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Wednesday, April 14, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Petersen Names Dana Fields as Head of Magazine Development EMAP Petersen, Inc. has announced the appointment of Dana L. Fields, former V.P. and Group Publisher of Wenner Media, as Head of Magazine Development in a full-time consultancy role. Fields will work with Jim Dunning, Chairman and CEO, and Tom Moloney, President and COO, to oversee the development of FHM and Q magazines in the U.S., and will take over as President and Executive Publisher of the Men's and General Interest Group when the titles are launched. FHM (For Him Magazine) is the leading men's title in the U.K. with a circulation of 750,000. Q, also a monthly, is the U.K.'s leading music magazine with a circulation of 210,000. Dunning commented, "I am proud to have Dana join our team at Petersen. No one can match her experience in publishing in this category. Petersen has introduced nine new magazines in the last two years and EMAP's ownership makes the opportunities even greater." Dunning added, "Dana joins other prestigious additions to Petersen's management team." These include: Stacey Lippman, President, Brand and Marketing, who was Corporate Media Director and Managing Partner of TBWA Chiat/Day; Bill Harper, Vice President and Co-Publisher of the Petersen Magazine Network, an 18-year Wenner Media veteran and Mark Goldsmith, who was recently named Vice President and Executive Publisher of Petersen's Sports Group after serving as Vice President and Group Publisher of General Media's Automotive Group and Penthouse magazine. Petersen also recently announced with NFL Properties the launch of a 1 million circulation magazine called NFL Insider Magazine. The magazine for football fans will hit newstands on September 1st. Content Magazine Relaunches ContentWorld Publishing Ventures (CPV) has announced the appointment of a new Editor and the re-launch and redesign of its print and Web publication, Content. Content's editorial style will include insight and know-how of industry experts who share a passion for the digital media world. Each issue will provide readers with a blend of best practices, project case studies, product backgrounders, and emerging trends. Originally published in 1991 as a newsletter and more recently as a stand-alone magazine, the new Content will launch its new look and enhanced editorial with the May/June 1999 NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) issue. Content will be published 5 times in 1999, starting as a bi-monthly and increasing to monthly with the November, 1999 issue, which will focus on broadcast, cable, and 3D systems. Each issue will be delivered to more than 50,000 influential decision-makers in the most content-driven industries: advertising, branding, entertainment, media, publishing, telecommunications, and education/training. Writer and producer Lou CasaBianca has joined ContentWorld Publishing Ventures as CCO (chief content officer) and editor-in-chief. Mr. CasaBianca will guide the development of Content. He will also direct the company's Web products and conference activities. Mr. CasaBianca joins CPV president and publisher, John P. Noon, the founder of ContentWorld Publishing Ventures to develop a new integrated family of Internet, magazine, digital media, and conference products and services. "We are delighted that Lou CasaBianca has joined ContentWorld Publishing Ventures," says Noon. "His deep understanding of digital media and Internet technology combined with his strong first-hand involvement in the content creation and asset management communities, will help us build a powerful, knowledge-driven suite of brands and products. Lou brings a wealth of production and publishing expertise grounded in broadcast, new media, audio, film, video, HDTV, and Internet industries." internet.com acquires @NY and SiliconAlleyJobs.com websites internet.com LLC today announced that it acquired @NY and SiliconAlleyJobs.com websites and related Internet media properties. Both sites are now part of the expanding internet.com Network of websites and Internet industry resources. @NY, founded by veteran journalists Tom Watson and Jason Chervokas, is a weekly provider of news and analysis of the Internet media industry in Silicon Alley. SiliconAlleyJobs.com is a leading online job source for Internet professionals. "Jason Chervokas and Tom Watson are well-known Internet journalists and their websites and e-mail newsletters are highly respected throughout the Internet industry," said Alan M. Meckler, Chairman and CEO of internet.com LLC. "These acquisitions fit wonderfully into internet.com, adding greater depth to our expanding network of industry news and resources on the Web." Yahoo! Internet Life's Growth Continues Ziff-Davis has announced that Yahoo! Internet Life will increase its rate base from 600,000 to 700,000 in September 1999. According to Executive VP/Group Publisher Jim Spanfeller, Yahoo! Internet Life has experienced phenomenal growth since its inception, with a rate base that has climbed 600% since its launch. Yahoo! Internet Life is currently the fastest-growing monthly magazine in the country with a circulation greater than 450,000, according to ZD Analysis of the Audit Bureau of Circulation's report for the six month period ending December 31, 1998. In the fall of 1995, Yahoo! Internet Life was launched as a quarterly with a rate base of 100,000. Having since gone bi-monthly in May 1996 and then monthly in August 1996, the magazine's circulation has grown exponentially. With its September 1999 issue, Yahoo! Internet Life will again increase its rate base to 700,000 a month. "Web users are a growing, affluent, and intelligent audience who look to Yahoo! Internet Life for information on the usefulness and entertainment