The other shoe is about to drop at BusinessWeek. Shortly after taking over the magazine, news giant Bloomberg pruned its staff by a reported 30% and made it known that more downsizing would come sometime before May. Sources say that round will begin Thursday.
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BusinessWeek Prepares for Round Two of Layoffs originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:06:00.
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Dow Jones and Co., a unit of News Corp., announced Tuesday that it is buying out Hearst's remaining 50% stake in SmartMoney, making Dow Jones the sole owner of the personal finance magazine.
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Dow Jones Buys Other Half of SmartMoney from Hearst originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:00:00.
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A San Francisco businessman is staging National Magazine Day on Saturday. It's hard to argue with the basic idea -- lots of people like a good magazine -- but are people really going to take time out to review their stacks of unread periodicals?
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Attack the Stack? The Strange Message of Magazine Day originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:59:00.
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The good news, for magazine publishers, is that the earthward plummet in newsstand sales has finally started to moderate. The bad news is that sales are still falling at a vertigo-inducing rate -- just not quite so rapidly as they were a few months ago.
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Magazines' Newsstand Sales Keep Plummeting originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:52:00.
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Magazines have a tough time getting race right, but usually they manage to do a better job than
Vanity Fair did in
its March issue. The magazine, which is owned by glossy publishing house Conde Nast, recently delivered its annual
Hollywood issue -- to howls of protest from around the blogosphere and the analog world.
The problem: Of the nine supposedly up-and-coming starlets featured on the fold-out cover, not one is African-American, Asian or Hispanic. The average skin tone on display is as white as the new-fallen snow.
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Vanity Fair's Young Hollywood Whitewash originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:00:00.
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