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Friday, August 15, 2003 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes Launches and Redesigns | Miscellaneous People · iVillage Inc., a women's media company, announced that Nancy Evans, iVillage Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, has resigned from iVillage and from the Company's Board of Directors. Kellie Gould, a 7-year iVillage veteran, has been named the Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief. Most recently, Ms. Gould served as Senior Vice President, Programming, where she directed iVillage's editorial team, helped guide iVillage's programming and oversaw the business operations of the editorial department. Her other responsibilities have included overseeing the Hearst Magazine Group, which creates the content for the Hearst Magazine sites residing on iVillage. Ms. Gould is heavily involved in product development including iVillage's for-pay offering and services and the creation of the iVillage Solutions book series, published in conjunction with Rutledge Hill Press. She also served as editor of and wrote the forward to "Best Advice on Finding Mr. Right" of the series. Ms. Gould began her career in journalism as a researcher/reporter for AdWeek Magazines. Before joining iVillage, she was a Features Associate at Vogue. · The Christian Science Board of Directors has elected M. Victor Westberg of Los Altos, California to be a Director. Mr. Westberg succeeds John L. Selover, who passed away August 1, as a member of the five-person Board and as Manager of The Christian Science Publishing Society, which publishes The Christian Science Monitor. · Ziff Davis Media Inc. announced the promotion of Angelo Mandarano to Vice President of Eastern Sales, Internet. Mr. Mandarano was formerly the Key Accounts Director of Ziff Davis Internet. Mr. Mandarano joined Ziff Davis in 1999, where he managed ZDNet. Previously he worked for CMP Media, Oppenheimer Company and Smith Barney. · Peter Sikowitz, Editor-in-Chief of American Media's Men's Fitness, announced that Warren Christopher has joined the magazine as Fashion Director. Mr. Christopher spent 10 years at Barneys New York as the Director of Shopping Services and then joined Fairchild Publications, where he created the Personal Shopper program at Fairchild's M magazine. After leaving Fairchild Publications, Mr. Christopher joined Esquire and then took the reigns as the New York-based Style Editor of Men's Health. He later became the Fashion Director of Yahoo! Internet Life magazine. · William L. Davis, chairman, president and chief executive officer of RR Donnelley, announced his plans to retire. Davis will remain with the company until his replacement is named. The board of directors is conducting a search for a successor. · Judy Gibbons has been appointed corporate vice president of the newly established MSN International group. Gibbons, who most recently served as vice president of MSN EMEA, will in her new position direct overall sales, marketing and business development for MSN International. Gibbons' new position includes responsibility for maintaining MSN's leadership in communication services and advertising sales as well as continuing to build a strong global subscription business. · Daniel A. Greenspun, Greenspun Media Group (GMG) Chairman, announced the promotion of Michael T. Carr to GMG president and Roger Saunders to GMG executive vice president. Carr joined GMG in January as vice president of business development and launched Vegas Magazine last month as the first national lifestyle magazine for Las Vegas. Carr will remain co-publisher of Vegas Magazine and continue to report to Phillip C. Peckman, chief operating officer for The Greenspun Corporation. Carr's career includes over 20 years of publishing experience, most recently as president of publishing for Playboy. Prior to joining Playboy, Carr served as president and CEO of Wieder Publications. Saunders will now report to Carr. · CurtCo Media, which acquired wealth management monthly, Worth magazine last month, has announced the appointment of former SmartMoney Magazine Publisher Robert P. Fritze to the position of Vice President, Publisher of Robb Report Worth, which is scheduled to debut in October. Mr. Fritze, who brings 16 years of publishing experience to his new position, spent nine years at SmartMoney. Mr. Fritze joined SmartMoney Magazine in 1993 as an Account Executive, was promoted to New York Advertising Manager a year later, to Advertising Director in 1995, Associate Publisher/Advertising Director in 1996 and ultimately to Publisher in 2000. Earlier in his career, he spent seven years in key advertising sales positions at The Wall Street Journal. · Meredith Corporation announced that Brenda Saget Darling will become Publisher of Traditional Home magazine, effective August 4. Ms. Saget Darling most recently held the position of Vice President/Publisher of Conde Nast Publications' House & Garden where she was responsible for sales and marketing of the magazine during her four year tenure. Ms. Saget Darling's publishing experience includes positions at several Conde Nast, Fairchild and Hachette Filipacchi titles. She served as Associate Publisher at The New Yorker and Elle Decor magazines as well as at House & Garden prior to her promotion to VP/Publisher. · Media General has announced two top-level appointments in its Tampa, Fla. market. Ronald R. Redfern has been named to the newly created position of president, Florida Communications Group, which includes newspapers, broadcast television and online operations. Gilbert C. Thelen