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Friday, September 20, 2002 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes Launches and Redesigns | Miscellaneous People · Marvel Enterprises, Inc. announced that Allen S. Lipson, Esq., 59, will become Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective January 1, 2003, upon the retirement of Peter Cuneo who is the current president & CEO. Mr. Lipson has served as Marvel's Executive Vice President Business & Legal Affairs since November 1999. During the intervening period, Mr. Lipson and Mr. Cuneo will work together to effect an orderly transition of the CEO role. Following this period, Mr. Cuneo will continue to serve Marvel as a Board member and as an advisor. · Andy Sareyan has been named President of Entertainment Weekly. He had been President of The Parenting Group. Sareyan succeeds John Squires, who became an executive vice president of Time Inc. in July 2002. Rick Tetzeli, Deputy Managing Editor of Fortune, will be the new Managing Editor of EW. He succeeds Jim Seymore, who becomes an Editor-at-Large at Time Inc. The announcement was made by Ann Moore, Chairman & CEO of Time Inc., and Norman Pearlstine, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc. It was also announced that Peter Bonventre, Executive Editor at EW, has been promoted to Editorial Director of the magazine. · Tribune Publishing Company, a division of Tribune Company, announced the appointment of Darko Dejanovic as vice president/chief technology officer. Dejanovic will oversee technology strategy, development and operations for Tribune Publishing, a U.S. newspaper group. He will also continue in his current role as vice president and chief technology officer of Chicago Tribune Company. Since 1999, Dejanovic has led technology strategy and infrastructure for Chicago Tribune Company as its vice president and chief technology officer. · Reader's Digest has announced the appointment of two new columnists to the magazine, Will Shortz and Mary Roach. Will Shortz, the crossword editor of The New York Times, is joining the Reader's Digest family. Beginning with the September issue, he will create an original puzzle each month for Reader's Digest "RD Challenge." Shortz's puzzles for Reader's Digest will be of unusual varieties, changing each month. They will be intended for readers of all ages and designed to be done without using a pencil. Humorist Mary Roach has joined Reader's Digest as the monthly "My Planet" columnist, in which she'll address topics about approaching middle-age, from deteriorating eyesight to the complicated nature of satellite television and its 843 channels. Roach has been a columnist at Health magazine, writing the popular "Stitches" column and more recently, "Oh, Grow Up," a column about reaching middle age. Roach was also a columnist for Salon.com, where she penned humor pieces loosely based on the topics of health and the human body. · Upside Magazine, a monthly technology business magazine, announced the appointment of Ken Yamada as senior editor. Yamada will report directly to editor-in-chief Lester Craft, and will cover the enterprise IT sector as well as leading technology companies. Yamada has been covering Silicon Valley and technology developments since 1991, and has been a writer and editor for leading business publications including The Wall Street Journal, Red Herring magazine, and USA Today. · International Data Group (IDG), a technology media company, announced that Walter Manninen has been appointed President of IDG's CXO Media, publishers of CIO and CSO magazines. Manninen is an 11-year veteran of CXO Media and most recently served as Executive Vice President of Operations. Manninen takes this new role as Joe Levy, CEO and founder of CXO Media, announces his retirement. Manninen spent the last three years as Executive Vice President of Operations for CXO Media. · Consumer WebWatch, a non-profit research project with a mission to improve the credibility of online content, announced the debut of a new column by Angela Gunn, former ethics editor for Yahoo! Internet Life, to run twice a month on the Consumer WebWatch site. Gunn joins the project as Consumer WebWatch begins publishing its own original news content focusing on the credibility of online information. · The New York Times Company announced that Ruth Birge, direct marketing manager at The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla., has been named the publisher of The Times-News in Hendersonville, N.C. The appointment is effective immediately. In addition to serving as publisher, Ms. Birge, 54, will also assume direct responsibility for the advertising department at The Times-News and will be involved in the database marketing effort for both The Times-News and The Herald-Journal in Spartanburg, S.C. Content Deals · Booth Newspapers, which operates The Flint Journal, announced that it has acquired the nine weekly papers of Heritage Newspapers' Suburban Flint Newspaper Group, part of 21st Century Newspapers, Inc. Effective October 1, Booth will take over the publication of the weekly papers, which have a combined circulation of 84,000, and will distribute them on a broad basis in Genesee County. Roger Samuel, publisher of The Flint Journal, will manage the operation. Terms of the cash transaction were not disclosed. Booth and 21st Century Newspapers, parent company of Heritage, are privately held