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Friday, May 28, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Judsen A. Culbreth Announced as Editor-in-Chief of Scholastic Parent Publishing Scholastic Inc., a global children's publishing and multimedia education company, announced that Judsen A. Culbreth will join the company as Vice President, Editor-in-Chief, Scholastic Parent Publishing. In her new position, Ms. Culbreth will oversee Scholastic Parent & Child magazine, reaching over 70,000 teachers and caregivers and 4 million parent readers. Ms. Culbreth will also focus her attention on the development of new internet and print-based programs. In addition, Culbreth will oversee Early Childhood Today, Scholastic's leading early childhood professional magazine. In making the announcement, Richard Robinson, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Scholastic Inc., said: "We are thrilled to have Judsen Culbreth's leadership in this very important area for the company. Fifteen years ago, Scholastic began its commitment to early childhood education and working families. Today, as we approach the Millennium, Scholastic reinforces this pledge by expanding our educational initiatives, products, and services directed towards parents and caregivers to help young children grow and learn. With Judsen's knowledge and understanding of the challenges facing American families, Scholastic is poised to create exciting and worthwhile programs." Penton Media Completes Acquisition of New Hope Communications Penton Media, Inc. has announced the close of its acquisition of Boulder, Colorado-based New Hope Communications, Inc., a leading business media company serving the natural products industry. New Hope's core products include Natural Products Expo East and Natural Products Expo West; five magazines, including Natural Foods Merchandiser, the leading magazine serving the natural foods/health foods and organic foods market; and the Healthwell.com website. "The acquisition of New Hope Communications is another example of the execution of Penton's strategy to acquire leading business media companies in growth markets," said Thomas L. Kemp, chief executive officer of Penton Media. "It also reinforces Penton's strategies to diversify our market positions and revenue streams," said Kemp, noting that New Hope has an attractive diversity of revenues from trade shows, conferences, magazines and its website. New Hope will operate from Boulder as a division of Penton under the name New Hope Natural Media. Doug Greene, founder of New Hope Communications, is non-executive chairman of the division and will hold a seat on Penton's Board. Richard Prill, president, Kim K. Paulsen, president of publishing, and Katherine M. Lawrence, president of trade shows and conferences, continue in their current positions. American Banker Readership Increases American Banker Online has announced an increase in readership of over 60%. This is the cumulative result of a three-year effort to position American Banker Online as a valuable resource for breaking financial industry news and information. "American Banker is in a unique position to understand the challenges our readers face. With them in mind, we designed American Banker Online to allow users to find relevant news quickly and conveniently," says Anne O' Brien, publisher, "Obviously, the new subscription figures indicate that we are meeting a real need." In addition to a summary of the day's top stories with links to the full text of each story, American Banker Online features breaking news alerts via e-mail, searchable online archives, Ranking the Banks, a comprehensive posting of bank rankings, CareerZone, a searchable job database, and an online buyers guide with product briefings and vendor links. Around the Web Are Books Up to the Challenges of the Cyber Age? Cox Media Bertelsman Is Reorganizing Random Hous BookWire Companies Wrestle Over Internet Music Formats Nando.net CondeNet Gains in Web Traffic, Revenues MediaCentral Globe and Mail Creates New Financial Website Editor & Publisher Microsoft Pushes Electronic Book Standard CNN Papers Not in Competiton With Their Websites MediaCentral Profnet: The Helpful (Too Helpful?) Source of Sources OJR 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. |