has been named president and publisher of The Tampa Tribune, the largest of Media General's 25 daily newspapers. Redfern assumes his new position effective August 25, and Thelen, who has been acting publisher since May, assumes his new duties immediately. Redfern will oversee Media General's converged operations in Tampa. Thelen joined The Tampa Tribune in 1998 as vice president and executive editor. He was promoted to senior vice president and executive editor of the paper in 2001. Prior to joining Media General, he was vice president and executive editor at The State, a Columbia, S.C. daily. He was also executive vice president for news and operations and editor at The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, S.C. · Hearst Magazines President Cathleen P. Black announced that Mary E. Morgan has been named vice president and publisher of Redbook magazine, succeeding Jayne E. Jamison who was recently named vice president and publisher of Seventeen, a magazine that Hearst acquired May 30. Morgan will report to Michael A. Clinton, executive vice president, chief marketing officer and publishing director of Hearst Magazines, effective immediately. Morgan, most recently was vice president/publisher of Time Inc.'s health magazine, which she joined in 1997. Prior to health, she was the associate publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal. Earlier, Morgan was associate group publisher of Gruner + Jahr's Parenthood Division, with sales and marketing responsibility for Parents and Child magazines, along with five newborn titles. · Michael Dunn, 44, formerly chief technology officer and executive vice president of Encoda Systems, Inc., has joined Hearst Interactive Media as a vice president. Commenting on the announcement, Prior to his role at Encoda Systems, Inc., Dunn served as corporate chief technology officer for Time Warner Inc. · The New York Times announced that Adam Moss has been named assistant managing editor for features, a new position overseeing the Culture and Style sections, The New York Times Magazine, the Book Review, Travel, Circuits, Real Estate, Escapes and special sections. Mr. Moss has been an associate managing editor and editor of The New York Times Magazine. A new editor for the Magazine is expected to be named shortly. Mr. Moss, 46, was named an associate managing editor of The New York Times in 2000, continuing to act as editor of The New York Times Magazine, which he was named in 1998. He joined the magazine as editorial director in 1993. Previously he was a consulting editor to The Times, working on the development and redesign of various sections of the paper from 1991 to 1993. · Janice Min, previously executive editor of Us magazine, has been appointed to editor-in-chief. The announcement was made today by Jann S. Wenner, Chairman and CEO of Wenner Media. Min, 33, has served as executive editor for the magazine since joining the magazine in March 2002. Wenner also announced that Us will raise its rate base in January 2004 to 1,200,000. · Houghton Mifflin announced that Anthony Lucki will be joining the Company as CEO on October 1. Lucki was formerly president of Harcourt Inc., Reed Elsevier's U.S.-based K-12 publishing business. Lucki worked at Houghton Mifflin from 1977 to 1987, ending as executive editor in the Reading Department of the School Division. · Hearst Magazines President Cathleen P. Black has announced management changes focused on the company's teen titles: Atoosa Rubenstein and Jayne Jamison have been named editor-in-chief and VP/publisher, respectively, of Seventeen magazine; and Susan Schulz, most recently executive editor of CosmoGIRL!, has been promoted to the editor-in-chief position, succeeding Rubenstein. All assume their new roles effective immediately. Rubenstein succeeds Sabrina Weill, and Jamison succeeds Ellen Abramowitz. Successors to Jamison and Schulz will be named soon. In addition, Black announced that a rate base adjustment from 2.35 million to 2.1 million will be effective with Seventeen's January 2004 issue. Digital Publishing · Palm Digital Media, Inc., a publisher and distributor of ebooks, released its list of July's Top 10 best-selling ebooks. July 2003 Palm Digital Media Top 10 Best-selling Fiction Ebooks
· The Family Handyman magazine announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with DoItYourself.com, an independent home improvement website. The partnership will allow advertisers to tap into the online audience of the website, while the site is bolstered by additional content from The Family Handyman. DoItYourself.com is headquartered in Raritan, New Jersey. It is an affiliate of Mill Valley, CA based Advice Company, which also operates the consumer legal information website, FreeAdvice.com. · Johnson Publishing Company, an African-American-owned publishing company, is partnering with RR Donnelley to produce Ebony and Jet magazines. Under the agreement, RR Donnelley will provide a comprehensive and integrated solution that includes print and bind as well as logistics. Johnson Publishing Company was founded in 1942 by Publisher and Chairman John H. Johnson. His daughter, Linda Johnson Rice is President and CEO. · Books24x7, a subsidiary of SkillSoft PLC and the developer of online reference materials for IT and business professionals, announced that it had signed a multi-year agreement with John Wiley & Sons to add 36 titles published by Wrox Press, an imprint specializing in books for computer programmers. Under the agreement, Books24x7 will begin to immediately add the full line of Wrox titles to ITPro, its online library for technical