firms. · Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, announced that an additional 12 newspapers with combined circulation of 1.2 million will begin publishing The Wall Street Journal Sunday, a weekly package of original articles and information focused on personal finance and careers. The newspapers include The San Diego Union-Tribune, seven papers from the Los Angeles Newspaper Group and the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. With these additions, a total of 74 newspapers with combined circulation of 10.8 million are now carrying The Wall Street Journal Sunday's branded pages in their Sunday editions. · R.H. Donnelley, a marketer of yellow pages advertising, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Sprint Corporation's directory publishing business for $2.23 billion in cash, creating the nation's largest public stand-alone publisher of yellow pages directories. · Nielsen Entertainment, a division of VNU Media Measurement & Information, announced a change of senior management at its Los Angeles-based Nielsen NRG unit, a market research and consulting firm to the motion-picture industry. The company said that Joseph Farrell and Catherine Paura, co-chairmen and founders of Nielsen NRG, will step down from day-to-day management of the firm at the end of 2002. In addition, the company said that Andrew L. Wing, president and chief executive officer of Nielsen Entertainment, will relocate from New York to Los Angeles and will work alongside the two executives during a transition period. Launches and Redesigns · MediaBay, Inc., a media, marketing and publishing company specializing in spoken audio content, announced the development of two original audiobook continuity programs, Foul Play: Detective Mysteries and Swept Away: Stories to Fall in Love With. These new programs consist of a series of original audio dramas on cassette and CD, promoted and sold to subscribers to the continuity programs on a regular basis. The Company is currently testing both programs with anticipated rollouts in early 2003. · Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, has announced the availability of a Spanish-language interface to Factiva.com, Factiva's flagship online news and business information service. Factiva.com offers a collection of nearly 8,000 sources in 22 languages from 118 countries. · FindLaw, a legal website, has unveiled an expanded section of its site to help businesses understand and deal with common legal issues. FindLaw For Business features articles and guides covering the major legal issues concerning business. These include finance, operations, intellectual property, business structure, and human resources issues, such as employee rights, employer rights and responsibilities, immigration and workers' compensation. · The Boston Globe announced the launch of a new Ideas section on Sunday, September 15, 2002. Ideas will provide access to readers on new perspectives on the news locally, nationally and internationally, as well as serve as a meeting place to spark discussion. The Ideas section will replace the Focus section in The Boston Sunday Globe, adding more pages and content including essays, reported stories, offbeat items, graphics, and photographs. Ideas also includes an expanded Books section, which now has four pages each week for book reviews and features. Jennifer Schussler, formerly assistant editor of the New York Review of Books, will be deputy editor of the Ideas section, and Laura Secor, deputy editor of The American Prospect, will join the section in October as a reporter. · Weekly Reader, a PreK-12 classroom periodical in the United States, announced the launch of its redesigned website. The launch coincides with Weekly Reader's 100th anniversary and the redesign of its classroom publications. · The publisher Packaged Facts has launched a new website that provides access to market intelligence covering demographics and the food, beverage, consumer products, and personal care industries. The new site provides details about each report in the publisher's portfolio and the ability to view sections of reports prior to purchase. · InformationWeek, an IT media brand, has debuted a major redesign of its magazine. The new look is purely an aesthetic change with the goal of enhancing the readers' experience by making the publication easier to navigate. InformationWeek hired the publication designer, Robert Priest, to spearhead the project. Priest has worked on publications such as Esquire, House and Garden, GQ, US Magazine and Newsweek. · DGM Technologies, Inc. announced the launch of TutorGig.com, a portal that helps Internet users to quickly and easily find tutorials on any subject. A beta site since spring 2002, TutorGig.com has a database of over a million tutorial sites categorized by more than 2000 subjects. Miscellaneous · Holt, Rinehart and Winston -- adding to its portfolio of print and online textbooks and rich multimedia curricula -- announced the exclusive distribution rights of Encyclopaedia Britannica's Mathematics in Context (MiC), a middle school mathematics curriculum funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Encyclopaedia Britannica's MiC curriculum, based on National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards for mathematics achievement, draws students into learning with engaging problems that make mathematics problems meaningful. 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. |
