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Tuesday, July 10, 2001 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes · Andrew Gowers, currently editor of Financial Times Deutschland, will be the new editor of the Financial Times. He succeeds Richard Lambert who, after ten years as editor, has decided to step down from the role. Gowers will take up his new role at the end of September. Gowers has been a Financial Times journalist since 1983. In 1994 he was appointed deputy editor and, from July 1997, he was acting editor while Richard Lambert worked from New York to launch the new US edition of the Financial Times. In January 1999 he was appointed founding editor of Financial Times Deutschland. Wolfgang Munchau and Christoph Keese, currently deputy editors of Financial Times Deutschland, will succeed Gowers as joint editors. · John L. Dotson Jr., former president and publisher of the Akron Beacon Journal and a former senior editor/news editor of Newsweek, has been elected a director of The Washington Post Company. His election increases The Washington Post Company's Board of Directors to 11 members. · The McClatchy Company has named two key executives as publishers of its newspapers in Minneapolis, Minn., and Fresno, Calif. J. Keith Moyer moves from president and publisher of The Fresno Bee to president and publisher of the Star Tribune, serving the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Replacing Moyer as publisher and president at The Fresno Bee is McClatchy's Director of Corporate Services Ray Steele Jr., a Fresno County native and a former Bee executive. Moyer, 48, has been with McClatchy since 1994. He replaces John Schueler, who resigned from the Star Tribune in May. Steele, 55, joined McClatchy in 1967 as a reporter at The Fresno Bee and has held a variety of key positions in Fresno, at The Sacramento Bee and with McClatchy's corporate staff. · Gale Group, a unit of The Thomson Corporation's Thomson Learning division, has acquired Blackbirch Press, a Woodbridge, CT-based publisher of high-quality books for children in grades K through 6. Blackbirch will be integrated into the Gale Group's Greenhaven editorial operations in San Diego. Greenhaven consists of the Greenhaven Press, KidHaven Press and Lucent Books imprints; all are K-12 circulating nonfiction product lines. Blackbirch will remain a separate imprint under Bruce Glassman, who was named Publisher of Blackbirch Press and Gale Publishing Vice-President. Mr. Glassman's parents Richard and Sonja Glassman founded Blackbirch in 1990 and he was its most recent president. · IDG's Computerworld, an IT information services company, announced the availability of In Depth, an editorial offering that takes advantage of the dynamic capabilities of the Web. Focused on a single technology topic each month, the In Depth series is a collaborative print and online package of stories, charts, graphs, columns, case studies, research materials, profiles, and other content. The package makes its debut with a cover story kickoff and a series of articles about IT security in the July 9, 2001 issue of Computerworld. The online portion may include additional stories, Q&A interviews with industry experts, opinion columns, ROI measurement templates, community forums, QuickPolls, and resource links to other sites. Both online and offline, each In Depth will include multiple cross-references to the material in the other medium. · Playboy Enterprises, Inc. announced the promotion of James N. Dimonekas to vice president, publisher of Playboy magazine. He reports to Michael T. Carr, president of Playboy Publishing Group. As publisher of Playboy magazine, Dimonekas is responsible for the Company's domestic publishing businesses, including the U.S. edition of Playboy magazine, Playboy-branded books, calendars and Playboy Special Editions. He also oversees all advertising sales, marketing and business management of Playboy magazine and is based in the New York City offices. Dimonekas joined Playboy in 1991 and was named associate publisher for Playboy in 1999. Prior to joining the company, he held sales positions at The National Sports Daily, Military Lifestyle Magazine and PC Week. · Reprint Management Services has entered into an exclusive partnership with Renton, WA-based iCopyright.com. The newly formed alliance between the article reprint management provider and the provider of digital content copyright compliance and licensing aims to provide a seamless solution for online and off-line publishers. · The Reader's Digest Association announced the appointment of Jim Schiekofer as Group Publisher for The Family Handyman and American Woodworker, the company's two largest special interest magazines. He will report to Bonnie Bachar, vice president and general manager of Reader's Digest's Home Improvement Group. Schiekofer was formerly with Gear magazine as associate publisher, where he developed all marketing and advertising platforms for the young men's magazine. Before that he was advertising director for Sports Afield, where he developed sales strategy for that magazine's relaunch. The Family Handyman (circ. 1.1 million) and American Woodworker (circ. 325,000) are the cornerstones of Reader's Digest Home Improvement affinity, which also includes an extensive line of books. They are published by Home Service Publications Inc., a subsidiary of the Reader's Digest Association, Inc. · XanEdu, a division of ProQuest, and The Economist announced a joint education initiative that will make available by Fall 2001 digital CoursePacks guided by editorial content from The Economist. The co-branded, Economist CoursePacks at XanEdu will allow university professors to draw from content at The Economist and integrate it with XanEdu's archive of commercial and scholarly