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- 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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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/ (...)
Media Bistro - 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 (...)
Media Bistro - 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 (...)
Media Bistro - 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 (...)
Media Bistro - 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 (...)
Media Bistro - 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 (...)
Media Bistro - 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 (...)
Media Bistro - 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: (...)
Media Bistro - 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 (...)
Talking New Media - 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 (...)
Media Bistro - 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 (...)
Media Bistro - 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 (...)
Media Bistro - 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 (...)
Media Bistro - 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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