2/23/2005 - Daily Print Media Business News:
Internatonal Print Media News:
2/23/05 - The New York Times International Weekly Supplement Launches In Izvestia Of Russia:
NEW YORK-- The New York Times announced today that it has launched its New York Times International Weekly in Russia's daily newspaper Izvestia. The first edition was published on February 21. Izvestia joins a growing number of newspapers that publish the supplement, which is designed to complement and enhance news coverage for their local audiences. The supplement will be published in English each Monday.
business wire
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050222/225944_1.html
2/23/05 - APN publishing earnings rise despite Herald on Sunday costs:
Media company APN achieved a 16 per cent increase in full year earnings at its New Zealand publishing business despite the $3 million cost of launching its Herald on Sunday.
stuff
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3196234a13,00.html
2/23/05 - Mobile Entertainment hits B2B market:
The fast-growing mobile content sector is set to gain its first business publication, Mobile Entertainment, from next week.
mediaweek uk
http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/articles/folder2005/Feb05/22/mobileentertainment-b2b
2/23/05 - Magazine distribution set for major overhaul:
The system behind distribution of magazines is facing its biggest shake up in modern times after the Office of Fair Trading today ruled that the current system was anti-competitive.
mediaweek uk
http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/articles/folder2005/Feb05/22/ift-magazinedist-ruling
2/23/05 - FT to publish men's fashion supplement:
The Financial Times will publish a glossy colour supplement, The Business of Fashion: Women’s Wear Spring/Summer 2005 on 25 February.
mediaweek uk
http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/articles/folder2005/Feb05/FT-menswear-supp
2/23/05 - Publishing for the posh kids - Wonderland Magazine:
Affluent urban consumers are the target of a new lifestyle title launching in September. Bi-monthly publication Wonderland, published by London-based Visual Talent, is aiming at readers who boast an average salary of £60 to £80,000, probably have been University educated and are aged 25 to 45.
mediaweek uk
http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/articles/folder2005/Feb05/22/wanderlandlaunch
2/23/05 - Kent Messenger to offer polybagging:
The Kent Messenger Group has become what it claims is the first regional publishing house in the UK to offer a polybagging facility with its newspapers.
mediaweek uk
http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/articles/folder2005/Feb05/kentmessenger-polybag
2/23/05 - UK Newspaper Launches Blog:
The Observer newspaper in the UK will launch a blog this coming Sunday.
web pro news
http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050223UKNewspaperLaunchesBlog.html
2/23/05 - Vioxx backlash could help drugs' print ads:
NEW YORK - Criticism of aggressive direct-to-consumer promotion of prescription drugs sparked by the recent withdrawal of Merck & Co.'s arthritis drug Vioxx could be a boon to print advertising, a prominent magazine executive said on Thursday. But advertising industry insiders do not believe the major drug companies will pull back from their omnipresent television campaigning unless forced to do so by federal regulators.
muzi.com
http://dailynews.muzi.com/ll/english/1338638.shtml
2/23/05 - International: Svenska Dagbladet is recognized World's Best-Designed Newspapers with four other titles:
Out of 423 newspapers worldwide, the Society for Newspaper Design recognizes Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) and four other newspapers as the World’s Best-Designed Newspapers™:
publicitas
http://www.publicitas.com/display.asp?id=6.8&chp=6.3&foot=6.9&cpny=*&PARAM1=13646
2/23/05 - Indian Express to launch Kolkata edition:
The Express Group is launching a Kolkata edition, to supplement the prowess of the Financial Express in the region. The launch is slated within a few weeks.
exchange 4 media
http://www.exchange4media.com/e4m/news/newfullstory.asp?section_id=5&news_id=15091&tag=9826
2/23/05 - Magazine distribution is anti-competitive, says OFT:
The magazine industry is facing a radical shake-up after the Office of Fair Trading ruled its distribution arrangements were anti-competitive.
media guardian
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,1423596,00.html
National Print Media News:
2/23/05 - Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia shows signs of turnaround; is it sustainable:
NEW YORK - When Martha Stewart is released from prison next week, the doyenne of domesticity will return to the multimedia company she founded which faces a much brighter outlook than when she was convicted of lying about a stock sale only a year ago.
