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Fred Drasner, Avenue Capital Said to Submit Bids for Newsweek
July 2, 2010
From Business Week
Media executive Fred Drasner and investment firm Avenue Capital Group submitted separate offers to purchase Newsweek magazine ahead of yesterday's deadline for final offers, according to two people close to the process....
2 Suitors for Newsweek Are Said to Be Ruled Out
July 1, 2010
From New York Times Dealbook Blog
With a 5 p.m. Thursday deadline approaching for the final round of bids, at least two people were preparing to make offers for
Newsweek while two others were told by the magazine's owners that their bids would not be considered, Jeremy W. Peters reports in...
Changing the Course at Newsweek
June 7, 2010
From The New York Times
Sometime this summer, someone other than The Washington Post will probably own the renowned brand of Newsweek. When I wrote about the pending sale in this column last week, I waxed philosophical about the meaning of a newsweekly magazine in 2010 and prattled on about how ill-conceived Newsweek’s latest redesign
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The Separation of Church and Pews
May 2010
From Publishing Executive
In mid May, Time Inc. announced the promotion of Brendan Ripp, former vice president of sales, to publisher of
Time. But the real news to me was that part of this transition was
Time's "formal integration of print and digital ad sales."
A Cultural Artifact, on the Block
June 1, 2010
From The New York Times
This Wednesday at close of business, the first nonbinding letters of interest are due for Newsweek. If I were at the Washington Post Company, which is selling the weekly after owning it for almost 50 years, I wouldn't be waiting at the mailbox....
Woodwing Software Parnters With The Wonderfactory to Enable Publishers to Produce Content for the iPad
April 5, 2010
From News
The Wonderfactory, a New York-based digital strategy and design agency focused on publishers and advertisers, and WoodWing Software, supplier of innovative cross-media publishing solutions, have collaborated on a publishing industry first: tools that enable publishers to produce beautifully-designed and compelling content for the iPad in almost the same way they create content for print.
The New Era of Mobile
February 2010
From Publishing Executive
The 8:15 a.m. train to Grand Central Terminal was crowded, and, standing in the back of the car, I observed the commuting rituals of 30 suburban New Yorkers. Eight were reading newspapers, five listening to iPods, five on BlackBerrys, and four were engaged in honest-to-goodness, face-to-face conversations. A lone Kindle made an appearance toward the front of the car. The balance spent the 27-minute ride into Manhattan staring out the windows or sleeping.
Circulation Consultant Dan Capell Dies
January 14, 2010
From min online
Dan Capell, who parlayed a successful magazine career into a successful consultancy, passed away Jan. 11 after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 64.
He joined Time Inc. after his 1967 graduation from Bucknell University and was Sports Illustrated circulation director before turning 30. At Newsweek in the...
Newsweek Lays Off 12
November 12, 2009
From min online
Newsweek editor-in-chief Jon Meacham informed staff yesterday of “about a dozen layoffs” at the newsweekly. In a memo obtained by minonline, Meacham told staffers, “I have no spin to offer.” The cutbacks are a business decision driven by the troubled publishing environment.
Echoing a lament heard in newsrooms...
Google Launches New Digital Reading Service
September 18, 2009
From PE Inbox
Google has launched a beta version of FastFlip, its new digital reading service the company hopes will make it easier to read magazines and newspapers online.