| Innovative Editor of New York Magazine | Los Angeles Times July 02, 2008 | Clay Felker, the innovative founding editor of New York magazine who was widely considered one of the great post-World War II magazine editors in the U.S. and a key figure in the emergence of New Journalism in the 1960s, died Tuesday.
Felker, who had been married to bestselling author Gail Sheehy since 1984, died at his home in Manhattan after a long battle with throat cancer, said a spokeswoman for New York magazine.
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| Time Inc.'s Maghound Set to Debut in September | | FolioJune 27, 2008 | After almost four years of continuous development and testing, Maghound.com, Time Inc.'s Netflix-like service for magazines, is finally set to launch this September, Dave Ventresca, president of Maghound Enterprises, Inc., told attendees of the 2008 Circulation Management Conference in Chicago Tuesday.
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| PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS | | Associated Press/AP OnlineJune 26, 2008 | "Fearless Fourteen" by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's Press)(F-H)
"Sail" by James Patterson and Howard Roughan, (Little, Brown) (F-H)
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| | US News Media releases content for Amazon Kindle | | .June 18, 2008 | U.S. News Media Group, which publishes U.S. News & World Report magazine, said Tuesday that it has made the magazine's content available for users of Amazon's wireless e-reader device, Kindle.
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| Music Magazine Cues Up Rival for 'American Idol' | | Los Angeles Business JournalMay 26, 2008 | TAKING a page from "American Idol," Billboard magazine is launching a talent show, "Billboard Next."
America's oldest music industry publication has teamed with Los Angeles-based Associated Talent Management to package the TV show and Fluid Music Inc. to use the Internet and mobile devices to engage viewers.
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| | Text Messaging Makes Magazine Ads Interactive | | Advertising AgeJune 09, 2008 | The push to make magazine pages more interactive is building mass and, dare we say it, even real momentum as major publishers and advertisers adopt a pair of technologies centered on the cellphone.
If magazine publishers like the results, they should remember to thank New York ad agency Anomaly, which started developing ShopText back in 2005.
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| | Magazines Find Surprise Stash of New Readers | | Advertising AgeJune 09, 2008 | Marketers are buying fewer ad pages in magazines this year amid a lot of economic worries and ever-proliferating alternatives, but magazine readers are not going anywhere.
If anything, magazine audiences are getting bigger and often younger too, according to a Mediaedge:cia analysis of last month's benchmark spring MRI research report.
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| Times' Magazine Falls Victim to Cuts | | Los Angeles TimesJune 11, 2008 | The Los Angeles Times editorial staff will stop producing its money-losing monthly magazine after the July issue, Editor Russ Stanton said Tuesday.
The paper's business side was finalizing plans for a new incarnation of the magazine under the direction of the Los Angeles Times Media Group, according to Stanton and Publisher David Hiller.
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| Media & Marketing: U.S. News Will Cut Back To Biweekly Publication | | The Wall Street JournalJune 10, 2008 | U.S. News & World Report will switch to biweekly publication next year, the most radical step by a newsweekly to cope with the migration of readers and advertisers online.
U.S. News, which long has lagged behind Time and Newsweek magazines in the newsweekly category, said it will publish every other week beginning next year, except when big news events dictate special issues.
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| BusinessWeek kills Chicago edition | | .June 09, 2008 | BW Chicago, BusinessWeekâ??s first city-focused publication, is no more.
is shutting down the monthly magazine, making the June issue its last.
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| | Meredith Cuts 60 Jobs | | FolioJune 06, 2008 | Meredith Corporation has become the latest magazine publisher to reduce its workforce, today cutting 60 jobs and opting not to fill 60 open positions.
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| New HarperCollins Chief Quashes Talk of a Sale | | The Wall Street JournalJune 06, 2008 | Brian Murray, named late Wednesday to succeed Jane Friedman as chief executive of News Corp.'s HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, quickly moved to end speculation that the publisher of such authors as Michael Crichton and Barbara Kingsolver will be put up for sale.
Speculation about the future of HarperCollins began to circulate in publishing circles as soon as it was learned that Ms. Friedman was leaving her post.
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| | Japanese Magazines Offer Carbon Credits With Subscriptions. | | AsiaPulse NewsJune 05, 2008 | TOKYO, June 5 Asia Pulse - An increasing number of Japanese magazine publishers are introducing programs that link subscriptions to carbon dioxide emissions credits.
Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. will launch a similar program for its Aera weekly magazine the same month.
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