apax have agreed to pump more money in business publisher Emap to aid acquisitions.
The Sunday Times reported yesterday that GMG had “pledged … to support an acquisition drive with fresh funds”.
A source close to GMG told Press Gazette the agreement to back Emap buying other business titles was ‘in principle’ only at this stage and that there were no potential purchases in the pipeline and no money had yet been committed. (more…)
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Dominic Ponsford
on 11 January 2010 at 10:00
Tags: Free Newspapers, Journalism, Magazines, National Newspapers, Newspapers, Regional Newspapers
The British library’s newspaper archive at Colindale is set to close by 2012, to be replaced by a digital reading room in St Pancras.
The comprehensive archive of national newspapers, regional newspapers and magazines will be preserved at a new state of the art storage facility in Boston Spa, Yorkshire - The Guardian reports.
Some 750m newspapers going back 300 years and taking up 50km of shelf space are housed at Colindale.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 11 January 2010 at 08:43
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, National Newspapers, New Media, Newspapers, Online
Ever wondered what it would be like to work on News of the World’s Fabulous magazine? Well, wonder no more. (more…)
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Dominic Ponsford
on 7 January 2010 at 09:46
Tags: B2B Magazines, Magazines, Media Business
Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier has revealed that it is selling off its US trade magazines business RBI piecemeal.
In 2008, plans to sell off RBI - which in the UK publishes titles such as Farmer’s Weekly, Estates Gazette and New Scientist - were abandoned after the estimated bid price for the business dropped from £1.3bnn to £650m.
The FT and others reports today that John Poulin, chief executive of Reed Business Information in the US, has told employees he expected to announce the sale of various titles to separate buyers in the coming months.
“This unfortunately will result in title closures and job losses across the business,” Poulin wrote in a memo to staff at the end of December.
“I know this will come as a major disappointment but it reflects the impact of the structural changes in our markets, accelerated by the recession.”
The last year has seen restructuring in Reed’s Sutton-based RBI business information and magazines business.
In July, 2009, it sold its travel portfolio - including Travel Weekly magazine - to the entrepreneur behind Holiday Autos Clive Jacobs.
And in November it closed 130 year-old weekly magazine for the construction industry, Contract Journal.
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 6 January 2010 at 11:31
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, Photography
Vanity Fair’s February cover photo of a half-naked Tiger Woods, which for obvious reasons received widespread media interest yesterday, was taken long before the scandal of recent weeks. (more…)
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Press Gazette
on 6 January 2010 at 10:34
Tags: Consumer Magazines, Magazines, New Media, Online
Marie Claire has forged a partnership with MSN UK that will see the glossy supply fashion and beauty editorial from its website to the search portal. (more…)
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Press Gazette
on 5 January 2010 at 13:12
Tags: B2B Magazines, Journalism, Magazines, New Media, Newspapers, Online
Reporters from recently closed US press trade magazine, Editor & Publisher, are looking to keep the title alive by filing articles to the new blogging site E&P In Exile. (more…)
Posted by
Press Gazette
on 5 January 2010 at 11:32
Tags: Consumer Magazines, International, Journalism, Magazines, Photography
Tiger Woods is no stranger to being on front covers at the moment. Despite recent…shall we call them ‘challenges’… to his popularity US Vanity Fair’s February issue joins the throng by leading with a photo of the fallen golf star lifting dumbbells semi-naked.
The “raw, never-before-seen” photos, which will hit newsstands next Tuesday in the UK, were taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz before the car + crash + golf club + sex scandal.
Buzz Bissinger’s article that accompanies them then dwells on the “tales of kinky extramarital sex” in lavish detail.
The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist writes: “Tiger’s story has been driven by sex, tons of it, in allegedly all different varieties” before listing some of the more colourful stories.
In the “greatest single fall in popularity of a non-politician” Vanity Fair notes how Woods’ US approval rating has plummeted from 87% in 2005 to 33% in mid-December.
Posted by
Emma Day
on 18 December 2009 at 16:21
Tags: B2B Magazines, Consumer Magazines, Customer publishing, Journalism, Magazines, People
Lord Heseltine has sent an upbeat farewell message to staff today, saying that their recent “trading in many divisons has been better than we forecast”, as he prepares to take a step back from the running of magazine publisher Haymarket. (more…)
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