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NEWS
Kid-focused edition of The Week
- To Grow Revenue and Engage New Readers, Magazines Think of the Children
- ‘Sports Illustrated’ Launches Revamped Print Edition, Partners with ‘The Hockey News’
- Platforms Offer Olive Branches with Subscription Initiatives and News Payments to Tempt Publishers Back
- Enhanced Digital Extensions and Luxury Collectibles: What’s Old is New Again in These Recent Magazine Launches
- Rolling Stone Tunes into Music Industry Pros with Latest Product Launch
- Hearst Autos Launches Luxe Magazine ‘R&T’ as Companion to ‘Road & Track’
- ‘The Atlantic’ Relaunches Weekly Podcast as ‘The Ticket’
- Meredith Claims “Strongest Competitive Position In History” After Time Inc. Merger
- Publishers Share Their Social Distribution Secrets
- ‘The New Republic’ Redesigns, Erects Metered Paywall
- How Condé Nast Entertainment Plans to Use its Five New Studios to Develop Franchises
- How Time’s Immersive VR Experience is Emblematic of Its Dream to Build a Modern Media Company
- In the Absence of Third-Party Cookies, Publishers are Building Walled Gardens of Their Own
- Magazine Publisher Bonnier Explores Possible Sale of Main Media Unit
- McClatchy Bankruptcy Filing: A Last-Ditch Effort to Save a Newspaper Company
- Twitter Now Lets Users Add New Tweets to Old Tweets
TRENDS
Sample text to readers from People Magazine
- People Magazine’s Newest Engagement Play is Texting Readers Directly
- Industry Insight: The Hardest Part with Digital Subscriptions is Keeping Them
- Condé Nast Sees Value in Google’s Programmatic Guaranteed Program
- Beyond Ad Targeting, The Demise of the Third-Party Cookie Will Hit Key Digital Media Functions
- Publishers: Have No Fear of a Cookieless Future
- Publishers are Growing Audiences by Producing Less Content
- Gen X and Boomers Split Digital and Traditional Media Consumption Evenly
- The Future of AI is in Job Enhancement, Not Replacement
- 5 Steps for Publishers to Integrate Voice into the UX
- 7 Tips for Publishers to Build Quality Experiences
- Why the Podcast Gold Rush is Slowing Down for Some Publishers
- How Brands are Using Apple, Google, Facebook and Texting to Chat Up Consumers
- Top 10 Marketing Trends to Watch for in 2020
- To Drive Daily Habits and Customer Retention, Publishers Turn to Puzzles
- No, The Podcast ‘Gold Rush’ Isn’t Over. Podcasting’s Golden Age is Just Beginning
METRICS
Marketing Companies Using LinkedIn
- By 2021, More Than Half of Companies Will Use LinkedIn for Marketing
- How Ecommerce is Becoming a Key Part of Publishers’ Emerging Revenue Strategies
- Publishers Bullish on Talent, Tech and Growth in 2020
- 90% of Gen Z Willing to Pay for Content, and Other Key Insights from the Vice Survey
- National Newspapers Thrive While Local Outlets Struggle to Survive
- 5 Digital Subscription Trends for Publishers, In Charts
- Report: ‘People’ Claimed Largest Magazine Audience in Q4 2019
- The New York Times Tops 5 Million Subscriptions as Ads Decline
- Twitter Reaches 152 Million Monetizable Daily Active Users, Tops $1 Billion in Q4 Revenue
- Instagram’s $20 Billion Ad Revenue Isn’t Exactly a Shock to Marketers
- “A Watershed Moment for the Business”: Instagram Sees 20x More Interactions Than Facebook, and a Bigger Audience
- More Americans Went to the Library than the Movies Last Year… Really
PEOPLE
Meghan Markle’s British Vogue Issue
- Meghan Markle’s British Vogue Issue is the ‘Fastest-Selling’ in the Magazine’s History
- Meredith Sees a Future for New Magazines Particularly Ones Tied to a Celebrity
- Can Magazine Publishers Really Run Global Operations?
- On Launching a Print Title for Kids: Insights from The Week
- Warren Buffett Exits Newspaper Industry
- The Coolest Couple on Instagram have a Plan to Save Print Media
- Easyriders Biker Magazine Bought, Relaunched by Pepper Foster
- Hearst Magazine President Troy Young Named Chairman, IAB Board of Directors
- Hearst Taps New Woman’s Day Editor as Harper’s Bazaar Search Drags On
- The Smartest Investor Ever Exits Newspapers
- The Chaos at Condé Nast
- Revolutionary? A Hit? A Miss? In any Case, Tony Haile’s Scroll has Launched at Last
Read more about people in media in our separate article More Staff Changes at MotorTrend, Marie Claire, Forbes, and more…
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Posted by: Monica Murphy
