The international magazine Monocle will launch its new online radio show Monocle Weekly on December 28.
From studios based in London, New York and Tokyo, the editorial staff will discuss global affairs, business, culture design, consumer culture and look at global trends, a press release from the magazine has said.
Monocle Weekly will be available live every Sunday at 12.00 CET on http://www.monocle.com.
The show will be also be available to download as a podcast through iTunes and Monocle’s website
Rory Brown, former managing director of the interactive marketing division of Incisive Media, shares his thought about the future of business-to-business publishing. “Yes, big media is clearly struggling – and not just because of the economy – but because, in the main, their whole corporate structure is set up for a very different era,” he says.
According to one executive at the event, magazine and newspaper publisher Lagadère is on the brink of reporting Google to the EU Commission for ‘predatory practices’.
One quote that grabbed my attention, however, was newspapers reported remark: “You are accepting the end of news as we know it.”
Google, secrecy about its algorithms and dominance of the online ad market aside, is looking forward; newspapers are trying to protect and control what they perceive as news and the news business. The problems they are facing, some related to Google and others not, should show them that this self-interested attitude can’t be maintained and their perception of ‘news as we know it’ is out-dated.
“This anti-Google attitude comes from an apparent sense of entitlement that we see clearly in France but also elsewhere: Google owes us (…) They – like other publishers and journalists – think a market should be built around what they need and that there is a fair share that belongs to them even though they did not innovate and change so those who did should rescue them. But as Scott Karp has said, no one guarantees them a business model.”
Google has added magazines to its internet search engine, AP reports.
“As part of its quest to corral more content published on paper, Google Inc. has made digital copies of more than 1 million articles from magazines that hit the news-stands decades ago.”
Following a research report, Paul Conley feels its time for him to say something he has ‘hesitated to say’. “The B2B industry, as we know it, is about to collapse,” he writes.
The B2B publishing industry currently now dominated by giant print companies and smaller web-only companies is about to collapse, he continues.
When the dust settles, B2B journalism will still be here – but many of the companies that make up the industry will be gone, he predicts.
Since announcing the ‘divestment’ of magazine publishing arm Reed Business Information (RBI), the sale by parent company Reed Elsevier has been the centre of much speculation.
Below is a timeline (created using Dipity) of the events so far – if there are any missing, let me know:
Prescott Shibles has recently relaunched a closed-down magazine as a web-based business, and here he shares his thoughts and experiences on the subject.
ThisIsMoney.co.uk reports that Reed Elsevier ‘is understood’ to be considering a deal to keep a stake in its £600m business information subsidiary, which it has been trying to sell to private equity firms since February.