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Thursday, January 14, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Law.com Launches law.com was unveiled to the public this week as a comprehensive portal for legal information on the Internet. Law.com also has a staff to assist in helping users to find the information they need on the Internet, should they have difficulty finding it at the law.com site. Among the launch content partners at law.com are CourtTV, LOISLAW, Harcourt-Brace, Corporate Legal Times, And LegalSpan. "The law influences virtually every aspect of our lives, but legal information is scattered across the web. It requires a lot of time to find what you're looking for using traditional search engines," said R. Bruce Whiting, CEO and chairman of Law.com. "Our goal is to make our site easy to remember and easy to use so that anyone, including business people, the public, lawyers and students, can find what they need at law.com." Thomas M. Kuczynski Named Publishing Director of Internet World Penton Media, Inc. has announced that Thomas M. Kuczynski has joined the company as Publishing Director of the company's Internet World print publication. Internet World is a leading publication serving Internet professionals. Published weekly, it has a BPA-audited circulation of 125,000, and provides strategy, E-business, technical implementation, Web programming, and design information and industry news. The publication was acquired by Penton Media from Mecklermedia Corporation in November 1998. Kuczynski joins Penton from Miller Freeman, Inc., where he most recently was Publishing Director of the company's Digital Media Group, based in San Francisco. He also had held the position of Director of Electronic Publishing during his tenure at Miller Freeman. Between 1989 and 1993, Kuczynski was a senior consultant for Ladd Associates in New York and San Francisco, where he advised senior management of both trade and consumer magazine publishers in areas including mergers and acquisitions and business plan development. He also spent three years with Andersen Consulting in San Francisco, doing work primarily in manufacturing improvement and systems development. Bride's Magazine and WeddingChannel.com Form Media Partnership Bride's Magazine and WeddingChannel.com have agreed to a multi-million dollar media partnership. The deal, announced today by Steven T. Florio, President and CEO of Conde Nast Publications, Inc., Deborah I. Fine, Publisher of Bride's, and Donald Drapkin, Vice Chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. and Chairman of WeddingChannel.com, includes the creation of a Bride's Magazine feature on WeddingChannel.com, as well as cross-promotional and marketing opportunities. "This is a match made in media heaven, and puts both WeddingChannel.com and Bride's firmly in the lead as the most powerful bridal brands in the world," said Drapkin. "This partnership is ready to meet a real societal shift, in which brides and grooms are turning to the Web as a significant, new wedding tradition. And, by offering couples a turn-key way to build their own wedding home page, WeddingChannel.com, with the added prestige of Bride's, can be one of the most powerful influences in the entire wedding process, from engagement to gift registry, to communicating with guests." Fox Sports Online Feature Bids Farewell To Michael Jordan Fox Sports Online has compiled the most definitive look at Michael Jordan's outstanding career as he bids farewell to the NBA. "This is the perfect time for me to walk away from the game," said Jordan at today's announcement of his retirement. "I'm at peace with that." Found only at Fox Sports Online, Michael Jordan: An Appreciation is a multimedia Michael Jordan tribute available on the Internet. Michael Jordan: An Appreciation presents the career and legacy of the most recognizable name in sports. The extraordinary retrospective highlights Jordan's extensive career timeline and provides championship photos, stats and stories; video from some of his most memorable moments on and off the court; and the "Album of a Champion: '75 to '98" photo gallery featuring rare, seldom-seen shots of a young Jordan. Fans are invited to vote for Jordan's predecessor in "King of the Court," take the "Full Court Press Trivia Challenge," guess the players hidden behind tile walls in the "Mike's Mates FotoFlip." Sm@rt Reseller Announces Promotion and New Editorial Hire Sm@rt Reseller has announced the promotion of Joseph C. Panettieri to Executive Editor from Managing Editor. Additionally, veteran wordsmith Rory J. Thompson has joined the newsweekly as Managing Editor. The editorial expansion underscores the magazine's growing importance to today's value-added resellers, systems/network integrators and solutions providers. "Joe's in-depth experience and IT knowledge have been instrumental in Sm@rt Reseller's success," said Ed Sperling, Editor-in-Chief of Sm@rt Reseller. "With the entire channel dynamic moving forward in warp speed, our team has reported scores of stories with strategic importance to resellers' businesses in the last year. The addition of Rory and his enterprise expertise guarantees our unwavering commitment to the solutions provider channel." As Executive Editor, Panettieri will play a pivotal role in planning and overseeing Sm@rt Reseller's day-to-day editorial operations. He's an award-winning editor and reporter who has covered Microsoft, operating systems