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Wednesday, February 7, 2001 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes CNet reported that InfoSpace.com announced it will cut 250 of its 1,200 global work force (21%). InternetNews.com reported that AmericanGreetings.com and Egreetings are planning to Merge. Voter.com has closed its business and political website. Entries to the 2001 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism are still being accepted, however the post mark deadline is February 12, 2001. The Loeb Awards, now in its 44th year, are given in eight categories including large, medium and small newspapers, magazines, commentary, deadline/beat writing, television and radio. Consideration is limited to articles and segments published or broadcast in the United States during calendar year 2000. For more information or to receive an entry brochure, please call Mary Ann Lowe at 310/206-1877 or send e-mail to loeb@anderson.ucla.edu. eMarketect Magazine, a journal for builders, owners and operators of eMarketplaces, Friday announced the premiere of its print publication. Searchable articles from the issue also are available on the website. eMarketect online also features daily news, analysis of current events and links to conferences and resources. The Associated Press reported that CNet is planning on cutting its staff by 10%. AmeriNet Group.com, Inc. announced that its subsidiary, AmeriNet Communications, Inc. (``AmeriCom''), entered into a licensing agreement with Duffy DeVaul, the founder and owner of the five-year-old, recreational fishing website, www.greengrouper.com. AmeriCom plans to develop the website, which was established in 1996, and has over 13,000 members worldwide, into an ecommerce website. The website and a 30-minute weekly television show, with an expected audience of between 13 and 50 million viewers, will be the cornerstones of AmeriCom's GreenGrouper project. Plans are also being made for a GreenGrouper magazine. PennWell Corp. is set to launch Supply Strategy, a new magazine designed to provide information about strategies and technologies related to procurement and supply chain management in large organizations. The first issue will be published in May of this year. Supply Strategy will be published by PennWell's Advanced Technology Division, based in Nashua, N.H. Kevin Fitzgerald, who has served in senior editorial positions on Purchasing, CPI Purchasing, Plastics World, Modern Materials Handling and Design News magazines will serve as editor-in-chief and associate publisher. Jay Regan, a senior PennWell publisher, has been named publisher. Fodors.com, an online travel information provider, and iExplore, a resource for adventure and experiential travel, jointly announced an alliance that brings iExplore's adventure content and trip booking resources to the Fodors.com site. Under the terms of this alliance, Fodors.com will incorporate iExplore's content and searchable database of trips into its website's Adventure Travel center. MyFamily.com announced that its site Ancestry.com, a provider of genealogical information, now has over one billion searchable records. The Gazette, a division of The Washington Post Company, announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Southern Maryland Newspapers from Chesapeake Publishing Corporation, Elkton, MD. The newspapers include the twice-weekly Maryland Independent in Charles County, the Lexington Park Enterprise in St. Mary's County, and the Recorder in Calvert County. Pulitzer Inc. announced the purchase of the assets of The Lompoc Record. The Lompoc Record will become one of the publications of Pulitzer Newspapers, Inc. (PNI). The Lompoc Record, an afternoon newspaper founded in 1875, is published six days a week. Circulation of the Monday through Friday daily edition is approximately 8,000, and Sunday circulation is approximately 8,350. Lompoc, with a population of 44,200, is located approximately 55 miles north of Santa Barbara, Calif., and approximately 30 miles southwest of Santa Maria. Rightscenter.com, an ASP for the management of intellectual property rights, announced the launch of its Film Rights Directory (FRD). The Film Rights Directory is a database of book adaptation rights available for sale, as well as tools that facilitate the process of buying and selling rights. Judy Harris, currently senior vice president and general manager of consumer and educational products for Discovery Communications, has been named executive vice president of PBS Businesses at the Public Broadcasting Service, announced PBS president and CEO Pat Mitchell. Ms. Harris will begin work on March 1, 2001 and will oversee all of PBS's content-related revenue-generating enterprises, including program business affairs, PBS Video, licensing and merchandising, e-commerce, PBS Interactive business development and corporate sponsorship. She will report to Ms. Mitchell. Sharlene Breakey has been promoted to Editor of Working Mother, a magazine about work/life issues for America's career-committed mothers, which reaches more than 3 million readers each month. Breakey joined Working Mother in 2000 as executive editor. Before joining Working Mother, Breakey, 38, spent five years with New Woman. GenesisNow.com is a new website that focuses on the African American Christian Community. GenesisNow has launched with two primary subject areas including its "superstore" and its "interactive" section. GenesisNow.com's Superstore currently offers a wide variety of Christian resources that include books, gospel music & CDs, bibles, gospel videos, sermons on video, Christian software, church supplies and Christian toys & games. The "GNinteractive" section features a weekly newsletter that contains a devotional. The newsletter also highlights current Christian Headlines, as well as top stories from the Gospel Music Industry. GNinteractive also makes available live gospel webcasts, concert listing, gospel play tours, and a church database. Mitchell B. Fox, currently Executive Vice President, Corporate Sales for Conde Nast Publications Inc., has been named President and CEO of Advance Publications, Inc.'s new golf properties, it was announced by S.I. Newhouse, Jr., Chairman of the company. Fox will direct Golf Digest, Golf Digest Woman, Golf World, Golf World Business, and GolfDigest.com. The appointment to the newly-created, independent unit of Advance will become effective when the sale from The New York Times Company is finalized on April 2nd. Stars & Stripes Omnimedia, Inc., a media company serving the military community, announced that Sherman Baldwin will replace Mike Edelhart on the company's board of directors, effective immediately. Edelhart will continue to serve on the company's advisory board. The company also announced the appointment