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Wednesday, September 19, 2001 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes Miscellaneous People Primedia Inc. announced that it has promoted William Day, 37, to the position of CEO of About from his previous post as president and COO. Mr. Day will continue to serve as president of About. Scott Kurnit, Founder and CEO of About until today, remains Chairman through the end of the year and as an advisor to the company into 2004. Kurnit will continue to be a major shareholder in the company. Mr. Day is an industry veteran who has been running much of About's day-to-day operations. He has also overseen a large part of the integration of About within Primedia. The Hollywood Reporter has named deputy editor Howard Burns as editor, according to announcement made today by Robert J. Dowling, editor-in-chief and publisher, to whom Burns will continue to report. Burns has been acting as interim editor while the trade paper conducted an extensive four-month search to replace Anita Busch who departed April 30. Burns, 41, has been with The Hollywood Reporter for 13 years. During that span he has held a wide array of positions, including executive editor/television, managing editor, news editor and international general manager. Vickie Walton-James, deputy Washington bureau chief, has been named associate managing editor of Washington news for the Chicago Tribune. The announcement was made by James O'Shea, managing editor of the newspaper. Walton-James joined the Chicago Tribune in 1989. Prior to her career in Washington, Walton-James worked as a copy editor, on the foreign desk and as the editor in charge of foreign and national news for the Sunday Chicago Tribune. She has served as deputy bureau chief in Washington for the past six years. Journal Register Company Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jean B. Clifton announced the appointment of Judy Brenna as director of investor relations. In this role, Ms. Brenna will be responsible for directing the company's corporate and strategic communications activities, including media and investor relations. Belo announced that Eric A. Christensen has been named vice president/General Manager of Belo Interactive, Inc., Belo's Internet subsidiary. He will report to Colleen B. Brown, Belo's senior vice president/Business Development. Christensen has served as acting general manager of Belo Interactive since June, following the appointment of former Belo Interactive president Jim Moroney to the position of publisher and chief executive officer of The Dallas Morning News. Christensen joined Belo Interactive in September 2000 as the Company's vice president/Finance. Primedia Inc. announced that Geoff Lewis has been named editorial director for the recently created Financial Services Group. Mr. Lewis, formerly of BusinessWeek and CNBC.com, will be responsible for overseeing editorial and working on product development across the spectrum of its financial services properties. The Boston Globe has named Alfred S. Larkin Jr. to the new post of Senior Vice President of General Administration and External Affairs. The appointment, announced by Globe Publisher Richard H. Gilman, is effective immediately. Digital Publishing The Electronics Group of CMP Media LLC, a provider of information for electronics professionals, and Bitpipe, a syndicator of technology content, have joined forces to create e-library, a research library providing electronics professionals with in-depth white papers and analyst reports. Visitors to the group's websites like EE Times Online, EBN Online and Embedded.com, etc., will have access to over 14,000+ technical documents from leading vendors and top analyst groups. bizjournals.com, a publisher of metropolitan business newspapers, will use electronic publishing technology from NewsEdge Corporation, to manage and deliver weekly news stories from its 40 metropolitan publications. Under the licensing agreement, bizjournals.com will use NewsEdge's proprietary indexing and editorial refinery technology to process and web-enable its original content, consisting of over 5,000 daily and weekly articles from 40 newspapers nationwide. NewsEdge Electronic Publishing Technology will enable bizjournals.com to collect and standardize content from all of its regional newspapers, classify that content with NewsEdge's software, and deliver that content to its website in XML format. Content Deals Journal Register Company Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Robert M. Jelenic announced the Company's acquisition of The Reporter, a 19,000-circulation daily newspaper based in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, from Gannett Co., Inc. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. U.S. News & World Report announced a strategic editorial relationship with Healthology, Inc. Specifically, the agreement will provide usnews.com users with health information from Heathology. Healthology's content library contains nearly 1,000 video programs on a full range of subjects related to health and medicine, including various forms of cancer, diabetes, and multiple sclerosis. Miscellaneous Source Interlink Companies, a provider of magazine information and front-end sales data in North America, announced it has entered into an exclusive five year marketing agreement with ACNielsen, a market research firm. Under the terms of the agreement, ACNielsen will provide Source Interlink with weekly, scan-based magazine sales data from more than 200 of the nation's major retail chains representing over 25,000 stores. This data will be marketed and licensed to publishers throughout the United States exclusively by Source Interlink under the name ``ICN Mag*Track, A Service of Source Interlink Companies and ACNielsen.'' 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 © 1997-2010 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
