The move complements Hachette’s French parent Lagardère Active’s recent expansion into luxury media

Response to a growing demands from advertisers and magazine industry for better measures of the medium’s accountability,

America-focused Poder Magazine and Hispanic Enterprise, which is solely distributed in the U.S. will become one book

Banking on New York City's resiliency despite the economic downturn, Modern Luxury Media is going ahead with its planned September launch in the Big Apple while also growing its digital footprint there.

For the third time in recent years, Rolling Stone is testing a smaller, glossier version of the iconic, oversized music magazine.

The speculation has been rampant for some time now that The Wall Street Journal would pare down some of its copyediting functions. Sure enough, Robert Thomson, editor of the Journal made the announcement in a memo to staff today (July 16).

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will cut its workforce by 8 percent, some 189 jobs, and eliminate its "geographically targeted news sections" as part of a cost-cutting plan the paper announced Wednesday.

Greg Osberg, longtime publisher of Newsweek, and former CNET exec, announced he is resigning from Newsweek. He will leave the company in the early fall.

Nancy Telliho will step up to president of Newsweek Inc.’s Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel from publisher, filling the shoes of Budget Travel CEO Harold Shain, who is retiring at the end of the year. Her new job takes effect Aug. 1.

In its second recent top editor change, Bauer Publishing Group has elevated Tina Donvito to run Twist, one its teen-centric celebrity titles. Donvito started at Bauer in 2005 as deputy editor of M and most recently was Twist’s executive editor.
 

Ann Marie Lipinski, editor of the Chicago Tribune, has resigned, she revealed in a memo to staff July 14.

Los Angeles Times Publisher David Hiller resigned Monday (July 14), just hours after the editor of the flagship Chicago Tribune, Ann Marie Lipinski, announced she was quitting.

Glam Media, the fast-growing online publishing network, has launched a new way to connect advertisers with its female audience with the rollout of Glam Today, a free, daily e-newsletter.
 

Once again, Tom Beusse, president and CEO of Westwood One, turned to his publishing roots for his no. 2, naming Steven Kalin the radio network's new executive vp and chief operating officer. Kalin comes to the radio business from Rodale, where he served as COO and was a member of the board.

From increasing demand for editorial credits and ads disguised as editorial content to even calls for a presence on the cover, advertisers are ratcheting up their pressure on magazines for treatments that blur church-state lines, according to editors, publishers and media buyers.

This is the Facts & Figures page updated for July 14, 2008. Also, read Lucia Moses' analysis of the Women's Health/Fitness and Enthusiast (Boating) categories.

In a bid to expand its U.S. footprint, British publisher Guardian News & Media acquired ContentNext Media, the online media hub best known for its flagship paidContent.org.

Daily Telegram in Superior announced Thursday it would move to a Web-based reporting approach, while offering a print product just two days per week

Magazine ad page and revenue declines have worsened as the year has progressed as the continued economic downturn has led marketers to cut spending, particularly in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics categories.

Erik Torkells, who resigned as editor of Newsweek Inc.’s Budget Travel, might make his next trip to an online job.

Meredith Corp., which reshuffled the deck on the business side two months ago, is now rocking the boat on the editorial side.

Hearst Magazines has become the latest publisher to jump into the online food space, joining with longtime syndication partner MSN to create a food site, Delish.com.

Condé Nast is folding the long-struggling Golf for Women, sources at the company confirmed. The word comes as the luxury lifestyle title loses its editor of six years, Susan Reed, to Hearst Magazines, where she just was named editor of O, The Oprah Magazine.

"I can assure you that thousands of McClatchy employees, like me, will take some time to grieve the loss of colleagues being laid off and to curse the conditions that led to it."

The Wall Street Journal’s Web site has enjoyed significant traffic growth of late, while still managing to keep its vaunted—and some predicted, doomed--subscription model intact.

Meredith Corp. named ex-Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia exec Lauren Stanich to a new position aimed at growing More, its monthly aimed at age 40-plus women; and niche shelter title ReadyMade.

With Hearst Magazines’ announcement that it would close three-year-old Quick & Simple, the once-burgeoning low-cost magazine genre is suffering its latest blow.

Iconic magazine editor Clay Felker died today at his home in Manhattan after a lengthy struggle with cancer. He was 82.

With the double whammy of $4 gas prices and magazine wholesaler-led distribution cuts, magazines are facing steeper-than-usual single-copy sales declines in the first half of 2008.

Bonnier Corp.’s ski titles are making steep circulation cuts, in the latest instance of the magazine industry reevaluating its circ model in the face of high circulation acquisition and growing paper and delivery costs.