of Michael Singer, Board Chairman of the USO of Metropolitan Washington, and the Hon. Emmett Paige, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and President and COO of OAO Corporation to the company's advisory board. William Sorenson has been named Chief Financial Officer, for the Bertelsmann eCommerce Group (BeCG) it was announced by Andreas Schmidt, President and CEO for the company. He will also serve as a Board Member for BeCG. Sorenson will be responsible for the overall direction, coordination and administration of all financial strategies, policies and controls for the company. Sorenson, who reports directly to Schmidt, will work closely with senior management in addition to directing human resources and legal for the company. MSNBC.com, an Internet news site, has signed a distribution agreement with Digital Paths LLC, a provider of Internet access to mobile handheld devices. As part of the agreement, MSNBC.com will make the MSNBC.com Mobile Channel available on the Digital Paths browser for all wireless platforms including Palm. USA Today announced the opening of a new office in the San Francisco area that will house USA Today editorial, advertising, USAToday.com and USA Today Live staffs. The San Francisco office will house a total of 15 USA Today employees, including six editorial, six advertising, one USAToday.com and two USA Today Live employees. Additional staff who will be named in the coming months. The new office consolidates editorial and advertising offices that have been in San Francisco for more than five years. The new office is located at 460 Montgomery Street in the financial district of San Francisco. The main telephone number for editorial is 415-901-5360. Barbara O'Dair has been named managing editor of Teen People, it was announced by Norman Pearlstine, editor-in-chief of Time Inc. O'Dair succeeds Christina Ferrari, the magazine's founding editor, who is resigning from the company and moving to Europe. Expedia Travels, a travel magazine for Internet-savvy travelers, will increase its rate base 50% to 300,000 effective with the March/April 2001 issue, on sale February 27th. CNET.com has introduced some new large advertising sizes and methods on its websites instead of the regular 468x60 banners. The new ad categories, which CNET terms Tower Board, Leader Board and Messaging Plus, are featured on the newly redesigned CNET News.com and ZDNet News sites. Examples of the new ad sizes can be found at: http://www.cnetcreatives.com/newadstory/. Digitrends.net, an information resource for interactive marketers, announced a redesign and expansion of its content and capabilities. Newsweek and The Motley Fool have joined forces to produce a special editorial report on personal finance that will appear in the magazine's next issue. The report will examine three sectors deemed to be revolutionary for investors in 2000 (online retailing, wireless service providers and biotechnology materials) and look ahead to what 2001 will bring to these areas. Effective with the January 2001 issue, Manufacturing Systems magazine has changed its name to MSI. In addition to the name change, MSI presented a complete redesign of the publication and its website. NewsFactor Network, an ebusiness and technology news agency nd publisher, announced a content distribution agreement with CNBC.com, a provider of business news and financial information. Under the terms of the agreement, NewsFactor will supply full-text ebusiness and technology articles for daily publication in the ``Markets & News'' section of the CNBC.com website. Time Magazine and BlackPlanet.com announced that they have partnered in a news content deal. Time will launch the deal by providing historic Time Magazine content to BlackPlanet.com throughout Black History Month. Convera, a provider of technologies, products and solutions for digital content, and Context Media, Inc., a provider of solutions to manage the sharing, licensing, distribution and syndication of content, announced the rollout of an open solution to help companies manage and share their digital content. The combined solution gives customers the ability to take content indexed and managed with Convera Screening Room, and extend it by making it available to partners and affiliates through the Context Media Interchange Platform. NewStar Media Inc. has announced plans for the sale of its printed and audio book publishing assets and its television and filmed entertainment assets. NewStar and its subsidiaries filed petitions for Chapter 11 relief. Tribune Ventures, the strategic investment unit of Tribune Company, announced that it has invested in Upoc, a software platform for mobile email, text and voice messaging. Based in New York City, Upoc offers a wireless ASP (Application Service Provider) platform that allows client companies to provide mobile information distribution and commerce to their customers. The technology allows text and voice messages to be sent to people through chat groups created around similar interests, and enables users to create and distribute information via any wireless device. IFilm has closed a $10 million dollar investment round, announced IFilm CEO and Co-Founder, Kevin Wendle. Axiom Ventures, Eastman Kodak Company, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Vulcan Ventures, and GeoCities Founder David Bohnett's Baroda Ventures increased their existing investments. New investors participating in this financing include Falcon Cable Founder Marc Nathanson, former Global Crossing CEO Leo Hindery and Yahoo. LocalBusiness.com announced the appointment of Jane Seagrave as Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Seagrave was previously the President of Legal Communications, Ltd., a Philadelphia-based publishing company, that was acquired by American Lawyer Media in 1998. The former Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Maffettone, resigned from the company to pursue other opportunities. Waldenbooks, a mall-based bookseller, is now on the Internet at www.preferredreader.com. The new site is designed as an exclusive benefit for Waldenbooks Preferred Readers, a retail rewards programs with members that number in the millions. Waldenbooks' preferredreader.com will give users the opportunity to sign up for Preferred Reader email so they can receive advance notice of special in-store promotions and new book releases. Dirk Johnson has been named Newsweek's Chicago bureau chief, Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker recently announced. Johnson comes to Newsweek after 16 years at The New York Times, most recently as a national correspondent based in Chicago. He joined the newspaper in 1985 as a metropolitan reporter in Stamford, Conn. and also served as Denver bureau chief. 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