| Swedish newspapers reprint Prophet cartoon Stockholm, March 10 : Several Swedish newspapers Wednesday reprinted a controversial caricature of the Prophet Mohammed as a dog, the day after an alleged plot to murder the cartoonist was... | |
| New York Times Examines Factors Affecting VBAC Rates As NIH Conference Begins , the hospital "prides itself" on having higher VBAC rates and lower overall c-section rates than wealthier, more renowned hospitals. This week, NIH is hosting... |
| New York Times Examines Millennium Villages In Africa New York Times examines development and health improvements in Sauri, Kenya, which was the first Millennium Village in Africa, a project conceived by economist Jeffrey Sachs, which aims "to show that... |
| Digital Ad Revenue to Rocket for Local Media - Katy Bachman, Mediaweek The growth of digital advertising revenue for local TV and radio will outpace overall ad spending for those media between 2009 and 2014, according to a BIA/Kelsey... |
| Moonves: Advertisers, TV Affiliates Will Pay More for CBS Les Moonves CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves has put advertisers and local affiliates on notice: both will soon be paying more. Advertisers will face higher prices for commercials running on... |
| ABC News: Where Does Somalia's Food Aid Go? Internally displaced persons receive aid at a food distribution point in Torotow village in Lower Shabelle Region, 65 km (40 miles) from Mogadishu, April 13, 2009. Up to half the food aid intended... |
| McClatchy Newspapers: N. Carolina state school board member dies after beating RALEIGH, N.C. — The assault of State Board of Education member Kathy Taft became a homicide Tuesday when she succumbed to her injuries. Emergency workers rushed Taft, 62, of Greenville,... |
| FP Newspapers Income Fund Reports Fourth Quarter 2009 Results WINNIPEG, MANITOBA--(Marketwire - March 10, 2010) - FP Newspapers Income Fund ("the Fund") (TSX:FP.UN) announces financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. FP Newspapers Income Fund... |
| Swedish newspapers publish cartoon day after murder plot arrests Stockholm - Several Swedish newspapers Wednesday reprinted a controversial caricature of the Prophet Mohammed as a dog, the day after an alleged plot to murder the cartoonist was disclosed. Seven... |
| Swedish Newspapers Publish Prophet Muhammad Drawing Lars Vilks speaks to the Associated Press in Klippan, Sweden on Oct. 1, 2007. Irish police arrested seven people Tuesday over an alleged plot to kill the Swedish artist for depicting the Prophet... |
| SXSWi: Let the geolocation games begin Gowalla , said to CNET in an interview last week about his company's plans for the annual South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi), which runs March 12-16 in Austin, Texas. "We're bringing,... |
| Hearst Preps Country Living for Ad Recovery. With advertisers starting to spend again, Hearst Magazines will unveil a bigger trim size and new marketing programs at Country Living to better position the magazine for an eventual ad recovery. ... |
| Foodie Site, Magazine Target Men Deen Bros Good Cooking is a new quarterly SIP. One doesn’t have to be a die-hard fan of Iron Chef to know that men have their own way of cooking and that it often involves meat, tongs and a... |
| LAT Uses 'Takeover' Ad for Front Page The Los Angeles Times broke new advertising ground Friday (March 5), adapting the homepage takeover concept from the Web to the front page of its print edition. Coinciding with the movie release ... |
| BlackBook to Style Issues After App We’ve seen magazines that sprang from Web sites and TV shows, so it seems it was only a matter of time until the mobile Web became the inspiration for print. Now, BlackBook Media is taking... |
| MSLO: Martha Stewart Gets New Series; Body + Soul Rebrands Martha Stewart Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia today will unveil a new unscripted series starring its namesake founder, changes to its Body + Soul magazine and plans for a new digital magazine as... |
| Fortune Redesigns for Changed Economic Climate Time Inc.’s Fortune is keeping its name, but a redesign aims to reflect a time when many of its readers have less of the prosperity that the name suggests. The next issue, which hits... |
| Anderson: iPad Will Solve Magazines' Business Problem Wired's Chris Anderson Chris Anderson has seen the future of magazines -- and it's on a tablet. In an address at the American Association of Advertising Agencies' Transformation Conference in... |
| Updated: Magazine Industry Promotes Itself Through Ads The magazine industry's marketing campaign logo Front-of-book ad placements are lucrative spots for magazine advertisers, but with the medium facing tough questions about its relevancy, close to... |
| Food Network Magazine Increases Rate Base Food Network Magazine, one of the few magazine success stories this year, announced another rate base increase. The title will go to 1.25 million with the July/August issue from 1 million. The... |
| Glamour Readies iPad Edition Another big magazine is prepping a version for the Apple iPad tablet—and this time, it’s a woman’s title, Glamour. Most of the big titles that are pushing their magazines toward... |
| Publishers Pitch Power of Medium to Automakers With Toyota trying to recover from its safety recalls and rival automakers angling for its market share, local newspapers and broadcasters have largely reaped the advertising benefits. But ... |
| Hearst Harnesses Web Video -By Lucia Moses Two Hearst fashion magazines will run Web video series on their sites in a behind-the-scenes approach to Fashion Week coverage. Marie Claire armed editorial staffers with... |
| Motor Trend Classic Gets Resurrected -By Lucia Moses As publishers look for ways to charge consumers for content, Source Interlink Cos. is testing the market for high-priced magazines by resurrecting Motor Trend Classic, an... |