journals, periodicals, newspapers, books, dissertations, literature works and academic collections. · World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. has established a partnership with Uncommon Media Group, inc. to extend the content of its two monthly publications, WWF Magazine and Raw Magazine, to 'virtual pages' via CD-ROM. Launching with the November 2001 issue of WWF Magazine, Uncommon Media Group, inc. will develop and distribute an interactive CD-ROM to the more than seven million fans who read World Wrestling Federation branded magazines annually. After the initial distribution, subscribers of the magazines will receive a collectable Uncommon CD-ROM each month bundled with their magazine, with up to four additional CD-ROMs coming out each year. · Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., a video entertainment software publisher, announced that it has appointed Dr. David J. Sturman to the position of Chief Technology Officer. Reporting directly to John Ma, Executive Vice President of P roduct Development, Sturman will be responsible for setting new technology standards throughout Acclaim's internal studios. Dr. Sturman joins Acclaim with more than 20 years of proven expertise, having held research and development positions with TheStreet.com, MaMaMedia, Inc., Medialab Paris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, New York Institute of Technology and Bell Telephone Laboratories. He comes to Acclaim from TheStreet.com, where he oversaw the development of software for online content, services and products. · Alloy Online, Inc., a Generation Y-focused media company, announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire CASS Communications, a provider of advertising and marketing services connecting national advertisers and their agencies with the college and high school markets. The transaction is expected to close in early August. · Colin Crawford, President and CEO of Mac Publishing, L.L.C., announced the appointment of Rick LePage to VP of Content/Editor in Chief for the flagship publication and website, Macworld. Rick LePage has been a journalist since graduating from Suffolk University in 1981, and has held editorial positions with Computerworld and MacInTouch as well as with MacWEEK, where he rose to Editor in Chief in 1996 and to Publisher in 1998. In 1999 he left the publication, then named eMediaweekly, initially to return to MacInTouch, and later to be General Manager for Creativepro.com. LePage will join the company in September 2001. Current VP of Content/Editor in Chief, Andrew Gore, is departing the company to pursue other interests. · eXcelon Corporation, a provider of an XML-based platform for self-service and collaborative applications, announced that Merrill-Hall has selected the eXcelon XML Platform to serve as the core technology for creating online research solutions for publishers and academic interests. eXcelon's technology will enable Merrill-Hall, a design and Internet consulting firm, to deliver self-service publishing solutions for knowledge seekers. · As part of a unique ebook marketing campaign to generate excitement about the new K.A. Applegate series Scholastic Inc., a children's publishing company, made available for free, five ebook download installments of Remnants #1: The Mayflower Project, a full month prior to the print book arriving in stores on June 15. More than 25,000 downloads of Remnants were received during Scholastic's promotion in partnership with Microsoft Reader. K.A. Applegate is best known for her other children's book series published by Scholastic, including Animorphs and EverWorld. · Newmediary, Inc., a provider of online directory solutions for content and community sites, announces a strategic partnership with the New York New Media Association (NYNMA), a non profit association supporting the new media industry in New York. The online B2B Marketplace integrates Newmediary's online directory tool with NYNMA's content. Buyers of new media services can post Requests For Proposals (RFPs), free of charge, and select prospective providers from those listed in the directory. · SFX, a producer and marketer of live entertainment, announced that it is changing its name to Clear Channel Entertainment, a move that reflects the synergies between Clear Channel Entertainment and the other divisions of its parent company, Clear Channel Worldwide. Clear Channel Entertainment currently owns, operates and/or exclusively books 135 live entertainment venues, including 44 amphitheaters in the U.S. and 28 venues in Europe. · LivePlanet, an integrated media company behind Project Greenlight and The Runner, announced the appointment of David Haddad as president and chief operating officer. As COO, Haddad will be responsible for the day-to-day internal operations of the company. He will work directly with LivePlanet's Chief Executive Officer Chris Moore, and Chief Creative Officer Sean Bailey. Haddad was formerly president of Mattel Media, a provider of children's entertainment software. Ben Affleck, Sean Bailey, Matt Damon and Chris Moore founded LivePlanet in June 2000. LivePlanet properties slated for release in 2001 are Project Greenlight (HBO), and in 2002 The Runner (ABC) and Project Greenlight (Miramax). · Parents hoping to be their children's primary role models even during early elementary school years may have more competition than they anticipate, according to results of an on-line survey conducted by Storiestogrowby.com. When asked whom they most admired, 100 children from 5-17 named historical figures, friends, sports figures and singers more frequently than their parents. Twenty-one percent cited historical figures -- followed by friends (20 percent), sports figures (18 percent), singers (12 percent) and parents (10 percent). 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