Media News

• February 03 · min online
  Joe Lagani Is Getting Into His Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Comfort Zone
  The hired-in-November MSLO chief revenue officer recently made the first hire in his own right with recruiting Peter Medwid from Coastal Living / Sunset publisher to be publisher of the Martha Stewart (...)
  
• February 03 · min online
  MIN’S WEEKLY BOXSCORES (week of February 6, 2012)
  MIN’S WEEKLY BOXSCORES (week of February 6, 2012) Issue Date 2012 Ad Pages Issue Date 2011 Ad Pages % of Diff. YTD 2012 YTD 2011 % of Diff. AMERICAN PROFILE 2/05 6.55 2/06 9.10 -28.02 48.72 70.14 -3 (...)
  
• February 03 · min online
  With Its Second Single-Topic Issue, “Food Network” Goes From Ciao To Chocolate
  March is very big in the women’s beauty/fashion sector, but Food Network magazine founding editor-in-chief (June 2009) Maile Carpenter says that it is dullsville in her sphere, with no stimulants su (...)
  
• February 03 · min online
  Bruce Brandfon’s Duties At “Scientific American” Are Divvied Up
  The publisher (since October 2001) announced on January 30 that he was stepping down in mid-March “to assume an advisory role,” and in this climate it is no surprise that on February 2... (...)
  
• February 03 · min online
  Maybe Florida Voters Would Rather Be In Philadelphia
  News that many of the estimated 500,000 Floridians who cast ballots before the January 31 Republican primary did so absentee (others... (...)
  
• February 03 · min online
  Media Stocks (+1.6%) Had A Less Prosperous January Than The Dow (+4.0%).
  Or the Nasdaq Composite (+9.8%), as Google’s -9.4% performance to 5.11 per share (below year-end 2010’s 3.970) put a drag on the 28-stock min Index. (Prices are through... (...)
  
• February 03 · min online
  STOCK WATCH (February 2, 2012, Wall Street Close)
  COMPANY [SYMBOL] PRICE %/Change COMPANY [SYMBOL] PRICE %/Change 2/2 2012# 2011@ 2/2 2012# 2011@ APPLE INC. [AAPL] $ 455.12 +12.4 +41.1 NEWS CORP. [NWSA] $ 19.61 + 9.9 +19.4 BELO, A.H. CORP. [BLC] 7.72 (...)
  
• February 03 · min online
  You Pinterested, Yet?
  By Steve Smith As Facebook filed last week for a initial public offering (IPO) that could value the company at up to 0 billion, it is easy to presume that the social media competition has been won. (...)
  
• February 03 · min online
  ‘Men’s Journal’s’ New Logo Is A Bit Of A Gamble
  Typically, magazine redesigns are the “answer” to problems, but the March 2012 overhaul led by Men’s Journal editor (since November 2010) Jason Fine follows the December/January 2011 cover of Da (...)
  
• February 03 · min online
  “People Stylewatch’s” Issue-By-Issue Ad-Page Winning Streak
  In March 2009, People StyleWatch was in its third year as a standalone formed from People’s fashion and accessory editorial, and the 35 ad pages for a spring preview spoke for themselves. But then t (...)
  
• February 03 · Folio Magazine
  Jobson Medical Information Holdings Files for Chapter 11
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• February 03 · Media Jobs Daily
  Jobs Of The Day: New And Improved Edition
  We’re trying a new format for our semi-regular job board posts…how do you guys like this? Journalism jobs:news line producer (Woodbury, NY)news and sports reporter (Clayton, GA)journalist/ (...)
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• February 03 · Media Jobs Daily
  If Media Job Postings Were The Only Metric, We’d Say The Economy Was Stuck
  The good news this morning (economy added almost a quarter-million jobs last month!) doesn’t, it seems, extend to the media market. As we mentioned, the industries that added the most jobs were (...)
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• February 03 · Media Bistro
  Reporter Tallies Lakers vs. Clippers Tattoos
  Another day, another bit of fodder for the Lakers vs. Clippers debate. Actually, make that two bits. Along with Friday’s news that the Clippers have signed free agent Kenyon Martin, LA Times rep (...)
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• February 03 · Media Jobs Daily
  Is Gamification The New Marketing Strategy?
  Gamification has been the buzzword in industries from education to health and wellness to even recruitment, and there are some who suggest that gamification has already jumped the shark, but until tod (...)
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• February 03 · Media Bistro
  Mel Gibson May Have to Testify In LASD Discrimination Trial
  Mel Gibson may be called to testify in the discrimination case of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputy James Mee. Mee is the deputy who arrested Gibson back in 2006, and who Gibson allegedly (...)
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• February 03 · Media Jobs Daily
  Twitter Case Allowed To Proceed
  A motion by Noah Kravitz to dismiss the case against him by Phonedog was denied this week, reports ReadWriteWeb. As a reminder, Kravitz, a former employee of PhoneDog, changed his Twitter handle when (...)
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• February 03 · Media Bistro
  San Diego Union-Tribune To Launch Television Network
  San Diego-based KPBS television and radio producer Megan Burke is tweeting up a storm about a proposed plan by San Diego Union-Tribune (we’re still not ready for U-T San Diego) CEO John Lynch to (...)
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• February 03 · Media Bistro
  LA Journalist Angered by Nightline Story Lift
  Amanda Hess, lifestyle editor at GOOD, has a right to be upset. As she tweeted last night, Nightline on Thursday completely ripped off her November 2011 profile of rising male porn star James Deen: (...)
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• February 03 · Talking New Media
  Bonnier's Technology Group launches its fourth tablet edition using the Mag+ platform – American Photo+
  Bonnier's Technology Group, which includes Popular Science, Popular Photography, American Photo and Sound + Vision, launched its fourth tablet edition this week with the release of the new iPad app Am (...)
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• February 03 · Media Bistro
  Report: Bay Citizen in Merger Talks with California Watch
  It sure didn’t take long for Phil Bronstein to make some major additional impact on California Watch. Just weeks after leaving the San Francisco media world for the vanguard non-profit’s B (...)
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• February 03 · Media Bistro
  Arianna Huffington Outlines Her Vision of New Streaming Video Network
  AOL/Huffpost is taking a serious plunge into the video content business with their Huffington Post Streaming Network. By this summer, HPSN plans to host 12 hours of daily weekday programming. Accordin (...)
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• February 03 · Media Bistro
  Gasland Filmmaker Josh Fox Arrested By Capitol Hill Police
  Academy Award-nominated Gasland documentarian Josh Fox was arrested Wednesday while attempting to cover a public congressional hearing on the controversial oil extraction process “fracking.R (...)
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• February 03 · Media Bistro
  Andre Ethier’s Arizona Compound Trips Up Reporter’s GPS
  Fun interview on the MLB Network with Dodgers star Andre Ethier. Especially because it was conducted by Kevin Millar at the outfielder’s five-acre Arizona compound. Millar started off by joking (...)
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• February 03 · Media Bistro
  Josh Groban Serenades KCRW DJ Anne Litt
  Wow! That’s all we can say after listening to singer Josh Groban‘s tuneful jingle about KCRW DJ Anne Litt. In his playful intro to the instant-mega bragging rights ditty, Groban jokes that (...)
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