| People StyleWatch Names Karin Tracy Publisher -By Lucia Moses Time Inc. drew from within its ranks to fill the publisher slot at the young, fast-growing People StyleWatch, naming Karin Tracy from associate publisher of bigger, sibling... |
| Mags Ditching Audit Bureau of Circulations Worth (pictured) a title that has left the ABC. The recession has forced many publications to re-evaluate their business practices, and for many niche and regional magazines, one result has been... |
| OK! Taps P&G for Olympics Coverage Who knew celebrity-obsessed women were also into the biathlon? As a sponsor of the Winter Olympics and a big advertiser, Procter & Gamble has an interest in getting maximum promotion of the ... |
| Working Mother Jumps on Celeb Cover Bandwagon -By Lucia Moses The newsstand is getting more crowded with celeb covers. Prevention, Scholastic Parent & Child and now Working Mother have recently starting using stars on their covers.... |
| Michelle Myers Tapped as Lucky Publisher Michelle Myers Condé Nast has reached outside its ranks again for two high-profile appointments at Lucky and GQ magazines. Michelle Myers was plucked from Time Inc.’s People... |
| ABC: Better Homes and Gardens Tops Reader's Digest Reader’s Digest, which once had bragging rights as the biggest-selling consumer magazine, can no longer claim that title, the Audit Bureau of Circulation’s latest figures reveal. ... |
| Zinio Preps Ad Net -By Lucia Moses As the attention publishers are paying to the app versions of their core titles grows, Zinio, the digital publishing firm, on Feb. 22 plans to launch an ad network with an... |
| Bed Bath Line a 'Real Simple' Offer for Women A first look at the new Real Simple line. Real Simple is taking its well-known brand into the home with a new line of household products at Bed Bath & Beyond. The Real Simple Solutions line... |
| Magazine Marketing Pact to Roll Out in April Jann Wenner (pictured) is one of the publishers involved in the deal. The five rival publishing companies that are collaborating on a magazine marketing campaign plan to announce details of the ... |
| Jet Realigns Edit Strategy Facing steep ad-page declines, Jet announced a new editorial strategy aimed at connecting with its African-American audience. Beginning with the Feb. 15 issue, which goes on sale Feb. 8, the ... |
| Mags See Newsstand Woes Waning Finally, some good news for magazines—sort of. After a punishing first half on the newsstand, many of the industry’s biggest newsstand sellers saw sales declines ease in the second... |
| Time Inc., Smithsonian Cut Integrated Sales Deal Seeking to add scale for marketers, Time Inc. and Smithsonian Media announced a partnership in which Time Inc. will include Smithsonian’s print and digital properties in its integrated sales ... |
| Hearst, Meredith Try Web-to-Print Titles Light & Delish (pictured) is a bookazine based on content from Delish. Is reverse publishing becoming a growing trend for magazines? Normally, magazines launch Web sites from print brands. But... |
| GroupM Signs on for TRA Service - Katy Bachman, Mediaweek.com GroupM has become the second major agency to sign a deal with TRA, a research service that links TV ratings to product-purchase behavior. A hybrid TV ratings... |
| ABC News: Aid Group Attacked in Pakistan; 6 Dead Suspected militants armed with grenades attacked the offices of a Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six employees and wounding several... |
| HOT loses money, customers in cable TV ) published its financial report for the full year of 2009, before the market opened today. Figures show that the telecommunications company continues to struggle in the TV sector, even as it sees... |
| Ex-CBS Producer Pleads Guilty in Letterman Blackmail Case - Steve McClellan Former CBS News producer Robert Halderman pled guilty today to charges stemming from his alleged attempt to blackmail CBS late-night TV host David Letterman last fall. ... |
| Oscar Telecast Draws 5 Million More Viewers ABC's Academy Awards telecast Sunday night drew an average 41.3 million viewers, 5 million more than last year, making it the most-watched (non-sports) entertainment telecast in five years, ... |
| Initiative Names Strategy Chief Eric Bader Initiative has tapped digital expert Eric Bader as its global chief strategy officer, a new position at the IPG agency. Bader will be based in New York and report to the shop's... |
| Hallmark Channel Improves Ad Sales Take - Anthony Crupi, Mediaweek After enduring four consecutive quarters of declining ad sales revenue, Hallmark Channel turned things around in the final three months of 2009, as improved pricing... |
| 4A's: What's Delaying Ad Addressability? - Steve McClellan The ability to target ads to individual households on a scaled nationwide basis is a technique that's been in development for decades. And how long full-scale implementation... |
| 4A's: Unilever Exec Says Brands Must Move Past TV Spots Unilever's Kathy O'Brien Unilever's creative agencies need to "move past their reliance on the 30-second spot" and focus more on social media efforts to keep up with modern consumers. So said... |
| 4A's: 'Wired' Chief Says iPad Will Rescue Magazines Chris Anderson Chris Anderson has seen the future of magazines -- and it's on a tablet. In an address at the American Association of Advertising Agencies' Transformation Conference in San... |
| 4A's: Burke Backs Broadcast Steve Burke Comcast chief operating officer Steve Burke renewed his pledge to support NBC as a broadcast property and expressed confidence in the television advertising marketplace during an... |
| 4A's: For Teens, Social Media's Up, Newspapers Way Down Social media networks are here to stay. Newspapers have perhaps half a decade left as a mainstream source of information. So said Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at... |
| 4A's: Shops, Clients Must Join the Conversation Ian Schafer of Deep Focus As social media continues to become part of consumers' everyday lives, agencies and clients will have to reorganize themselves to accommodate that trend or risk being... |