In the two years that CNN’s iReport has been around, it has helped citizen reporting become a web sensation. So far this year, everyday-joes have posted 175,000 videos and photos to iReport and it has seen a 176% increase in submissions since this time last year. iReport and other citizen journalism websites, like FNC’s UReport [...]
Esquire has turned out lots of eye-catching, icononic covers during its 75-year run to date, and now Editor-in-chief David Granger (photo at L.) hopes to create another one. The September issue will feature battery-powered, flashing text, provided by E Ink, that says, “the 21st Century Begins Now.” The devices are being produced in China, inserted into the magazines in Mexico, [...]
Ziff Davis Media will begin outsourcing circulation for its two print titles, PC Magazine and Electronic Gaming Monthly, to consultant Charles Mast starting immediately. Ziff Davis made this announcement only a few days after IDG announced that they too would outsource circulation for PC World, Macworld and GamePro to Miami and New York-based circ services [...]
F+W Publications has changed its name to F+W Media as a way to better reflect their growing portfolio of digital products. CEO David Nussbaum, says, “The word ‘publications’ no longer adequately describes who we are as a company (and) substituting the word ‘media’ better reflects F+W’s mission to deliver content across all platforms—including print and [...]
Daniel Lyons, the former Forbes magazine journalist and writer of the blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, made his final blog entry on Wednesday. Lyons stated that he had grown tired of his fictional creation, but more importantly did not want to be making fun of a real person whose health is in jeopardy. [...]
WSJ.com has enjoyed a 94% increase in online traffic compared to June 2007, according to the company’s internal traffic numbers. The site had 16.2 million unique users this June, with total page views up 45% to 150 million. MediaWeek (June 2, 2008)
A new a program called MagCloud, will allow users to upload pages in PDF format and then sit back and watch MagCloud “publish” it. The print-on-demand service program will do everything from printing and mailing to subscription management. MagCloud is still in its beta form and is being developed by Derek Powazek and HP [...]
Instead of publishers sending out content to their audiences, audiences are now sending content to each other via Facebook, Digg, and other networking site according to Frank Cutitta, the general manager of IDG Connect. At the 2008 Circulation Management Conference, Cutitta spoke about how he helped form IDG Connect, a centralized database and lead-generation vehicle, [...]
IDG’s PC World is trying something that no other technology site has ever done: directly linking from its own reviews to those from competitive sites. CEO Mike Kisseberth says that even though they “believe we have the best technology product reviews available, we understand and acknowledge that buyers want to evaluate the opinions of multiple [...]
Dennis Publishing has plans to launch a digital-only motoring title, iMotor, on July 17, the work result of its new product development team. The company launched digital men’s magazine Monkey in 2006 and digital gagdet magazine Gizmo in February of this year. Bruce Sandell, the team’s managing director said “The creative interactive advertising opportunities this [...]