professionals; all 36 titles should be live by the end of 2003. Books24x7 also plans to add new titles published under the Wrox imprint as they are released. · Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing wholly devoted to media tie-ins for all ages, and Scholastic, a publisher and distributor of children's books, announced that they will each publish a line of books based on HIT Entertainment's new animated television series Rubbadubbers; Simon Spotlight will publish novelty and storybook formats and Scholastic will publish coloring and activity formats. Spotlight and Scholastic are coordinating sales and marketing efforts with national accounts to assure a major Rubbadubbers presence when the books launch in Summer 2004. · ProQuest Company, a publisher of information educational solutions and content, has acquired SIRS Publishing, Inc. (SIRS), the publisher of the SIRS Researcher, SIRS Discover, and SIRS Enduring Issues. With headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, SIRS Publishing is a leading provider of online, CD-ROM and print reference databases to more than 50,000 libraries worldwide. · STATS, Inc., a sports information provider, will provide turnkey operations management for SI.com's new suite of Fantasy games starting with the Football Season. STATS, Inc. will power SI.com's Fantasy games with enhanced features such as expanded player stats, improved live scoring features, facilitated game navigation, and the introduction of a Fantasy Football commissioner product. STATS, Inc. will be responsible for development, web hosting, technical operations and customer service of the games. · 101communications, a business-to-business publishing and multimedia company, based in Los Angeles, CA, has announced the sale of its list rental and event assets in the United Kingdom in two unrelated transactions. 101 has sold TargetFile, a list rental business with more than 150,000 IT professionals in its database, and XML/Web Services One, a UK conference, to Infoconomy, a London-based IT publisher, whose flagship property is Information Age. 101 has also sold Linux Expo, a London trade show that has been operating for five years and attracts more than 6000 attendees annually, to XPO Events Ltd., operator of Mac Expos in the UK and Germany. · South-Western, part of The Thomson Corporation, and a provider of business and economics learning solutions worldwide, announced the acquisition of Texere, a New York/London based publisher with a focus on finance, investment, economics, business technology, and management books. Launches and Redesigns · National Jeweler and the World Gold Council have launched a free, online information center designed to help retailers learn about the latest developments in gold jewelry and to provide key insights on ways to increase sales of gold merchandise. Located at goldprofitguide.com, the Online Gold Profit Guide features the latest gold jewelry news, sales and marketing strategies related to gold jewelry, a portfolio of new gold jewelry fashions, daily gold prices/market summary, key research conducted by the World Gold Council and online polls which allow retailers to learn new ideas and information about gold jewelry. · DegreeInfo.com has released an online database of quality, accredited distance learning institutions, available for free to all people looking for a degree. The DegreeFinder database is a searchable database of more than 300 fully accredited schools that offer degrees with little or no attendance in a physical classroom. Many of the schools in the database are well known for their traditional campus-based programs, while others specialize in online programs. US-based schools are accredited by the same Department of Education-recognized associations that oversee bricks-and-mortar schools such as Harvard and Princeton. · Belo Corp. announced its plan to launch a daily Spanish-language newspaper in Dallas/Fort Worth. Al Dia will be an entirely new publication, separate and distinct from The Dallas Morning News. As previously announced on June 26, 2003, Al Dia is scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter of 2003. · America Online, Inc., has announced the launch of AOL Communicator, a stand-alone, advanced communications product for AOL members that brings together enhanced email, instant messaging and a full-featured Address Book into one integrated suite. AOL Communicator is available at no additional charge to AOL members who can use it seamlessly with the AOL and AOL for Broadband services to manage their online communications. Miscellaneous · R.H. Donnelley Corporation, a publisher of yellow page directories, has announced that it is consolidating its Purchase, New York headquarters, along with recently acquired Sprint Publishing's Overland Park, Kansas headquarters, into a new location to be chosen in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area. The moves are expected to be completed toward the end of the first quarter of 2004. The Company will be transferring to Raleigh-Durham all 60 positions currently located in its Purchase headquarters, along with about 80 corporate function positions (out of 230 total positions) in Overland Park. All of the approximately 140 employees whose positions are being moved will be offered the opportunity to relocate to Raleigh-Durham. Approximately 150 employees primarily from sales, billing, collections, print and distribution will remain in Overland Park. R.H. Donnelley currently operates its 240-person Directory Services organization from Morrisville, N.C. 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. |
