Digital chief on rethinking the rules of journalism, shaking off the magazine group tag, and developing innovationM Scott Havens, senior vice president of digital at newly independent Time Inc is not a man to pussyfoot around journalistic conventions. We have to rethink the old church and state rules of journalism, he says. That doesnt mean we violate journalistic integrity or the trust we have with our readership. But [these rules] were for a different medium and a different age.A profitable age, too, he might have added, and one that Time Inc, a venerable fixture of US publishing and home to titles such as Time, Sports Illustrated and People, will forever be associated with. In 2014, however, things have changed. At the start of June Time Inc was spun off from parent company Time Warner in a move that media analyst Ken Doctor described as an orphaning of distressed publishing assets. He was hardly alone in his pessimistic view as Time Inc embarked on its debt-laden independence. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2014-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Earlier talks this year between Time Inc., the publisher of People and Sports Illustrated, and the Meredith Corporation fizzled out. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2017-11-16 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-related news. You can now get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Click here, or search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app.What people are talking about today: The Koch... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-11-16 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-related news. What people are talking about today: The Houston Astros won the World Series by beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in Game 7. Sports Illustrated prophesied the Astros' win in a cover... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner is putting his majority stake up for sale, ready to relinquish control of the magazine that has stood for the bible of pop culture since the late 1960s.The magazine, known for cutting-edge music, political and cultural reporting, is the latest publication to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook, giving back publishers a piece of their identities, is letting them display their logos alongside headlines. It's a move meant to appease media partners that feel they've lost the power of their brands when posting articles to social media.On Tuesday, the social network released new... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2017-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hunter Greene is joining an elite group of athletes that includes LeBron James, Bryce Harper and Kevin Garnett. All were featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated as high school athletes. The Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High School baseball player will be only the 13th high school athlete ever... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are grappling with a decline in home page traffic. Bloomberg Media seems to have found a remedy, though. When it relaunched its tech vertical, rather than implementing the traditional infinite scroll of articles, Bloomberg Media decided to send people to the vertical’s homepage. The... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2017-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While most legacy media organizations have spent years integrating print and digital newsrooms and commercial teams, there are some who believe that there is a severe lack of understanding at the top in how to juggle the different requirements of a high-growth digital media business and a... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time is facing one of its most critical decisions since the magazine publisher was founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden in 1922.Should the company's board agree to a sale as its print advertising lifeblood continues to drain away? Or should it let new CEO Rich Battista implement his grand... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"The race for reach is over," Conde Nast International digital chief Wolfgang Blau said at the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe in Nice, France, on Thursday. Instead the focus is back to basics: building a passionate audience around a topic and establishing deep connections to them. For Conde... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A year after Facebook launched Instant Articles, 100 or so publishers were on board the fast-loading mobile article feature, which has its pros and cons. Perhaps that's why there have been some notable holdouts. Bloomberg Media, The Wall Street Journal and Vice News are among those that have all... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The angst was palpable at Digital Media Strategies 2016, an annual industry conference held on Wednesday and Thursday at a hotel in Times Square.While there are myriad challenges facing the media companies of today, combatting the power and market share of the social media giants -- often called... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A homecoming at Sports Illustrated, changes at Reader's Digest, and more... The post Meredith Shuffles Publishers | People on the Move – 8.31.16 appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Specs Current gig Editor of Food & Wine Previous gig Director of inspiration for Conrad Hotels Age 45 Twitter @NilouMotamed Adweek: Food & Wine's last editor, Dana Cowin, had been with the brand for more than two decades when she stepped down earlier this year. What's it like... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. is the latest old-media giant to add new-media has-been MySpace to its portfolio. The New York publishing company of Sports Illustrated, People, InStyle and Entertainment Weekly has acquired Viant Technology Inc., an Irvine, California, ad-tech company that owns MySpace. Time (NYSE:... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kelly takes on new role of chief content officer as regional newspaper publisher builds its online presenceRegional newspaper group Archant has appointed Matt Kelly, Local World’s digital chief, to the newly-created role of chief content officer.Kelly, who previously spent six years at publisher... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Teri Hayt has worked for both large and small news organization during her 35-year career in the publishing industry. She’s worked for Time-Life Books, Inc., the Arizona Daily Star, Sports Illustrated, Newsday, the San Diego Union-Tribune ( ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A native ad for Fidelity will appear on the cover of the latest issue of Forbes, which hits newsstands on Monday. The ad is on the actual cover -- it's not part of a foldout or second cover.Forbes was among the first publications to fully embrace native advertising -- a tactic where ads seek to... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2015-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. wants the ability to outsource nearly 200 editorial jobs overseas, according to the Newspaper Guild of New York, which has been locked in an 18-month-long contract negotiation with the nation's largest magazine publisher, owner of People, Sports Illustrated and InStyle, among... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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