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Wednesday, August 8, 2001 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes · Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation, has announced the appointment of J.R. ``Matt'' Mattox to the position of Director of Business Development where he will oversee the development and execution of strategic partnerships and new ventures for the magazine and the recently re-launched technologyreview.com. An accomplished technology executive, Mr. Mattox was formerly Launch Director at Idealab, a firm that creates new technology ventures. · The New York Law Journal announced the appointment of Executive Editor Kris Fischer as editor in chief of the newspaper. Ms. Fischer will succeed Ruth S. Hochberger who has announced plans to step down on September 1, after serving as editor in chief of the daily since 1989. The New York Law Journal is published by American Lawyer Media, Inc. (ALM), a legal journalism and information company. Ms. Fischer joined the company in 1985 as a senior editor at The American Lawyer magazine. She served as a senior editor at the New Jersey Law Journal and Manhattan Lawyer, and became managing editor of the New York Law Journal in 1989. · ISPworld.com, a resource for the service provider community, has launched new ISPworld Forums. Leveraging the combined editorial resources of ISPworld.com and Boardwatch Magazine, ISPworld Forums provide an area where industry professionals can exchange information and discuss issues with colleagues, peers, Boardwatch editors and industry leaders. · eCollege, a provider of eLearning software and services to the higher education market, announced that it promoted Dr. Kathryn Winograd to chief academic officer. Dr. Winograd began designing and teaching online courses in 1996 at the University of Colorado at Denver, and joined eCollege in 1998. · Philip Taubman, the assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times, has been named deputy editorial page editor, effective in March 2002. He will succeed Philip M. Boffey, who plans to retire in March. Mr. Taubman, 53, became assistant editor of the editorial page at The Times in November 1994. He served previously as deputy national editor from 1993 to 1994, and deputy Washington editor from 1989 until 1992. · Metro Magazine has launced its new website at: metro-magazine.com. The site features breaking news, full feature articles, industry links, statistics and directories. The homepage features pull-down menus for searching the magazine's archives, or finding industry statistics and research. The website also includes forums and the Metro Express, a free email newsletter. · Yack, Inc. named Doug Wintz as Vice President and General Manager of Yack Media Services (YMS), effective July 30, 2001. As head of YMS, Wintz will oversee all of the company's business syndication, licensing, sales and marketing of its products and services. Wintz was recently Vice President Sales and Marketing at Interactive Marketing Inc. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Sales at Uproar. · The magazine formerly known as Automotive Manufacturing & Production has a new title, one that is more reflective of the publication's content: Automotive Design & Production. Automotive Design & Production (AD&P) is published by Cincinnati, Ohio- based Gardner Publications. Each month, the magazine reaches 55,000 automotive industry professionals and executives. · Primedia Inc., a targeted media company, announced that Peter L. May, 40, a CMP Media executive, has been named Vice President - Entertainment for Primedia Business Magazines & Media, effective August 13. In his new role, May, will be responsible for increasing market share and revenue, and enhancing the editorial platform for the entertainment division's 14 magazine titles including Entertainment Design, Electronic Musician, Mix, Broadcast Engineering, Video Systems, Lighting Dimensions and Millimeter, and their related Web and event properties. · LearningExpress, LLC, a provider of career guidance and interactive testing, announce a strategic partnership with Delmar, a division of Thomson Learning. Effective September 1, 2001, Delmar is the exclusive worldwide distributor for LearningExpress' print publications. · CMI Holdings Group, Inc. has acquired the exclusive license to operate the comic, game and toy website NextPlanetOver from The Hobby Hub Inc. NextPlanetOver (NPO) was a venture capital backed start-up launched in August 1999. A Web-based destination for the entertainment hobbyist, NPO offers an online store with thousands of items including comic books, graphic novels, film- and TV-related products, card and role-playing games, animated videos, Japanese anime, action figures and apparel. During the licensing period, CMI Holding will run co-marketing programs with the Hobby Hub's eHobbies.com website to promote NextPlanetOver.com, and will cross promote eHobbies through the AnotherUniverse.com website. The deal also provides CMI Holdings with a purchase option at the end of the licensing period. · Toastmasters International, an educational organization devoted to teaching public speaking skills, has named Donna H. Groh as its new Executive Director. Groh, of Corona Del Mar, California, will lead TI's World Headquarters operations, which includes a 58-member staff and a $7.5 million operating budget. An experienced public speaker with 25 years of leadership experience in the healthcare industry, Groh comes to Toastmasters from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, for which she was Director of Operations and Business Development. · Dave Howe has been named Senior Vice President of Marketing and Creative for SCI FI Channel. Based in New York, Howe will report to SCI FI President Bonnie Hammer, and will oversee all of the Channel's on and off-air marketing efforts. Responsibilities include branding, marketing and promotion for SCI FI Channel and SCIFI.COM. · Medical Economics Company, a division of The Thomson Corporation, announced a new operating structure that replaces the traditional product-focused publisher/publication model for one that emphasizes customers and markets with like needs. Called ``Team Medec,'' this new approach creates multi-functional account teams that can offer clients the full array of media products and communications services. Leading the newly formed Medical Education & Communications Group is SVP, Terrence Meacock. Heading the three key operating functions in the new structure, and reporting to Meacock, are Carol Jaxel, VP Marketing/Brand Management; Kevin Bolum, VP Account Representation; and Jeffrey Forster, VP Editorial. Phyllis Hassard continues to report to Meacock in her role as Director of Industry Relations and Michael Velthaus was named Director of Art and Production. · HomeStyles Publishing and Marketing, a