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NEWS
- Entertainment Weekly Publishes First Monthly Issue, Featuring Its Biggest Redesign Ever
- MPA to Close New York Office and Move Headquarters to D.C., Prioritizing Gov’t Affairs
- Death of the Metered Paywall: Google Makes it Official
- Merger of Nation’s Largest Magazine, Book Publishers Called Off
- Future Media Group Acquires W Magazine from Condé Nast
Future Media Group Acquires W
- Publishers Struggle to Keep Up with the Speed of Change
- Hearst Magazines Enters SVOD Space with New Fitness App
- Firefox is Building an “Ad-Free Internet,” and Plans to Pay Publishers Directly
- Google Chrome’s Built-In Ad Blocker Rolls Out Globally Today (And There’s a New One in the Works)
- Time Magazine to Put Sponsored Content on Cover
- Instagram Introduces Ads to the “Explore” Feed
- Apple News+ to Make ‘Tweaks’ After Disappointing Performance for Publishers and Users
- Why Active Interest Media Salvaged 14 Titles From the F+W Bankruptcy
- Quad/Graphics, LSC Call Off $1.4B Merger After Justice Dept. Suit
- Getty Trust Leads Group of Foundations Acquiring Ebony Archives for $30M
- Mad Magazine to Effectively Shutter After 67 Year
- The Target Report: Print Publishing Remains in State of Turmoil
- Textbook Giant Pearson Makes Major Shift Away from Print to Digital
TRENDS
- Why Are Publishers Struggling to Master Paid Content Distribution?
- New Report: SEO and Content Marketing Jobs See Salary Boosts in 2019
Conductor’s Guide: SEO/Marketing Jobs
- How Magazine Publishers Are Cutting Print Costs to Improve Profits
- Hearst is Finding Success in Youtube, and is Pouring More Resources into Programming
- People Spend 3.6 Hours a Day on Mobile Devices: Publishers Need to Revamp Content for What the Mobile Audience Wants
- Publishers Are Building Revenue Models Around Rewarding Users: Will ‘Paying’ for Attention Pay?
- Why it’s Time for Publishers to Offer a Pay-Per-Article Option
- Dogs on Treadmills: Publishers are Finding LinkedIn Isn’t Just for Business and Careers News
- What Publishers Need to Know Before Implementing a Paywall: FIPP Report on Subscription Strategies
- “Faster Bandwidth Can Unlock New Ways to Tell Stories”: Publishers Get Ready for the 5G Era
- How a Publisher Used Organic Search to Boost On-Site Recirculation by 300%
- Practical Personalization: Adobe’s Tips for Creating Meaningful Moments with AI and Automation
- Why Luxury Titles Are Poised to Survive the Next 5 Years
- It’s Not Print That’s Broken, It’s Frequencies
- ‘Hard to Justify Investing Resources’: Publishers Still Cautious on IGTV Efforts with Lack of Ads
- Facebook’s News Feed Ads Are Changing
- Instagram is the Fastest-Growing Platform for Magazine Media
METRICS
- Podcast Advertising Revenues Will Surpass $1 Billion by 2021
eMarketer: Podcast Ad Revenues
- 6 Facts About the $26 Billion That U.S. Publishers Earned in 2018
- Audiobook Revenues Soared in 2018
- 10 Essential Media Stats from June 2019
- 2 Out Of 3 Consumers Don’t Trust Information from Social Media, and Social Ad Revenue Growth has Halved
- Magazine Ad Revenue Continues Decline Despite Some Audience Growth
- Digital Ad Spend by Industry 2019
- People Are Reducing Their Facebook Usage: What Marketers Need to Know
- Snap Shares Jump as Returning Users Boost Revenue
PEOPLE
- In Kintzer We Trust
President-CEO Bonnie Kintzer
- GQ’s Will Welch: Media Needs to Go Niche to Stand Out
- Keith Grossman Joins TIME as President
- Angelina Jolie Joins TIME as Contributing Editor
- Ousted Editor of W Magazine Sues Condé Nast for Contract Violations
- Hearst Names Leslie Picard Associate Publisher-co-CRO for 3 Women’s Magazines
- A Q&A with Kate Hathaway Weeks on the Steps She Took to Turn the Regional Magazine into a National Media Company.
- Q&A: Adobe’s Nicole Miñoza Talks Emojis
Read more about people in media in our separate article More Staff Changes at Time, The Atlantic, Hearst, and more…
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Posted by: Monica Murphy
