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Unlike previous years, when top magazines such as the New Yorker swept the American Society of Magazine Editors’ National Magazine Awards, no publication won more than two prizes this year, AdAge writes. Two awards were awarded to Time magazine (one for general excellence with circulations over 2 million)), Rolling Stone, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Esquire, Harper’s Magazine, New York and The New Yorker.
ESPN The Magazine beat The New Yorker, Vogue, Martha Stewart Living and Fortune for general excellence among titles with circulations between 1 and 2 million. Other general excellence awards went to: Harper’s, for circulations between 100,000 and 250,000; Esquire, in the 500,000 to 1 million range; and The Virginia Quarterly Review (under 100,000 circulation). The Virginia Quarterly Review also won for fiction.
The awards were presented during an evening ceremony last night before about 1,000 attendees in black tie, a first for the event, as previous ceremonies took place during luncheons.
A complete list of winners can be viewed here.
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
