[caption id="attachment_126571" align="alignright" width="150"] Eric Zinczenko[/caption] After five years as CEO and 14 years with Bonnier Corp., Eric Zinczenko will be stepping down. Replacing Zinczenko will 25-year company vet, David Ritchie, who had been serving as EVP of operations out of the company's Winter Park, Florida headquarters, where most of its water sports enthusiast brands are housed. This news comes less than 6 months after the Wall Street Journal reported that the publisher of Popular Science, Outdoors, Field & Stream and Saveur was seeking a buyer for its magazine division, which includes those brand assets. [caption id="attachment_182797" align="alignright" width="150"] David Ritchie[/caption] “David’s track record and deep understanding of all facets of the company as former COO and CCO make him the right choice to lead Bonnier Corp. into the future,” said chairman of the board Dr. Jens Mueffelmann in a press release. “What impressed me working with David in the past couple of months was his true passion for our brands, paired with a strong business acumen and a structured and hands-on approach to execution. These qualities will be critical to us in this pivotal time as we conclude efforts on mergers and acquisitions opportunities for our media properties, transform and restructure operations, and execute a clear go-forward plan for our nonmedia activities." Mueffelmann went on to thank Zinczenko for his years of service to the company, but no... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-07-17 14:08:15 UTC ]
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Robert Thomson, CEO of HarperCollins parent company News Corp, told analysts News could make another purchase in the book industry following its purchase of Harlequin. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The sky-high valuations of digital publishers such as BuzzFeed and Vox are fuelled by the idea that the media company of the future also has to be a tech company. Almost every new digital media business from Mashable to Pierre Omidyar's First Loo ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Meredith and David Zinczenko's Galvanized agency are partnering on the launch of a quarterly magazine built off of the latter's successful "Eat This, Not That!" healthy-eating franchise. The first issue will be distributed at 80,000 newsstands starting Dec. 2, though Meredith wouldn't release... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier Publishing has hired Julian Shaw as commercial director, with one of his first roles set to be keeping an eye on Hot Key Books until a replacement can be found for departing m.d. Sarah Odedina. Richard Johnson, c.e.o. at Bonnier Publishing, told The Bookseller that Hot Key Books is... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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But he doesn't provide any figures to back up his positive claims about subscriber totalsThe Times "is delivering both volume and higher revenue per subscriber", says the News Corp chief executive and former Times editor Robert Thomson.He added: "Digital, which already accounts for nearly... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier Publishing has acquired Igloo Books, saying the acquisition makes the publisher a "dominant force" in children's mass market publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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U.K.-based Bonnier Publishing has acquired Igloo Books in a deal that will make Bonnier one of the five largest children’s publishers in the U.K. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday published a moving essay in Bloomberg Businessweek in which he publicly announced for the first time that he is gay. Cook is the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to publicly come out.Cook is famously private and said he doesn’t think of himself as an activist,... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's not a shocker that print ad revenue has fallen while the pile of dimes from digital advertising has been growing. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2014-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp, Rupert Murdoch's media behemoth, is the latest source of criticism of Google. Robert Thomson, the chief executive of the company -- responsible for the Times and the Sun in the UK as well the book publisher HarperCollins -- has written to the European Commission to complain that the... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2014-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Conde Nast, the publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair, ended recent speculation Wednesday when it named former Fairchild Fashion Media President and CEO Gina Sanders to the newly created position of president of global development at Conde Nast.Two weeks ago, Conde Nast sold Fairchild, publisher of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonnier Publishing is on the scout to acquire other publishing companies as it seeks to double... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nina Paavolainen, CEO of Teos Publishing in Finland, highlights some of the company's up-and-coming authors, new titles and Finnish publishing trends ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ellora’s Cave CEO Patty Marks confirmed the house is downsizing in the wake of what she described as "drastic" and unexplained declines in its ebook sales via Amazon. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More than 1,000 writers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland have signed a letter to Amazon saying that the company has made Bonnier-published books less available and manipulated Amazon's recommended reading lists. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's German division has responded to criticism from close to 1,200 authors over its... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's fight with Hachette over ebook pricing just got extra-personal. Hot on the heels of writers attacking Jeff Bezos' "retaliation," the Amazon Books Team has posted a Readers United site that calls on you to email Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp., the global publishing conglomerate chaired by Rupert Murdoch, reaffirmed its commitment to print in the face of ongoing financial pressures that have upended the industry as more readers migrate from paper to digital platforms. "W ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After the acquisition Harlequin will operate as a standalone subsidiary of HarperCollins Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brian Murray, president and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers, will be the sole speaker at the Frankfurt Book Fair’s annual CEO discussion. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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