ap via yahoo
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2148&ncid=2148&e=19&u=/cpress/20050222/ca_pr_on_bu/martha_stewart_outlook
2/23/05 - Martha Stewart Living records quarterly loss:
NEW YORK, - Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. (MSO.N) , whose namesake founder is set to be released from prison next month, on Wednesday said it had a loss in the fourth quarter on sluggish magazine advertising and weakness at its television unit.
reuters
http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh49795_2005-02-23_13-00-51_n23538744_newsml
2/23/05 - Bauer Publishing is Number One on Newsstand According to FAS-FAX Report:
Bauer Publishing is the number one seller of magazines on the newsstand in the United
business wire
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050223/235223_1.html
2/23/05 - Pulitzer says has clearance for buyout by Lee:
NEW YORK, - Newspaper publisher Pulitzer Inc. (PTZ.N) on Wednesday said the regulatory waiting period for its acquisition by Lee Enterprises Inc. (LEE.N) had ended.
reuters
http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?duid=mtfh50861_2005-02-23_13-33-11_n23431764_newsml
2/23/05 - Gannett Board Approves 27-Cent Dividend:
MCLEAN, Va.-- A quarterly dividend of 27 cents per share was declared today by the Board of Directors of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI). The dividend is payable on April 1, 2005 to shareholders of record on March 4, 2005.
business wire
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050222/225653_1.html
2/23/05 - Get Fashionable With Taxi Tops:
Taxi tops are getting cooler. Wireless and GPS can deliver everything from sports scores to info about up-to-the-minute lunchtime sales, all customizable block-by-block. Clear Channel is even at work on "Smart Tops," which would have three LCD screens and feature Flash animation. Or, if you're Glamour, you can do it the old-fashioned way: by volume. For the month of March, the magazine will own 60 percent of the taxi-top inventory in New York--that's 3,000 cabs, a figure Glamour says is a record. What's the special occasion? The big March fashion issue, for one. adweek
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=628&ncid=628&e=2&u=/adweek/20050222/ad_bpiaw/shoptalkgetfashionablewithtaxitops
2/23/05 - Fast Company Magazine Names New Publisher:
NEW YORK, -- Russell Denson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing, names Matthew T. Barba, former associate publisher of Atlantic Monthly, to the position of publisher for Fast Company magazine effective March 1.
pr newswire
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050223/nyw037_1.html
2/23/05 - Match.com Launches Happen Magazine(TM):
DALLAS, -- Match.com today announced one of the most significant online launches for America's 80 million single people with the premiere of Happen Magazine(TM) (www.happenmagazine.com) -- the first and only online magazine focused exclusively on dating and relationships. Offering unique, original and provocative editorial content, the magazine is masterminded by Editor-in-Chief Janet Siroto, who comes from executive editor positions at Redbook and Cosmopolitan.
pr newswire
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050223/sfw074_1.html
2/23/05 - Can The Tabloid Format Save Newspapers?:
As consumers have increasingly turned to television and the Internet for news, the circulation of paid newspapers has declined by 2% to 4% annually for more than a decade in most developed markets.
forbes
http://www.forbes.com/commerce/2005/02/22/0222mckinsey.html?partner=yahoo&referrer=
2/23/05 - Stopping The Presses:
NEW YORK - A decade or so ago, pre-Internet, a McKinsey consultant told me that the future for serious newspapers wouldn't be to sell hundreds of thousands of copies for 50 cents each but to have their journalists talking on the phone to readers for $500 an hour. This reductio ad absurdum of personalization sounded nuts at the time. Almost ten years into the Internet revolution, it doesn't seem so daft, though not for the reasons originally advanced. Online news sites (including our own), free from print's constraints of time and space, are using the medium to aggregate and deliver information tailored to each user in a way a newspaper never can. Where does that leave the printed word?
forbes
http://www.forbes.com/home/business/2005/02/22/cx_pm_0222news.html
2/23/05 - All The Loyalty That's Fit To Print:
NEW YORK - The New York Times Co. just bought the world's biggest blog. OK, About.com isn't technically a blog, but it is a massive collection of content produced by non-journalist experts. For a small salary, 500 About.com guides produce myriad Web pages that the company turns into cash by selling ads. Together the guides have amassed 1 million pages covering 55,000 topics, from fly-fishing to cross-stitching.
