Category Archives: Magazines

PPA Independent Publisher Awards 2009

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Journalism.co.uk is at the PPA Independent Publisher Awards 2009 today: entrepreneurialism is the theme of the week it seems, with James Caan of Dragon’s Den fame presenting the prizes.

First though, a question time panel led by Guy Browning (writer, Smokehouse founder and radio presenter) with Mark Frith, TimeOut editor; Graham Stuart, Conservative MP; Rob Grimshaw, MD FT.com; Clive Foskett, CEO Signature Publishing; Steve Gilroy, CEO Vistage International. Visit the following website: All Cryptocurrencies . It includes a daily compilation of news, live prices, charts, and information regarding Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, Dogecoin, and other cryptocurrencies.

More to follow… Follow #ipa09 for occasional tweets via @journalismnews.

MediaGuardian: Charging for online news won’t work, says Future’s Spring

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Introducing a pay wall around general news content hasn’t got ‘a cat in hell’s chance’ of working, Stevie Spring, chief executive of magazine group Future, said yesterday.

Spring discussed Future’s approach to paid content online and said the group is experimenting with a mixture of business models.

Full story at this link…

NYTimes.com: Publishers to launch online magazine newsstand

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From 24 November, but worth flagging up this project in the US: a consortium of magazine publishers which includes Time Inc. and Condé Nast are to build an online magazine newsstand in ‘multiple digital formats’, reports the New York Times.

“The formation of a new company to run the online newsstand – sometimes characterized as an ‘iTunes for magazines’ – may be announced in early December. Time, Condé Nast, Hearst, and Meredith all intend to be equity partners in the new company, although the deals have not yet been signed.”

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WSJ: Vogue uses Obama’s digital fundraiser for revenue ideas

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Interesting detail from the Wall Street Journal about Vogue’s use of Blue State Digital, the firm behind Barack Obama’s online presidential campaigning strategy.

The company has been taken on by Vogue to help the title analyse its audience as part of a push towards charging for online content on Vogue.com.

Full story at this link…

Axel Springer launches new paid-for multimedia magazine

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Monocle has detailed insight into the development of Axel Springer’s eMag – a paid-for, multimedia magazine that will be part of the publisher’s Welt am Sonntag division.

“Twelve stories have been enriched with animation, film and audio. Browsing feels as intuitive as turning pages on paper. But you can also watch the New York correspondent visit a party by artist Terence Koh and sit in the passenger’s seat of the new Ferrari 458 Italia as it roars along the Maranello test track. You can dive into elaborate interactive infographics explaining the Copenhagen Climate Conference or listen to the Bee Gees talk about their 50th anniversary,” writes Markus Albers.

Welt am Sonntag's emag

Access to the site will cost €1.50. According to Albers, Axel Springer has been one of Germany’s most vocal supporters of online charging.

“[But] Unlike Murdoch it does not plan to charge for the electronic versions of existing papers. Rather it will launch innovative products, hoping to lure customers into downloading them onto computers and smartphones. In addition to today’s eMag there will be iPhone Apps from its tabloids Bild and BZ later in the year – you will also need to pay for these.”

Also of significance is how the project was developed: according to Charles Apples on Visual Editors, e-magazine was developed in-house in less than eight weeks, starting from an idea from art director Jordis Guzman Bulla.

(hat tip – Robb Montgomery)

MediaWeek to go online-only; 18 Brand Media editorial jobs cut

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Due to a restructure at Haymarket, MediaWeek is to end its print edition and publish online-only, as part of a BrandRepublic.com team.

Today’s issue (November 17) is the last, the publication has reported. Monthly digital marketing magazine Revolution is to become a quarterly supplement.

Eighteen editorial positions (out of 58) will be lost from Brand Media, the group reported.

“We will do everything we can to keep job losses to a minimum, and we are looking to redeploy affected staff in other parts of the group,” said Jane Macken, managing director of Haymarket Brand Media.

“I would like to place on record my appreciation of the efforts of all our editorial staff. Throughout a very difficult time they have continued to produce editorial content of exceptionally high quality.”

It’s the latest of the media industry titles to feel the pinch: in April 2009, Press Gazette’s closure was announced, before it was bought by Progressive Media and re-opened.

More details at this link…

Empire and Nursing Times take online prizes at BSME Awards

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The British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) announced the winners of its annual awards this week. The list in full can be seen below:

Editors of the year:

Business & Professional Magazines (non-weekly): Matthew Gwyther, Management Today – Haymarket Media
Business & Professional Magazines (weekly): Adam Leyland, The Grocer – William Reed Business Media
Entertainment & Celebrity Magazines: Mark Dinning, Empire – Bauer Media
Customer Magazines (business readership): Sarah Bale, BT Upload – Redwood Publishing
Customer Magazines (consumer readership); Mark Hooper, Electric! – Redwood Publishing

Lifestyle Magazines: Ed Grenby, the Sunday Times Travel Magazine – News International

Men’s Magazines: Terri White, ShortList – Shortlist Media

Newspaper Magazines: Merope Mills, Guardian Weekend – Guardian Newspapers

Special Interest & Current Affairs Magazines: Jason Cowley, New Statesman – New Statesman

Women’s Magazines (monthly or less frequent): Lorraine Candy, Elle – Hachette Filipacchi (UK) Ltd

Women’s Magazines (weekly or fortnightly): John Dale, Take A Break – H Bauer

Youth Magazines: Ian Foster, Match of the Day Magazine – BBC Worldwide

Fiona Macpherson new business editor of the year: John Stepek, MoneyWeek – MoneyWeek

Fiona Macpherson new consumer editor of the year: Peter Grunert, Lonely Planet – BBC Magazines

Business magazine art director of the year: Cecilia Lindgren, the Architectural Review – Emap

Consumer magazine art director of the year: David McKendrick, Esquire – the National Magazine Company

Launch editor of the year: David Rowan, Wired – Condé Nast

Business magazine website editor of the year: Gabriel Fleming, nursingtimes.net – Emap

Consumer magazine website editor of the year: James Dyer, Empire Online – Bauer Media

Innovation and brand-building initiative: Tony Chambers, Wallpaper* – IPC Media
(for Made in China Issue, an issue dedicated to the new China and produced by the London Wallpaper* team in China)

Campaign of the year: Denise Chevin, Building – UBM Built Environment
(for Safer Skyline, a Campaign to improve safety of tower cranes on building sites after a shocking spate of fatal accidents)

Mark Boxer award: Andy Cowles, editorial development director, IPC Media

2009 BSME editor’s editor: Morgan Rees, Men’s Health – Natmag-Rodale

The end of Gourmet – a photographic view

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Last month Conde Nast announced the closure of luxury food magazine Gourmet in a move by the publisher to cut costs, which saw several other titles shuttered.

Marking its closure the title’s former art director Kevin Demaria has published a collection of photographs entitled ‘Last Days of Gourmet’ – an office landscape that meant a great deal more to Demaria, as he explains:

Kevin Demaria's Last Days of Gourmet collection“In shock and disbelief, using garbage pails for long exposures, I took these photos of the last few days at Gourmet. Although at times it was hard for me to shoot the common places in the offices at Gourmet, I knew I needed to document where I loved working for the last eight years. It was a unique opportunity to have worked with such amazingly talented people in such a friendly work environment. Gourmet became my family and I will always look back proud to have been part of such an amazing magazine.”

(Hat tip MagCulture.com)