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NEWS
- InDesign 2020 is Here!
Adobe MAX 2019: Accelerating Your Creativity
- The Boomers’ Media Behemoth
- Boston Globe Teams Up with College Students to Expand Local News Coverage
- After Chasing Scale, Hearst Is Doubling Down on Influence
- What to Make of Media’s New Job Titles
- Will Condé Nast As We Know It Exist in a Decade?
- Hearst Magazines Touts Experiential and Video Offerings to Advertisers
- Why Quad/Graphics Stock Crashed Today
- ‘Google’s Gonna Google’: Publishers Say a Google Search Change Is Denting Their Coupon Revenues
- Harvard Business Review Wins Magazine of the Year at the Eddie & Ozzie Awards Gala
- Why New Restrictions on Library E-Book Access Are Generating Controversy
- Willamette Falls Paper Company Trials First Run of Non-wood Paper
- Hearst Auto Group Develops Curated Subscription Box, ‘R&T Crew’ Magazine for Children
- Meredith Has New Recipe for Southern Living: Turning a Magazine into a TV Show
- As Gannett Merger Nears Completion, Union Claims ‘Journalism Will Suffer’ Under Deal
- Introducing a New Look for The Atlantic
- The Atlantic Is Launching A Subscriber-Only App
- As Apple Stakes Out an Aggressive Pro-Privacy Stance, Google Occupies Middle Ground
- Instagram Adds New Features for Publishers. Watch out TikTok.
TRENDS
Snapchat is Making Money for Publishers
- After Sluggish Starts, More Publishers Are Finding Snapchat a Moneymaker
- Audiobooks Are Officially the Trendsetters in Publishing Industry
- How Publishers Are Driving Deeper Engagement
- The Financial Times Is Rolling Out Subscriber-Only Podcasts
- What Niche Publishers Know That Mass Media Overlooks
- Snapchat Bounces Back: How Are Brands Marketing on The Platform?
- The Rundown: Publishers Scramble to Control Audience Data
- Publishers See Mobile Traffic Spikes from Google Discover
- Meredith’s Vision for the Future Includes Growth in Print Advertising, Newsstand Revenue
- “The Impact Will Be Immense”: How AI Is Reshaping the Publishing Industry
- How Delish Nearly Doubled Its Site Traffic by Focusing on Search
- After an Early Rush to Amazon Alexa, Publishers Are Less Enthusiastic
- Instagram Will Test Hiding ‘Likes’ on Some U.S. Accounts Starting This Week
- How People and Entertainment Weekly Grow Audiences with Video
METRICS
Q3 Report of Pinterest’s Monthly Active Users
- Pinterest Reports 322 Million Global Monthly Active Users at the End of Q3
- Boomers Are Least Likely to Want to Interact with Brands on Social Media
- Digiday Research: 54% Of Marketers Say They Allocated More Ad Money to Instagram This Year
- With Insta Stories Growing 15x Faster Than Feed-Based Sharing, Instagram Is a Favourite For Influencer Campaigns
- Digiday Research: Publisher Satisfaction with Platforms Plummets In 2019
- Facebook-Google Duopoly Won’t Crack This Year
- Amazon Approaches $10 Billion in US Net Digital Ad Revenues This Year
- 10 Essential Media Stats from October 2019
- Local U.S. Advertising to Rise 6% In 2020, With Digital Media Higher, Traditional Media Flat
- 208% Growth in Digital News Subscribers Over Five Years: Readers Are “More Willing to Pay for Content,” Reports WAN-IFRA
PEOPLE
P.J. Browning, E&P Publisher of the Year
- 2019 E&P Publisher of the Year P.J. Browning, Post and Courier
- What’s Left of Condé Nast
- Hearst Magazines’ Zuri Rice on How to Get 1 Billion Video Views A Month
- Meredith Corp’s Alysia Borsa on Effects of GDPR and CCPA on Publishing
- The Balancing Act Facing the Next Guardian CEO
- Legendary Art Director Roger Black Discusses How a Good Design Can Help Newspapers Build Their Identity
- Media Execs Talk New Revenue and Building on Audiences at the Folio: Show
- Folio: Show Speakers Highlight Brand Power on Day One
- Meredith Corp To Invest in ‘Health’ Print Edition, Announces New Hires
- How Esquire Is Trying A ‘Micro-Membership’ Model Around Charles Pierce
- When Less is Actually More: Behind Bauer Media’s Print Success
- Hearst Magazines Staffers Unionizing Across Two Dozen Publications, Forming Giant for Writers Guild of America
- Financial Times Names First Woman as Top Editor in Its 131 Years
- 6 Takeaways for Digital Editors from the Folio: Show
- Shareholders of USA TODAY Owner Gannett and New Media Investment Group Approve Merger
Read more about people in media in our separate article More Staff Changes at Forbes, Condé Nast, TIME, and more…
Images: Axios, Digiday, Adweek, Grace Beahm Alford/Post and Courier
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