forbes
http://www.forbes.com/ebusiness/2005/02/23/cx_pp_0223nyt.html
2/23/05 - Edinburg newspaper stops daily production:
EDINBURG — The Edinburg Daily Review will no longer be daily, starting today. he 91-year-old publication has been scaled back from a five-day newspaper to printing Wednesday and weekend morning editions. The revamped eight-page Edinburg Review will now be free and no longer delivered door-to-door to residents. The circulation figure was unavailable.
the monitor
http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=5841&Section=Valley
2/23/05 - Transporte Latino Magazine Celebrates Its Fourth Year in the Trucking Industry:
LOS ANGELES, -- The first and only audited magazine dedicated to serving the expanding Hispanic community within the trucking industry goes nationwide. Just four years ago Ricardo Rodriguez-Long and Edgardo Iorio, both working in the trucking sector launched a magazine in Spanish to cater to over 500,000 Spanish speaking commercial truck drivers over the road.
the auto channel
http://www.theautochannel.com/F/news/2005/02/22/000795.html
2/23/05 - MagazineLaunch.com Website Launched to Provide Online Resources for Magazine Startups in a Dynamic & Interactive Format:
The 2005 MagazineLaunch.com website provides articles, resources, forum topics, magazine launch announcements, and a growing publisher resource directory.
pr web
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/2/prwebxml211061.php
2/23/05 - New Look for 'Savoy' Magazine's Relaunch:
News & Notes with Ed Gordon, February 22, 2005 · If you're browsing through magazines on your local newstand this week, you may notice that Savoy magazine is back. Once dubbed "the black Vanity Fair," the new Savoy is a slightly heftier and glossier magazine than the one that disappeared two years ago. Monique Carridine on the rebirth of Savoy.
npr
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4508282&sourceCode=RSS
2/23/05 - Good Design is Good Design -- Or is it?:
Good design is functional design, whether we talk about toasters, fishing rods or newspaper pages. Good design allows the product to do what it was created to do efficiently, effectively and elegantly. A well designed toaster, for instance, should toast the bread (or many kinds of bread) to the degree desired, quickly and with minimal fussing with dials and knobs. Looking good in the process is a not inconsequential plus.
business journalism
http://www.businessjournalism.org/content/6209.cfm
2/23/05 - Mags Plan $40 M Ad Blitz:
WE'VE heard the mantra for decades now, print is dead, newspapers and magazines are in peril. Now the Magazine Publishers of America, in an aggressive bid to put the industry's best foot forward, is kicking off a massive $40 million, three-year ad campaign.
ny post
http://nypost.com/business/41053.htm
2/23/05 - Europe Teems With Web Dailies That Twit the Mainstream Press:
PARIS - The brothers David and Alfonso Rojo are pioneer publishers who monitor the heartbeat of their Spanish digital "newspaper of newspapers" with periodic glances toward tiny numbers on a computer screen in Madrid. Mornings are the most satisfying for David Rojo, who labels his competitors the "traditional and rotten press." His Web portal, Periodista Digital, is one of the most widely read digital dailies in Spain, with 115,000 registered subscribers.
ny times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/business/worldbusiness/21rags.html?
2/23/05 - N.Y. Times boss: We'll adapt, fix mistakes:
The closest thing to newspaper royalty stopped by St. Petersburg on Tuesday evening to express his surprise at the speed of change in journalism, acknowledge past faults in his newsroom and himself, and boast that his paper is ready to deliver news to his readers in whatever form they want.
stpetersburg times
http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2005/02/23/Columns/NY_Times_boss__We_ll_.shtml
2/23/05 - V Life uploads style onto Net via new site:
Variety inaugurated on Tuesday a Web site, VLifeMag.com, as an online companion to its V Life magazine.
variety
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117918349?categoryid=21&cs=1&s=h&p=0
2/23/05 - B-to-b publishers face imminent hike in paper prices:
Due to a combination of factors, including a strike at a paper mill in Canada, prices for 100 pounds of No. 5 coated groundwood stock are expected to rise about $3, or roughly 5%, on March 1, according to industry observers. International Paper and MeadWestvaco have already announced price hikes. "Every indication that we have is that all the others will follow suit, and it will stick," said Ron Brockman, production director for Vance Publishing Corp.
btob
http://www.btobonline.com/article.cms?articleId=23412
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