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Wednesday, July 18, 2001 Publishing Industry Soundbytes · Meredith Corporation announced that Meredith Broadcasting Group President Cary Jones has resigned his position effective at the end of the month, citing personal reasons. Meredith Broadcasting Group Executive Vice President Doug Lowe will assume Jones' responsibilities on an interim basis. Lowe joined Meredith last August. Previously, he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of First Media Television/Cannell Communications, which operated stations in Cleveland, Orlando, Portland, Ore., Greenville, S.C. and Bend, Ore. A Certified Public Accountant, he has also held financial positions with Cox Enterprises, TeleRep and Price Waterhouse. · As part of a global rebranding initiative, United Business Media International, a UK-based professional media companies, will be rebranded as CMP Information. The CMP name is already an established brand in the US where it is a B2B high tech publisher. To accompany the new name, the business will also adopt a distinctive new visual identity which will soon appear on magazine mastheads, exhibition signage and websites. · Shutterfly, an online photo service, announced the appointment of Virender Ahluwalia to chief financial officer. As CFO, Ahluwalia's responsibilities include managing all financials, including overall operations, procedures, budgeting, and fiscal planning and analysis for the industry's top online photo service. Ahluwalia will report directly to Andy Wood, CEO. · CMP Media's TechWeb, a network for business technology professionals, announced an editorial content distribution agreement with Yahoo! Inc., an Internet communications, commerce and media company. TechWeb will provide daily IT-related news from InformationWeek and InternetWeek to the technology section of Yahoo! News. · Universal Studios Hollywood has merged the Publicity/Public Relations and Television Production/Development departments and has appointed Eliot Sekuler Vice President, Public Relations and Television Development/Production, heading the newly unified unit, it was announced by Don Skeoch, Senior Vice President, Marketing for Universal Studios Hollywood. In his new role, Mr. Sekuler will be responsible for developing public relations strategies as well as managing efforts to expand on the use of Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal CityWalk as prime locations for all forms of filmed and videotaped production. Mr. Sekuler will continue to report to Don Skeoch and to Jim Yeager, Senior Vice President, Public Relations, Universal Studios Recreation Group. Coinciding with the department re-organization, Audrey Eig has been promoted to Director, Domestic Publicity. In her newly expanded role, Ms. Eig will be responsible for managing all domestic print and electronic media for Universal Studios Hollywood. · CyberRead announced that it will provide secure distribution of Microsoft Reader ebooks utilizing MIDAS Technology from OverDrive, a provider of ebook technology services. CyberRead, established in 1999, is an ebook company offering trade and independent published books, magazines, novels, and comic books offered in ebook format. · InformationWeek announced that its mobile newsletter will provide breaking news updates every half hour. The Mobile Edition, which has been featured on the AvantGo mobile Internet service since August 2000, had previously been updated once a day. The Informationweek Daily E-newsletter is a component of CMP Media's recently re-launched TechWeb.com, a content packager that aggregates and presents content for business technology professionals with buying power. · Hollinger International Inc. and The Trump Organization announced a joint venture to redevelop the Chicago Sun-Times headquarters site at 401 North Wabash, located on the Chicago River directly west of the Michigan Avenue Bridge. The site is a prominent location in the city, with over 500 feet of frontage along the Chicago River. The parties have agreed to jointly fund pre-development costs that includes a marketing study, architectural and engineering designs and a zoning analysis, in order to determine the feasibility of a multiple-use high rise development project. With the opening of the Chicago Sun-Times' new Ashland Avenue facility, their existing downtown building is no longer essential to continuing newspaper operations. The editorial and advertising staffs of the Chicago Sun-Times will either become tenants in the new building or find alternative space in Chicago's central business district. Messrs. · CareerJournal.com, a career site from The Wall Street Journal, and The International Personnel Management Association (IPMA), ta public personnel association, have formed an alliance to expand human resources content available on CareerJournal.com. The partnership with IPMA provides CareerJournal.com with public sector perspectives on employment and careers at the federal, state and local levels. CareerJournal.com will carry articles from the IPMA members-only newsletter and provide a link to the IPMA site. Concurrently, IPMA will promote and carry a direct link for its members to the CareerJournal.com site. · Katharine Graham, former chairman and chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company and former publisher of The Washington Post, died July 17th, 2001 at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, the company announced. Mrs. Graham, 84, was chairman of the executive committee of The Washington Post Company. Her death resulted from head injuries sustained in a fall on Saturday, July 14, in Sun Valley, where she was attending a conference of business leaders, the company said. Mrs. Graham is survived by her son Donald Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company; her daughter Lally Weymouth, a Washington Post and Newsweek journalist, of New York; her son William Graham, an investor, of Los Angeles; her son Stephen Graham, a producer, philanthropist and Ph.D. student of English literature, of New York; 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild, and her sister Ruth M. Epstein of Bronxville, NY. The funeral service will be held on Monday, July 23, at 11:00 a.m., at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. · The Boston Globe said that on September 6 it will begin a weekday section for targeting of local news and advertising in Boston's southern suburbs with the publication of Globe South, a new, stand-alone section that will appear every Thursday and Sunday in The Globe. The Globe's online edition at Boston.com will also inaugurate a Globe South section to complement the new edition. Globe Publisher Richard H. Gilman made the announcement, describing Globe South as part of a long list of improvements coming to the paper in the past year, including a complete graphic redesign, more zoned advertising opportunities, added business coverage in technology and biotechnology, the launch of the Globe West section, and the start of a new Sunday help-wanted section called Boston Works. · Anton has been named Chief Executive Officer at Warner Bros. Publications, the music print division at Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. Anton, who is located at the Warners office in Miami, has been with the company since 1996 and was formerly President/COO at the company. · Media General announced that it has completed the preliminary steps for listing its Class A common stock for trading on the New York Stock Exchange. On July 16, Media General received NYSE confirmation that it has satisfied the eligibility requirements for listing and has been cleared to file a listing application. Media General plans to complete that process in time to begin trading on the NYSE before the end of the third quarter. At that time, the company's stock will trade under the new ticker symbol MEG. Media General is an independent, publicly owned communications company situated primarily in the Southeast with interests in newspapers, television stations, interactive media and diversified information services. · Tribune Interactive, Inc., a news and information provider and a subsidiary of Tribune Company, announced that online advertising executive Joseph G. Gallagher has been named Director of Sales for Tribune Interactive's Eastern region. · MightyWords, a digital content publisher, and Hoover's, Inc., a provider of online business information, announced that thousands of MightyWords' reports are now available on Hoover's Online. · OverDrive, Inc. a provider of digital content conversion services, and IPM-NET of Naples, Italy jointly announced a partnership for offering a comprehensive suite of epublishing services to the European community. IPM-NET, a subsidiary of IPM-Group, will be the Italian vendor of OverDrive's ebook technology services and will localize OverDrive's ebook tools for the Italian market. · eBay's Half.com announced that abebooks.com and New York City's legendary Strand Book Store have signed agreements to sell on Half.com. abebooks.com provides independent book stores with a marketplace to sell new, used, rare and collectible books on the Internet. Through its agreement with Half.com, abebooks.com will distribute inventory from its participating affiliated dealers on Half.com, under the name of abebooks. Strand Book Store is also adding its inventory of new, used, and rare titles to Half.com's product listings. 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 © 1997-2011 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
