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Friday, July 5, 2002 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes Launches and Redesigns | Miscellaneous People · CMP Media announced the appointment of Peter Clarke as news director of Semiconductor Business News (SBN), a daily news website for semiconductor industry managers and executives. Clarke, based in London, is an eighteen-year semiconductor industry news veteran and has been an EE Times' European correspondent, columnist and contributor since 1994. · Anthony N. DeMaria, MD, vice chairman of medicine at the University of California-San Diego, has been named editor in chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). JACC is the nation's leading source of clinical information on cardiology for health care professionals. He assumed his responsibilities on July 1, 2002. · Danforth W. Austin, formerly general manager of The Wall Street Journal, was named vice chairman of Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. ("ONI"), the community newspapers subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, which also publishes the Journal. The announcement was made by James H. Ottaway, Jr., chairman and CEO of ONI and a senior vice president of Dow Jones, as part of a larger set of structural and senior management changes at the parent company. Mr. Austin will remain a vice president of Dow Jones. Mr. Austin, 55, will report to Mr. Ottaway, and will succeed him as CEO of ONI in 2003, as Mr. Ottaway, 64, approaches retirement. ONI previously announced that John Wilcox, executive vice president of ONI and former publisher of its Cape Cod Times, will succeed Joseph Richter as president and chief operating officer of ONI when Mr. Richter retires at the end of 2002. · Standard Register announced that Director Graeme G. Keeping has resigned from the Board of Directors, effective immediately, to devote his attention to his consulting business. Standard Register is a provider of information solutions for financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and other markets. · Doug Iverson, a veteran reporter and Pioneer Press team leader for business coverage during the last five years, has been named the newspaper's senior editor for business and technology. Iverson succeeds Chris Worthington who was promoted in June to the position of managing editor/local news and business. · Technology Review, MIT’s award-winning magazine of innovation, announced it has named Robert Buderi as Editor of the publication. In this position, Buderi will be responsible for the editorial direction and design of the magazine. He will report directly to R. Bruce Journey, Technology Review’s Publisher and CEO. An acclaimed writer and a former technology editor for BusinessWeek, Buderi has been a key member of Technology Review’s senior editorial staff since 2000. In addition to his role at Technology Review, Buderi is the author of two books: The Invention That Changed the World (Simon & Schuster 1996), a history of radar that was part of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Technology Series and Engines of Tomorrow (Simon & Schuster 2000), considered by many to be the best recent book on how high-tech corporations manage the research process. · Ronald L. Jones, founder and chairman of SongPro, Inc., a digital device and content distribution company, announced the appointment of Jon Richmond, former president of News Digital Media, the digital arm of News Corp., and Dr. Marc Hannah, co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc., as CEO and CTO, respectively. SongPro is preparing for the fall 2002 retail launch of a $99 plug-in module that turns Nintendo Game Boy Color and Nintendo Game Boy Advance into secure WMA/MP3 music and multimedia players with the unique ability to display scrolling visuals and text. In addition to Richmond and Hannah, Mark Dawson, former director of product development and content at News Digital Media, and Paul Wylie, former vice president of global operations for Activision, have boarded with the company as vice president of product development and vice president of operations, respectively. Digital Publishing · Palm Digital Media has named its bestellers for June, 2002. Top 10 Best-selling Fiction Books Top 10 Best-selling Non-fiction Books Content Deals · Transcontinental Media announced that it has acquired the Ottawa Business Journal, a weekly business journal covering the Ottawa region, and its ancillary products. The publication, acquired from InBusiness Solutions Inc., employs about twenty people. Over 21,000 copies of the Ottawa Business Journal are distributed for free each week. · BusinessNOW, a business news program that airs in major markets, announced a content distribution arrangement with Prentice Hall, a business of Pearson Education. In the Fall 2002, Prentice Hall will begin distributing to business schools in the U.S. both custom-created and pre-aired video segments from BusinessNOW. The segments will be included in the video libraries which accompany Prentice Hall's Marketing, Management, and General Business textbooks. · Penton Media announced that it is partnering with SD Times, an industry newspaper for software development managers, to create a Web Services Design Conference to be held on October 1 and 2, 2002, during Penton's Tenth Annual Internet World Fall. · Lee Enterprises, Inc., has completed the purchase of the Sioux City Journal in Sioux City, Iowa. In the transaction, announced June 6 and valued at $60.3 million, Lee bought the remaining 50 percent interest in the newspaper from the operating partner, a subsidiary of The Hagadone Corporation. Lee agreed to pay $59.3 million in cash and give Hagadone ownership of a group of weekly publications in northwestern Montana. The Sioux City Journal has 165 employees and daily circulation of 42,800. Lee acquired its initial 50 percent interest through the purchase of Howard Publications in April. · Integrity Media, Inc., a media/communications company that produces, publishes and distributes Christian music, books and related products, announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of M2 Communications. M2 Communications, with annualized sales in excess of $11 million, is an independent artist-label that offers specialized attention to both music and ministry and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Integrity Media, Inc., M2 Communications will continue to operate with its current staff under the direction of its Founder and President, Jeff Moseley, a 22-year veteran of the Christian music industry and a former chairman of the Gospel Music Association. Mr. Moseley will report directly to Jerry Weimer, President and Chief Operating Officer of Integrity Music. · Warner Music Group (WMG) and FullAudio announced that the two companies have expanded their relationship, signing a second agreement to allow subscribers to FullAudio's digital music service to purchase individual tracks from WMG's catalog. Under this new non-exclusive agreement, FullAudio users in the U.S. will be able to buy tracks online, download them to a PC or secure portable device, and burn them to a recordable CD. Today's news builds upon the existing agreement between the two companies, which was announced in April 2002 when WMG licensed its controlled recordings to FullAudio for inclusion in its digital music subscription service. · Listen.com, a San Francisco-based online music company that develops and distributes Rhapsody, a digital music subscription service, and Universal Music Group (UMG), a division of Vivendi Universal, announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement that will add U.S. UMG titles to Rhapsody. Launches and Redesigns · A companion website to the new four-part PBS mini series Red Gold: The Epic Story of Blood looks at the facts and myths about blood and its impact on everything from religion and medicine to commerce and popular culture throughout history. The Red Gold website also includes biographies, a glossary, resources, links, a viewer's guide,standards-based lesson plans, series information and more. The series, produced by Thirteen/WNET New York, premiers nationally this month on PBS. Miscellaneous · Romance Writers of America (RWA) brings the bestselling stars of romance fiction and thousands of dollars to fight illiteracy to Denver, Colorado, this July at their 22nd Annual RWA National Conference. Nearly 2,000 published and aspiring romance novelists, literary agents and publishing executives will meet in Denver, Wednesday, July 17 -- Saturday, July 20, 2002, for their "Writing in the Rockies" Conference. During the four-day event the group will toast the stars of romance publishing, raise money for literacy, and offer more than 100 workshops on the craft and business of writing romance novels. The public is invited to attend the Autographing and meet hundreds of romance novelists who will sign and sell their books. All money raised from books purchased at the autographing will go to RWA's national literacy charity. Half of the donation will be given to fight Denver's own illiteracy battle, the other half will go to literacy campaigns elsewhere in the nation. The autographing will be from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the Denver Adam's Mark. 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. |
