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NEWS ABOUT: magazine publishing

magazine publishing stories: 11 news summaries
OPINION

  Gone With Gourmet: 
 a Taste for Expertise 

There is no 'hard-won blood-on-the-floor kind' of editorial experience on the Web

Oct 8, 09 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Gourmet magazine absorbed his Cook’s in 1990, Christopher Kimball discovered the hard way that the publishing business is “a top-down, winner-take-all proposition, an oligarchy of sorts.” But the frazzling encounter also afforded him a meeting with Conde Nast chairman Si Newshouse, who “poured... More »

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Internet • blogging • cuisine • eating • Conde Nast • magazine publishing • Gourmet • Julia Child • Si Newhouse • S.I. Newhouse

 Condé Nast Axing Gourmet, 
 3 Other Titles 

Magazine publisher could lose $200 million this year, industry sources say

Oct 5, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Condé Nast will shut down iconic foodie magazine Gourmet as well as newer title Cookie and Brides offshoots Modern Bride and Elegant Bride, CEO Charles Townsend announced today. Hundreds of jobs will be lost in the company’s biggest single day of closings, the More »

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magazine • recession • Conde Nast • magazine industry • magazine publishing • Gourmet

 Condé Nast Shutters Portfolio 


Apr 27, 09 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Condé Nast’s once-ballyhooed Portfolio magazine will cease publishing immediately, staffers were told this morning. “The five main categories of advertising a publication like ours depends on are really in trouble,” Condé Nast’s group president told the New York Times. The magazine launched in April... More »

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news • Conde Nast • magazine industry • magazine publishing • financial crisis

Hearst to Roll Out E-Reader for Newspapers, Magazines

Publishing giant aims to save periodicals with new device

Feb 27, 09 6:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Hearst Corporation aims to do for periodicals what the Kindle's doing for books with a new electronic reader, CNN reports. The company—which publishes an array of magazines and newspapers, including Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle—hopes the device will help cushion revenues in light of sinking ad... More »

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newspaper • magazine • publishing • consumer electronics • Kindle • magazine publishing • Hearst • e-readers

 Christie Hefner 
 to Leave 
 Playboy 

Founder's daughter moving to non-profit ventures

Dec 8, 08 1:46 PM CST
(Newser) - Christie Hefner is stepping down as CEO of Playboy after 20 years at the helm of her father Hugh’s operation, she tells the Chicago Tribune. The company’s stock is down, and it has shuttered key divisions, but Hefner, 56, said her resignation was a personal choice. She intends... More »

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Chicago • pornography • resignation • Playboy • Hugh Hefner • magazine publishing • The Girls Next Door • economic downturn • Christie Hefner

 Downturn Hammers 
 Magazine Industry, Too 

Condé Nast, Time, McGraw-Hill cut jobs as ad dollars slow

Oct 31, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The economic downturn is taking its toll on magazines, forcing layoffs and budget cuts as publications face fewer advertising dollars, Women’s Wear Daily reports; the trouble is compounded as production costs soar while readers turn to the Internet. Magazine ad revenue fell 5% in the first three quarters of... More »

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New Yorker magazine • Vogue • Conde Nast • magazine industry • magazine publishing • McGraw-Hill • Portfolio

Rolling Stone
Shrinks to Smaller Format

After 40 years, magazine shifts to a more standard size

Oct 14, 08 5:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Who better to welcome an iconic shift at Rolling Stone than self-proclaimed agent of change Barack Obama? The presidential candidate beams on the smaller, standard-sized cover of the Oct. 30 issue, which features a glossier, thicker look after 41 years of the large format. Last month's final big issue featured... More »

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music • Rolling Stone • magazine • magazine publishing • Jann Wenner • publishing industry

New Service
Is Like Netflix
for Magazines

Maghound will give subscribers more choice, flexibility

Jul 5, 08 6:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Subscribing to a magazine was once a 1-year commitment, but Time Inc.’s Maghound is changing that, reports Folio. The Netflix-like service launching this fall offers “flexibility, choice, control and personalization,” says Maghound's president. The service allows customers to swap subscriptions at any time, liberating readers from... More »

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online retailers • magazine • subscribers • subscription • magazine industry • magazine publishing • Maghound • Dave Ventresca

Legendary
New York Editor Dead at 82

New Journalism pioneer Felker defined city magazine format

Jul 1, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Clay Felker, founder and editor of New York magazine, died today at 82. Felker was the pioneer of a distinctive format that has become the model for weekly magazines: long, novelistic features alongside short, spicy service pieces. "Clay was obsessed with power, and he invented a magazine in the... More »

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New York • obituary • magazine • journalism • print industry • magazine industry • print journalism • magazine publishing • Clay Felker

Cockfight Mag Forced Off Amazon.com

Humane Society
sued, said publication boosted illegal sport

May 21, 08 6:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a victory for the Humane Society, the publisher of The Gamecock has agreed to stop selling its publication on Amazon.com. The anti-animal cruelty group had sued Amazon to remove the magazine—which it says promote cockfighting—from its site, charging the online retailer with violating federal law, the... More »

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censorship • Humane Society • cockfighting • Amazon.com • magazine publishing

OPINION

McSweeney's
Is Taking Over the World

Soon we'll all wear cool glasses and pray daily to Michael Chabon

Feb 6, 08 4:22 PM CST
(Newser) - McSweeney's, the hipper-than-thou literary quarterly founded by Dave Eggers in 1998, has become possibly the most influential American literary journal, critic and novelist Stephen Amidon writes in the London Times. Once the champ of spotting new talent, Granta magazine is now taking a backseat to Eggers' baby, and looking stale... More »

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literature • McSweeney's • Dave Eggers • magazine publishing

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