[caption id="attachment_61878" align="alignright" width="150"] David Carey[/caption] Months after a $200 million acquisition of one of his company's largest competitors, David Carey has revealed plans to depart Hearst Magazines following eight years at the division's helm. Hearst Corp. CEO Steven Swartz informed staffers this morning that Carey will step down as president of Hearst Magazines at the end of 2018, after which he will spend a year as chairman while the company searches for a successor. Prior to joining Hearst and assuming command of a portfolio containing the likes of Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Esquire, Carey spent several years at Condé Nast, including seven as VP and publisher of The New Yorker. His tenure at Hearst saw the launches of Dr. Oz the Good Life, HGTV Magazine, and The Pioneer Woman, as well as the landmark acquisition of Rodale Inc., which brought in titles like Men's Health, Women's Health, and Prevention, among others. "The magazine business worldwide, like all print media, faces change and challenge, but it’s an industry we’ve led for more than 100 years and we will continue to do so," wrote Swartz in the memo to staffers. "Under David, we have become a preeminent global digital publishing company while continuing to launch innovative print editions." In a company-wide letter issued in December, Carey reported a slight decline for the magazine group in 2017—following four straight years of earnings growth—and vowed to "further... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
‘Maman & Me’ author Roya Shariat talks about writing her cookbook while overseeing social impact and partnerships at Glossier. From the time she sat down with Glossier founder Emily Weiss for a job interview, Roya Shariat told anyone who would listen that her dream was to write a cookbook.... Continue reading at Fast Company
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A listing of new and forthcoming adult, children’s, and young adult fiction and nonfiction titles on the history and social impact of Juneteenth (June 19,1865), the newly enacted national holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans at the end of the Civil War. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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[caption id="attachment_182909" align="alignright" width="150"] Dan Peres[/caption] Dan Peres is taking over Ad Age as its next editor-in-chief, succeeding Brian Braiker, who left in April after three years atop the masthead. Peres is best known as the former editor-in-chief of Details, a role... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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[caption id="attachment_182909" align="alignright" width="150"] Dan Peres[/caption] Dan Peres is taking over Ad Age as its next editor-in-chief, succeeding Brian Braiker, who left in April after three years atop the masthead. Peres is best known as the former editor-in-chief of Details, a role... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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[caption id="attachment_175628" align="alignright" width="150"] Stuart Emmrich[/caption] Less than a year after being named editor of Vogue.com, Stuart Emmrich is stepping down from that role, Folio: has confirmed. Emmrich, the former longtime editor of The New York Times' Styles section who... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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Weeks after issuing an earnings that report that revealed the company lost $295 million last year, publication printer LSC Communications is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Bloomberg reports, citing "people with knowledge of the plans." The news comes less than a year after the... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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[caption id="attachment_178530" align="alignright" width="215"] The March 2020 cover of Playboy.[/caption] It seems Playboy's Spring 2020 issue, on newsstands this week, will be its last. The 66 year-old magazine is ceasing regular production of its print edition and moving ahead with a... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-03-18 21:08:45 UTC ]
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Developing story: Leipzig Book Fair shutters its planned March 12 to 15 show; London Book Fair still hanging fire amid more cancellations. The post Coronavirus: Leipzig Book Fair Is Canceled; London Still On, Pan Mac Now Out with Hachette Livre appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Developing story: The States' Macmillan and HarperCollins pull out of London Book Fair over the weekend, along with the Hachette US rights team. The post Coronavirus: LBF Says It’s a Go for Now; US Macmillan, Hachette Sales and HarperCollins Exit appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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Employees at ad agencies, tech companies and brands skipped work today to join the Global Climate Strike, a protest of government and corporate inaction on climate change. Today's strike, scheduled just ahead of the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York, is the third event in a series of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-20 22:10:02 UTC ]
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The shakeup continues at SourceMedia. Chief content officer David Longobardi is out after 11 years in the role and 15 with the company as it prepares to reveal a series of new additions to its executive team, Folio: has learned. The lone holdover on a five-person C-suite that has now entirely... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-08-22 18:08:05 UTC ]
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Sarah Yerkes didn’t begin writing until she was in her 90s, but last month, at the age of 101, she released her first collection of poems, Days of Blue and Flame. A graduate of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a 74-year resident of Washington D.C., Yerkes had decades-long... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-07-29 16:21:29 UTC ]
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Advantage Business Marketing—the Rockaway, N.J.-based B2B media company formerly known as Advantage Business Media until rebranding in a last-ditch pivot to marketing services a year ago—abruptly shut its doors this week, notifying its more than 50 employees that they were out of a job,... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-06-19 21:06:21 UTC ]
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While the future of America's biggest sports magazine remains an open question, its second-biggest will soon call it quits on print entirely. ESPN The Magazine will shutter its monthly print edition after September's annual Body Issue, its parent company announced Tuesday morning, ending a... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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EnsembleIQ—the b2b media company formed two years ago out of the merger of three smaller publishers—is undergoing a reorganization this month, grouping its 20 media brands into four distinct market verticals and trimming its overall headcount by around 10 percent, according to multiple... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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After months of searching, Meredith Corporation has finally found a proper suitor for Time magazine. On Sunday, September 16, the company announced it has sold the legacy brand it acquired in January this year for $190 million in cash to Marc and Lynne Benioff. Marc Benioff is the founder,... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anil Narang and Carl Wistreich—chairman and CEO, respectively, of AC Business Media—have sold their majority stake in the Wisconsin-based trade magazine publisher to Florida-based private equity firm Boyne Capital, the two sides announced Thursday. Concurrent with the sale, former Grand View... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: BuzzFeed, the for-profit, venture... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_61878" align="alignright" width="150"] David Carey[/caption] Months after a $200 million acquisition of one of his company's largest competitors, David Carey has revealed plans to depart Hearst Magazines following eight years at the division's helm. Hearst Corp. CEO... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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