Time Inc. Names New Editors, Including a Former Hill Holliday and JWT Exec

Time Inc., the nation's largest magazine publisher and owner of titles like People and Time, announced another editorial shakeup Wednesday, marking its second masthead move in a week.Hunter Lewis, the executive editor at Time Inc.'s Southern Living magazine, was named editor of Cooking Light on Wednesday. He replaces Scott Mowbray, who is retiring from the magazine after 17 years with Time Inc., the company said.Cooking Light's paid and verified circulation through the first half of 2014 is about 1.8 million, roughly the same as last year, according to the Alliance for Audited Media, which tracks magazine circulation. Print ad pages have declined 2% through September, according to Media Industry Newsletter. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2014-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with: #named editor #cooking light #verified circulation #audited media

Other Publishing stories related to: 'Time Inc. Names New Editors, Including a Former Hill Holliday and JWT Exec'


New NY Times CEO could make $10.5M

The New York Times Co. named former BBC director general Mark Thompson as its new CEO earlier this week, and now comes word that he will receive a pay package totaling as much as $10.5 million, including an annual salary of $1 million, according to Bloomberg News. Mr. Thompson, who was... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2012-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #print editions #boost revenue #digital products #online access


Cengage Learning among bidders for McGraw-Hill Education

Cengage Learning is among the companies that have put in initial bids for McGraw-Hill... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #cengage learning #mcgraw-hill education


Borders online store to lose its name

The Borders name will soon be retired as the Pearson Group looks to rebrand the remaining online... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Time To Unpackage: Publishing In The Age Of Social Media

Social media is young and its impact on news publishing is still unfolding. It’s unlikely that sharing and commenting will be the only major trends to emerge from the social revolution. News publishers, already beset by extraordinary change ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #news publishing #major trends #news publishers


Three more Will Hill for HC

YA author Will Hill will finish publishing his Department 19 series with HarperCollins after the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #ya author


Self-publishing Goes Big Time

If it wasn’t clear before that self-publishing is transforming the book industry, Pearson’s $116 million acquisition of self-publishing vendor Author Solutions Inc. should wipe away any lingering uncertainty. The purchase of Author Solutions—which has 1,600 employees, has published 150,000... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #big time #book industry #$100 million


Hill on Forward Best Collection shortlist

The Oxford professor of poetry Geoffrey Hill has been shortlisted for the £10,000 Forward... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


How Much Does the Times Book Review Matter?

The front page of the New York Times Book Review has always been—and continues to be—a much coveted spot for authors and publishers alike. But just how much does a Book Review cover affect a book’s sales in today’s publishing climate—does the revered paper publication still move units in the... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #print sales #front page #coveted spot #publishers alike #digital age #nielsen bookscan #gray lady


'Include readers in creative process', FutureBook hears

Publishers should let the reader into the creative process and look to incubate start-ups in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #creative process #futurebook hears


Flipboard Rival: New York Times Deal is Good News for the Media Industry

Publishing giants The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal firmed up exclusive deals with Flipboard and Pulse earlier in the week for exclusive content to go out to these third-party mobile apps, but as one Flipboard rival explains, this news c ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #media industry #exclusive content


App Retention Increases, One-Time Usage Drops

As the app market evolves, a publisher’s success is measured less by the number of downloads and more by the engagement level and number of returning customers. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Time Broadcasts Its First Google+ Hangout On Air

Last week, Time magazine hosted its first Google+ "Hangout On Air,"a video chat that is streamed live to the public and shared via Google+, YouTube and Time.com.  Hangouts On Air are an offshoot of Google+'s standard Hangouts Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #video chat


The New York Times Gets All The News That's Fit to Print – All of It – Into Flipboard

It's the first time you can read all of the Times on a site or app not owned by the Times. And it's the first time Flipboard has gotten a big publisher to hand over all its content. Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2012-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #big publisher


Hill and Berry made CBEs in Queen's Birthday Honours

Author Susan Hill has been awarded a CBE for services to literature in the Queen's Birthday... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #birthday honours


Time Inc. relents, moves iOS magazines to Newsstand

Time Inc. appears to have relented in its refusal to sell subscriptions via its iOS apps, from which Apple takes a 30 percent commission. The Sports Illustrated publisher had resisted the move, forcing people to subscribe to the print edition in order to receive it digitally, but an update has... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #ios apps #sell subscriptions #apple takes


Media Decoder Blog: Foer Returns to New Republic as Editor

Two months after obtaining a majority stake in the magazine, Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, is bringing back Franklin Foer as part of an ambitious plan to remake the magazine. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2012-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #majority stake #chris hughes #ambitious plan


Big Names Top The Charts

The top three titles on Sweden’s fiction list in April were all in new positions, including Kristina Ohlsson’s Hostage. Ohlsson published her first book in the U.S. in February 2012 with Atria—Unwanted, a mystery cited for “superior prose, plotting, and characterization” in its starred review... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #top title #fiction list #starred review


New Name, Same Mission

With a steady erosion of traditional audiences and the rise of new markets, as well as the growth in electronic publishing and self-publishing, some religion publishers have decided to refresh or reimagine their brands. In some cases, that means a more up-to-date name, in others a return to a... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #electronic publishing #religion publishers


Los Angeles Times Shutting Down LA Magazine

The Los Angeles Times is shutting down its monthly Sunday magazine, LA. The last issue will be June 3rd and the closure comes after attempts to recast the publication through frequency reductions, management shifts and editorial change-ups. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #frequency reductions


Time magazine breastfeeding cover: A shocking 'stroke of genius'

Time magazine's breastfeeding cover story asks: "Are You Mom Enough?" But it might as well ask: "Who Says Print Is Dead?" Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #time magazine