and networking since 1992. Before joining Sm@rt Reseller in 1998, Panettieri spent two years at CMP Media's Windows Magazine, most recently as news editor. Prior to that, Panettieri was senior editor at InformationWeek. Thompson will oversee and maintain Sm@rt Reseller's editorial deadlines, working closely with the publication's reporters, production team and copy desk. In addition, he will write and edit several portions of the magazine, including guest editorials, feature pieces and the Channel Surf section. Get Up and GO! Magazine Introduced in New York Get Up And GO!, a national lifestyle magazine for the growing 50-plus population, was introduced to the New York advertising and marketing community today by Dr. Ken Dychtwald, chairman of Age Wave Communications, Emeryville, California. Dr. Dychtwald, a psychologist, gerontologist and author of the best seller, Age Wave, is an authority on the aging of the population and its marketing implications. Get Up And GO! is a network of monthly magazines reaching today's 50-plus adults. The network includes 47 editions with 3.5 million readers in 10 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Washington. The revamped publication will debut in March with a cover story on Sophia Loren - "Sophia, Still Sexy After Sixty." Get Up and GO! has an ABC audited circulation of more than 1.6 million in areas with a high density of residents 50 years of age and older. Those between ages 55 and 70 constitute the core readership of the magazine. Leda Sanford, former publisher of American Home magazine who held key positions at Modern Maturity, is editorial director of Get Up and G0!. Carol Mauro-Noon Assumes Helm at Instructor Magazine Scholastic Inc., a global children's publishing and media company, has announced the appointment of Carol Mauro-Noon as Editor in Chief of Instructor Magazine which is read by more than one million teachers of grades K - 8. Mauro-Noon brings twenty years of editorial and educational experience to this position. She will report directly to Hugh Roome, Executive Vice President, Scholastic Consumer and Professional Magazines. "Instructor has been the leading magazine for teachers for over 100 years because it has adapted to the fundamental changes in American schools," said Roome. "With Carol, the magazine enters a new phase -- helping teachers cope with the challenges of the very different learning needs of children in the next millennium and with the extraordinary educational potential of digital technologies. By 2005 there will be four million teachers -- making them the largest professional group in the world -- which challenges us to redouble our efforts on Instructor to provide the single most valuable professional resource for a new generation of teachers." Since 1990, Mauro-Noon has been a consultant and/or editor on a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Prudential investment newsletters, and Working Mother. She has conducted editorial workshops at New York University and seminars at writers conferences across the country. She has been copy chief and associate editor of Saturday Review and Esquire, associate editor of Dial, managing editor of Working Woman and executive editor of New Choices magazine. A former teacher, Mauro-Noon earned a master's degree in reading. Instructor, founded in 1891 and acquired by Scholastic in 1989, is the longest continuously published magazine for teaching professionals in the United States. "With authors like Dr. Tatum, a distinguished group of master teachers on our advisory board, a dedicated and creative staff and the resources of Scholastic behind us, Instructor will remain a major influence for teaching professionals in the next century," added Mauro-Noon. Patrick Oster Named Editor in Chief of The National Law Journal American Lawyer Media, Inc. (ALM) has announced the appointment of Patrick Oster as editor in chief of The National Law Journal. Oster joined the paper in 1996 as managing editor and has served as acting editor of The National Law Journal for the past six months. Oster's career in journalism has included experience at some of the nation's leading newspapers and publications. He spent 10 years in Washington, first as the legal affairs editor of U.S. News & World Report, and then as the Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Sun Times. On the international front, Oster served as Mexico City bureau chief for Knight-Ridder newspapers and was a correspondent in Brussels for Business Week. Upon returning to the U.S., Oster assisted in the redesign of The Bakersfield Californian before joining The National Law Journal as managing editor. Oster is the author of The Mexicans, published by William Morrow and in paperback by Harper Collins. A graduate of Cornell Law School, he has been the recipient of three ABA Silver Gavel awards, the nation's leading legal journalism prize. With a readership of more than 160,000, The National Law Journal is the nation's largest legal newspaper. Its editorial mix includes reports on breaking legal news; special reports on corporate, criminal, intellectual property and bankruptcy law; in-depth coverage of management and other law practice issues; and focused business law coverage for corporate legal staffs. The National Law Journal has received numerous journalism awards including The George Polk Award and The Business Press Editors' Journalism Award. 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. |