value of the Internet," says Spanfeller. "Our numbers have been phenomenal, so moving the rate base up again was a natural progression for the magazine." Yahoo! Internet Life monitors, comments on, and chronicles Internet culture, and helps readers find the best the Web has to offer. Published by Ziff-Davis, Yahoo! Internet Life is based in New York, with branch offices in major markets around the country. Star-Telegram Selects Best and Worst Celebrity Authors Think Hollywood is the only place to get celebrity autographs? Nowadays, fans only have to visit their nearest bookstore to meet authors such as Bill Cosby, Maria Shriver, Jamie Lee Curtis and Sarah Ferguson. As bookshelves around the country are being stocked with celebrity-authored children's books, the Star-Telegram's Book Editor Jeff Guinn uncovers which celebrity children's books you can't put down and which ones should remain on the shelf. His best and worst picks appear in the Life & Arts section of today's Star-Telegram. Guinn's best picks by celebrity authors include: The Meanest Thing to Say by Bill Cosby, What's Heaven by Maria Shriver and The Jolly Mon by Jimmy Buffett. His picks for the worst include: Laura Schlessinger's Why Do You Love Me? by Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis and Budgie Goes to Sea by Her Royal Dutchess of York, Sarah Ferguson "From Jimmy Buffett to Jamie Lee Curtis, with Bill Cosby and Dr. Laura Schlessinger in between, the past three years have seen more celebrities signing contracts with major publishing houses to write children's books," comments Guinn. UBL.com Adds Personal Publishing Tools for Emerging Bands UBL.com, has launched a personal Web publishing area enabling bands to contribute audio files to their UBL listing or "band card." By integrating Microsoft's newly released Windows Media Technologies 4.0 and the On Demand Producer, UBL.com will create a database of audio files, significantly expanding its offerings to actively showcase music by emerging bands and unsigned artists. Bands and their representatives can access UBL.com's publishing area at http://content.ubl.com/pwp. "This exciting new feature allows undiscovered bands to display their music right next to the most famous artists in the world like The Rolling Stones and Pearl Jam," said Steve Rennie, president of UBL.com. "In addition, Microsoft Windows Media Player allows UBL.com's hundreds of thousands of daily visitors to easily sample new music. There's been a lot of talk recently about MP3, but our focus has always been on the artist and enhancing the connection between the artist and their fans." UBL.com categorizes more than 1,000,000 music-oriented websites which are maintained by fans, record companies and other entertainment organizations. UBL.com provides a searchable database of websites relating to bands, record labels, record retailers, concerts, ticket sales, tours, radio stations, contests, e-zines, chats, live broadcasts, online events and downloadable MP3 files. UBL.com also operates its own online music store. New Holocaust Feature on The American Experience Online To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Ha'Shoah), The American Experience Online has launched America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference, a new website that accompanies the re-broadcast of The American Experience documentary of the same name airing Monday, April 12, at 9pm on PBS. The 90-minute documentary and the website examine a painful chapter in American history -- a period marked by strong anti-Semitic sentiments -- by following the struggles of Kurt Klein, a German Jew. After emigrating to America in 1937, Klein spent years wrestling with a tangle of United States bureaucracy as he attempted to get visas for his parents and free them from persecution in Europe. The State Department not only delayed action, but suppressed information and blocked efforts that could have resulted in the rescue of many thousands of people. The content-rich website offers valuable resources to promote a better understanding of the US government's bureaucratic delay, including a teachers' guide with suggestions for leading classroom discussion on this material. The site also contains an enhanced program transcript, complete transcripts of interviews in the program, and a bibliography. Rapid Growth For TheSpark.com TheSpark.com, a new website targeting students and young adults, has amassed a quarter of a million registered users within one month of its March 14 launch. The website currently offers its users a dating/matching service as well as a satirical journal. New features will be launched by May 1, 1999. The foundation of TheSpark's enormous success is its popular Pimpin' Cupid program. This program matches people who anonymously indicate interest in dating each other through its website. The site was founded by four Harvard seniors with Internet experience to provide entertaining, educational, informational, and general interest content to students and young adults. "There are hundreds of websites trying to capture the college and young adults markets. So far, none has succeeded, and this has become one of the biggest races in the history of the Internet," says co-founder Chris Coyne who is an expert in web design. TheSpark.com will be launching a series of new features in the next few weeks to help entrench itself as the site of choice for students and young adults. "The upcoming releases of SparkNotes, SparkMall, SparkChat, and SparkFilms, will not only bring our 250,000 users back to our site but also will build TheSpark as a national brand," says co-founder Sam Yagan. Around the Web BEA Update Publishers Weekly Former L.A. Times Publisher Takes Over CJR Editor & Publisher Grove to Newsies: 'Get with It!' 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