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Friday, August 28th, 1998 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Cygnus Publishing Acquires Magazines Cygnus Publishing announced that it has acquired RV Trade Digest and Sports Truck Accessory Digest from Continental Communications. Both magazines will continue to be published in Elkhart, Indiana. Kip Czoch, President of Continental Communications will continue as publisher of both magazines. "We realized we needed additional publishing resources to grow both publications," said Czoch. "Cygnus Publishing has those resources and can see the incredible potential for these market segments." The RV industry is expected to grow significantly as aging Baby Boomers continue to move into their retirement years. The sports utility vehicle industry is the hottest automotive growth market and the sale of accessories has become a very large segment of the automotive aftermarket. RV Trade Digest was launched in 1980 by Czoch's father, Matthew. It currently reaches more than 16,000 distributors, manufacturers, dealers and service suppliers of recreational vehicles. Sports Truck Accessory Digest launched in 1995 and goes to over 15,000 manufacturers, dealers and suppliers to the sports utility vehicle and sports truck market. CNET Continues Asian Expansion CNET Inc., in collaboration with Tricast Pte Ltd., announced the launch of CNET Briefs Hong Kong, a Chinese language website. CNET Briefs Hong Kong combines CNET's content with regional news, information, and services to create a local CNET community built specifically to serve the needs of Hong Kong's Chinese-speaking Internet users. Tricast, publisher of CNET Briefs Hong Kong, has entered into partnership with Hongkong Telecom's NETVIGATOR, the leading ISP in Hong Kong, who will host and co-market the new CNET site. The launch of CNET Briefs Hong Kong further extends CNET's growing Asian network, which includes English sites in Hong Kong and Singapore, with a Chinese site in Taiwan soon to be launched. In cooperation with local partners, CNET operates other localized versions of its websites in Australia, Japan, and Korea. "Chinese speakers are among the most technically-sophisticated Internet users today, and the greater Chinese economy seems largely immune to the Asian Flu, said Tom Melcher, CNET's Senior Vice President of Business Development. "These factors are driving our aggressive push into Asia, which is anchored with our latest Chinese-language site. International markets are tremendous growth opportunities for CNET, and by working with strong and savvy local leaders, like Tricast, we can turn a foothold into dominance quickly." "With the launch of CNET in Chinese, Tricast will broaden the appeal of CNET sites to the fastest growing segment of Internet users, the Chinese-speaking population," says Peter Schoppert, Tricast's Publisher and Director of Business Development. "There are at least four million Chinese-speaking users online right now, and research suggests that more than one million people will be online in Hong Kong alone by year-end. The Chinese edition of hongkong.cnet.com allows us to deliver need-to-know technology news and information to these users in their native tongue." New Outlet for College News A new on-line source for college news, Network NewsWire has been announced. A partnership between College Central Network, a career assistance and college recruitment site, and the free campus newswire, College News Online, Network NewsWire offers college-based content providers a new clearinghouse to disseminate their information. Network NewsWire offers news briefs from schools—grouped in geographic regions—with corresponding links back to the providers own sites. Access to Network NewsWire can be made through its own url or through links from the College Central Network and College News Online sites. Some of the options available to students and alumni at these sites are résumé posting, viewing of job listings and subscribing to College News, the monthly print newsletter published by College News Online. "This partnership enhances the value of our site for students, not only as a place to search for jobs, but as a place to find out what's happening in and around the community where they go to school," said Stuart Nachbar, vice president of College Central Network. Steven Taub Named Editor of Individual Investor Online Individual Investor Group, Inc. announced that Steven Taub has been hired for the newly-created position of editor of Individual Investor Online. Mr. Taub joins the company after 18 years at Financial World, where he was most recently editor-in-chief. Jonathan Steinberg, Chief Executive Officer of Individual Investor Group, said that "Individual Investor Online is not simply a mirror of our print products. The service continues to grow exponentially in terms of page views, revenues, and registered users, and we need an experienced financial editor to manage our expanding array of online content. Steve is the ideal candidate for this job." Mr. Taub joined Financial World in 1981 as a writer, served as a columnist from 1988 to 1993, Assistant Managing Editor from 1993 to 1996, and as editor-in-chief from 1996 to 1998. Prior to Financial World he was at the Associated Press and Hearst Publications. Mr. Taub holds a B.A. in Mass Communications with a minor in English writing from Queens College. Launched in May, 1997, Individual Investor Online is the companion site to Individual Investor magazine. Individual Investor Online delivers investing and financial information to its subscribers and maintains content partnerships with the Internet sites including AltaVista, CNET, Yahoo!, Cox Interactive Media, Quote.com, PointCast, WhoWhere?, Planet Direct, and AOL's Digital City New York. To date, Individual Investor Online has attracted over 115,000 registered users. Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter.  www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