Homestore.com, Inc. company, announced that it has developed a new custom book series for The Home Depot to be sold in stores across the country, beginning in August 2001. The book series, entitled ``Dream-It, Build-It(TM): Project Plans & Ideas,'' will offer Home Depot customers design ideas and construction plans for outdoor home improvement projects. · TechTV announced that it has acquired the exclusive rights for the U.S. premier of the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC's) award-winning series Tomorrow's World from Beyond Distribution. Tomorrow's World will premiere on TechTV on Monday, October 1, 2001, and will air daily in prime time. The deal represents TechTV's first program acquisition. · New York Magazine, a Primedia publication which provides an annual Best Doctors issue, goes a step further this week by introducing ``Strong Medicine,'' a medical column by Joanne Kaufman. Kaufman will cover the complex and changing health care world in New York -- from why doctors are constantly dropping out of HMO's to the implications of hospital mergers. The column, which will explore issues that concern both doctors and patients, debuts in the issue of New York Magazine on sale today, August 6, 2001. Joanne Kaufman is a New York journalist who has written numerous articles for New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and People. · The New York Times has launched a business-to-business website for advertising clients at: www.nytadvertising.nytimes.com. The site allows advertising clients to manage their accounts with The Times online, enabling them to place reservations, submit new creative material, view upcoming or past schedules and access media kits from their desktops. · The Deal, LLC, a diversified media company, announced the appointment of Robert Clark as its Chief Operating Officer. In his new role, Clark oversees day-to-day operations in the following areas: circulation, manufacturing and production, distribution, fulfillment and customer service for The Daily Deal's print and electronic products. Most recently, Clark led the sales and circulation consumer marketing team at The Publishing and Media Group, a management consulting firm specializing in the media industry, where he served such clients as Conde Nast International, McGraw Hill and National Geographic Society. · Google Inc. announced that Dr. Eric E. Schmidt, 46, has been named chief executive officer. Schmidt, who was appointed chairman of Google's board of directors in March 2001, succeeds Larry Page, 28, Google's founding chief executive officer. Page was named President, Products; and Sergey Brin, 27, the company's founding president, was named President, Technology. The new executive appointments are effective immediately. Schmidt has served as chairman and CEO of Novell, Inc. since 1997. He recently left his post as Novell's CEO, but remains Novell's chairman of the board. · Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, and Knight Ridder Digital, a subsidiary of Knight Ridder, announced an agreement allowing Factiva to include online content from twenty-nine Knight Ridder newspapers as part of its global news and business information offering. Through Knight Ridder Digital, full-text, daily publications will now be available on the day of publication to Factiva customers through Dow Jones Interactive and all other Factiva products. · Topica Inc., a provider of free and fee-based email newsletter hosting and delivery services, said it has welcomed some 10% of the lists formerly hosted by Microsoft's ListBot to its Topica Exchange email newsletter service. Microsoft closed ListBot, its free hosting service on August 6th. At this time, Topica continues to offer a free email hosting option. · Universal Music Group (UMG) and Laugh.com, Inc., a comedy content provider, announced they have signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, UMG will license substantially all of its comedy sound recordings to be streamed, on-demand, to U.S. customers of Laugh.com's branded comedy service. Licensed titles from UMG will include selections from comedians such as Richard Pryor, Dennis Leary, The Jerky Boys and Redd Foxx. · Pulitzer Inc. announced the appointment of Alan G. Silverglat as senior vice president - finance, effective in September. Silverglat, currently corporate vice president/treasurer at Knight Ridder, Inc., replaces Ronald H. Ridgway, who is retiring at the end of September. Pulitzer Inc. is engaged in newspaper publishing and related new media activities. The company's newspaper operations include two major metropolitan dailies, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Arizona, and 12 other dailies. · Course Technology, a division of Thomson Learning, will offer a library of more than 50 of their best-selling textbook titles within ebook platforms beginning in September 2001. Through partnerships with ebook platform resources, Course Technology will offer ebook solutions for popular software application and information technology concepts, including everything from the Internet, Web development, networking, programming, and management information topics. · MSNBC.com, an Internet news site, has expanded its daily news coverage through recent content distribution agreements with technology news providers CNet, the Privacy Foundation and MIT's (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Technology Review. The new content distribution deals allow MSNBC.com to increase the scope of its technology news coverage and complement existing relationships with The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Inside.com, Red Herring, BugNet and ZDNet. MSNBC.com's technology section is located at www.technology.msnbc.com. · Michael Arnzen, a Bram Stoker Award winning horror writer, has launched an experimental dark poetry server named Gorelets. A "gorelet" is a horrific poem (or poem-length story) under ten lines, written on a PDA, exclusively for other PDA readers. Arnzen will be posting one new Gorelet per week which AvantGo or Coola users can receive upon HotSyncing. Individual Gorelets are entirely free, but access to the web archive or picture postcard versions of the poems requires a user-determined donation. · Nobility Group LLC, a Nashville, Tennessee-based corporate holding company with interests in entertainment, technology, and finance, announced it has acquired a controlling interest in Success Companies LLC, owner of Success magazine, Working at Home magazine, and Success Events International, among other properties. Nobility Group plans to use Success as the basis for a series of media and event initiatives. Plans include a new public seminar series for audiences aged 15 to 25; a cable channel that offers life-enriching oriented shows and documentaries from the Success Events International archives. 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. |
