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Friday, January 26, 2001 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes AOL Time Warner will cut about 2400 jobs (about 3% of its work force) according to Reuters. Reuters reported that book and online publisher Hungry Minds Inc. (formerly IDG Books) plans to close three offices and cut its staff by nearly 20 percent. Bloomberg Television announced that its magazine, Bloomberg Personal Finance, is hitting the airwaves in the form of a half-hour show to be nationally syndicated. Hosted by Bloomberg News' Page Hopkins, Bloomberg Personal Finance will guide viewers through the tools and techniques they need to build a better financial future. Work.com a resource for business, announced it has entered into content agreements with InformationWeek and Automotive News to provide relevant news and information to the Software and Internet & Online and Automotive Industry Centers on Work.com. Dow Jones & Company announced the appointment of Richard F. Zannino as an executive vice president and chief financial officer. The appointment is effective February 12, 2001. Mr. Zannino, 42, had been executive vice president of Liz Claiborne, Inc after joining the company as senior vice president, finance & administration and chief financial officer in 1998. In his new role, Mr. Zannino will supervise the finance, technology and strategic planning activities at Dow Jones. Mr. Zannino succeeds Jerry Bailey, whose need to leave the company for personal family reasons was announced last fall. eVineyard has signed an exclusive content partnership with wine journalist Jim Gordon, recently named editor-in-chief of Appellation magazine and formerly managing editor of Wine Spectator. Gordon will act as editor-at-large for eVineyard, developing original content tailored specifically to the needs and interests of customers of online wine retailer eVineyard. With Gordon, eVineyard will as add a monthly newsletter distributed both by email and hardcopy in customers' packages. Over time, the partnership will include various co marketing, branding and content opportunities between eVineyard and Appellation. Columbia TriStar Television Distribution will launch a new version of its daily daytime series Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus on February 1, it was announced today by Steve Mosko, President, CTTD, and Russ Krasnoff, President, Programming and Production, CTTD. The redesign of the series will feature a five-person male and female hosting ensemble as well as a new multi-subject format. Penton Media, Inc., a business media company, announced the appointment of R. Thomas Jensen as Chief Technology Officer. Jensen, 42, joins Penton from Honeywell Corporation where he was most recently VP, CIO Information Systems, Transportation & Power Systems Division. At Penton, Jensen's responsibilities will include implementing technology-based strategies that provide competitive advantage, enhance and support product and revenue creation. Fortune and CNet Networks, Inc. announced that they would jointly produce the Fortune/CNet Technology Review as two special issues in 2001. The two special issues, formerly published bi-annually as the Fortune Technology Guide, will provide a technology resource combining product information and reviews with articles about trends and business and personal applications of technology. The Fortune/CNet Technology Review will be published in June and November 2001 with a circulation of 1,200,000. The Los Angeles Times has named Joseph M. Russin as assistant managing editor for multimedia. Russin will be responsible for establishing The Times' new multimedia desk and overseeing the newspaper's multimedia publishing operations and cross-promotional efforts. He also will manage all content-sharing initiatives involving latimes.com, Tribune-owned newspapers and television stations including KTLA 5 in Los Angeles, and other radio and television content partners. He will report to Dean Baquet, managing editor of The Times. New York writer Tish Durkin, 34, has joined the National Journal Group to write a weekly column on Washington for National Journal. Durkin will also serve as a Washington correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, filing monthly dispatches and longer pieces. Durkin comes from the New York Observer, where she covered politics for the past four years. For National Journal, Durkin will write a weekly column called ``The Scene'' in which she will describe and analyze Washington's political culture. MSNBC.com, an online news website, launched a new interactive news page optimized for high-speed Internet access at HighSpeed.MSNBC.com. The new user interface, a destination news page for broadband users, provides access to rich-media features as well as live and on-demand video including MSNBC.com's hourly ``Video Headlines.'' Paula Moreira has joined New Horizons Computer Learning Centers Inc., as vice president of elearning. Previously, Moreira was vice president of content and editor-in-chief for LeapIt.com, a Baltimore-based provider of elearning solutions. She also authors a monthly tech careers column for Certification Magazine. Primedia Inc. announced it has appointed Suzanne Gibbons-Neff, vice president, corporate communications at About, Inc. as vice president, corporate communications of Primedia. Primedia and About are expected to complete their merger by the end of February. She will also continue to direct About's communications program. At Primedia, Neff will be responsible for all corporate communications, including media relations, staff communications and brand identity. Neff joined About.com in February 2000 when her client ExpertCentral.com, was acquired by About. New York Times Digital, the Internet division of The New York Times Company, announced that Jason R. Krebs has been named vice president, sales for NYTimes.com and that Christine C. Cook has been named vice president, international for the site. The announcement was made by Lincoln Millstein, executive vice president of New York Times Digital, to whom they will report. Describing his successor as a bright light to follow and assuring shareholders that the leadership of Lee Enterprises has never been in better hands, Richard D. Gottlieb turned over the position of chief executive officer today to President Mary E. Junck. Gottlieb will remain as board chairman of the newspaper publishing company until his term expires in 2002. Lee Enterprises is based in Davenport, Iowa. Its daily newspapers include the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison; the Lincoln Journal Star in Lincoln, Neb.; the Quad-City Times in Davenport, and the Billings Gazette in Montana. CNet reported that Netscape will become a portal for Time Warner content, under the new AOL Time Warner company. Microsoft Corp. announced that the installed base for its FrontPage website creation and management tool has soared to more than 5 million users -- a 40 percent increase since October 1999. Microsoft acquired FrontPage from Vermeer Technologies in 1995. Timothy R. Kennedy, vice president/development for Tribune Company, has been named Tribune Publishing Company vice president/strategy and development. Kennedy succeeds Timothy P. Knight, who was named Chicago Tribune vice president/strategic marketing, development and finance. Rovia, Inc., a provider of secure, electronic distribution infrastructure for the publishing industry, and Thomson Learning, an educational publisher, announced an online content distribution partnership. Thomson Learning will use Rovia's Web-based platform to distribute digitized, online versions of selected college-level texts, through their Course Technology and South-Western divisions. Course Technology and South-Western will both offer online versions of Rovia-powered texts beginning in January, 2001. Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia) announced that Debra Howell has been named city site manager of its Orange County, Calif., website, OCnow.com. The announcement came from Keith Greer, regional general manager. In her new position, Howell will lead the OCnow.com city site team and head up the site's marketing efforts. ebrary, an online research resource, announced the appointment of Thomas D. Turvey, Jr. to the position of vice president of business development. Turvey came to ebrary from Barnes & Noble.com, where he was director of eBooks. Digital Goods, a digital content marketing company, announced that John Carroll, a senior executive in the online retail industry, has joined the company as vice president of interactive marketing. In his new position, Carroll will spearhead strategies to drive sales of ebooks and other digital content available through Digital Goods (formerly SoftLock.com). Carroll joins Digital Goods from Roxy.com where he was vice president of marketing. Viacom Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of BET Holdings II, Inc. for a total of $3 billion, consisting of Viacom Class B Common Stock and the assumption of debt. Viacom announced the acquisition of BET on November 3, 2000. BET is comprised of: Black Entertainment Television; BET on Jazz: The Jazz Channel; BET International; BET Books, a publisher of African American-themed romance novels under the label of Arabesque Books; and BET Pictures. BET also has a majority interest in BET.com, an online portal that provides content and community experiences for African Americans. Chris Anderson, a 12-year veteran with Ingram Book Group, was named President of Publisher Resources Inc. and Ingram Fulfillment Partners. Anderson succeeds Youngsuk Chi who recently accepted an executive position with Random House Inc. Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation, announced the re-launch of its website, technologyreview.com. The redesigned and expanded site will complement Technology Review's coverage of emerging technologies with web-exclusive stories and columns, in addition to topic channels covering infotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Enhanced community features will include discussion forums, mailing lists, polls, and reader surveys. The New York Times announced that Jay I. Sabin has been promoted to vice president, labor relations. He will be responsible for the newspaper's daily labor relations with its 15 unions. He will continue to report to Marc Kramer, vice president, production and labor relations. Latina Media Ventures, publisher of Latina Magazine, announced that Betty Cortina, one of the founding editors of O, The Oprah Magazine, has joined the company as its Editorial Director. In that capacity, she will work directly with Christy Haubegger, President and Founder of Latina, and Sylvia Martinez, Editor-in-Chief. Rodale Inc., a publisher of information on healthy lifestyles, announced that Elizabeth Crow has been named vice president and editorial director of the Women's Health Group. Steve Murphy, Rodale's president and chief operating officer, made the announcement. Crow, a veteran of Conde Nast Publications and Gruner + Jahr Publishing USA, will begin her assignment February 20 and will report to Barb Newton, senior vice president and managing director of Rodale's Women's Health Group. In her new role, Crow will be responsible for directing all creative editorial development for the Women's Health Group, which includes Prevention magazine, Prevention books, special interest publications, websites, cable, and extensions into other media. She will also oversee editorial matters for the Women's Health Group's brand extensions and strategic alliances. Poker.com, Inc., announced that Poker.com has partnered with three writers to provide content for the website, and its Poker Faces newsletter. The new writers include Dan Kimberg, Lothar Landauer and Jesse May. MarketWatch.com, Inc. announced that journalist Steven Kerch, longtime real estate editor of the Chicago Tribune, has joined its news team. As the new real estate editor, Kerch's responsibilities will include expanding real estate coverage on the company's financial news site. He will also contribute stories to the syndicated television program CBS MarketWatch Weekend and the MarketWatch.com Radio Network. The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announced that S. M. Shephard-Massat is the winner of its 2001 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, given each year to an emerging playwright. Her play, Waiting to be Invited, was staged in January 2000 by the Denver Center Theatre Company, in a production directed by Israel Hicks. The M. Elizabeth Osborn Award was established in 1993 to honor the memory of a distinguished author, script editor and mentor to playwrights. The award, chosen annually by ATCA's New Plays Committee, recognizes a play by a writer whose work has not received a major production and who has not yet attained national recognition. RealRead Inc., an online book marketing solution provider to the publishing industry, announced a strategic alliance with Innovative Interfaces, a leading California-based library automation supplier. Innovative provides Web-based solutions to over 900 academic, public, law, medical, and special libraries worldwide and will be integrating new RealRead book preview options on its Millennium integrated library system. John Ashenhurst, president of Sound Internet Strategy, announced the publication of Sounding Line, a monthly newsletter focused specifically on the use of the Internet for insurance marketing, sales, and service. Sounding Line is intended for insurance agency principals and managers, company marketing and automation staff, technology vendors, and industry groups and associations. SYS-CON Media announced that Cathy Walters has joined the company as vice president of the SYS-CON Events division. Syngress Publishing, Inc., announced the signing of a multi-book publishing agreement with EngineX Networks, Inc., an infrastructure design firm and ASP (application service provider) consultancy. The premise of the EngineX Networks-authored series is to prepare an Internet service provider (ISP) for the conversion to an ASP. The books within the series will cover the technical topics that the traditional ISP must deal with and the concerns that will arise as they convert to an ASP. The first book in the series is the ASP Configuration Handbook: A Guide for ISPs. 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. |
