‘U.S. News & World Report’ Facing Editorial, Business Cuts
U.S. News & World Report, the struggling No. 3 newsweekly, is axing both editorial and business staffers.
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U.S. News & World Report, the struggling No. 3 newsweekly, is axing both editorial and business staffers.
The U.K.’s advertising watchdog is up to its old tricks.
A Lexus magazine ad campaign for the Lexus RX 400h has been banned by Ofcom, MediaGuardian reports (via Environmental Leader). The ad headline read: “High performance. Low emissions. Zero guilt.”
A new report from Media-Screen finds that broadband users spend an average of 48 percent of their free time online in a typical weekday, reports the Center for Media Research (via MarketingVOX). The percentage measures out to about one hour and 40 minutes.
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Brian Tierney, owner and publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News since he and a group of local businessmen bought the papers from McClatchy, will no longer be publisher of the Daily News.
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Havas’s MPG has beat out MindShare, MEC Interaction, Carat and Horizon Media in a review for Sears Holdings’ $740 million media account.
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Sirius is launching At Martha’s Table, a new live one-on-one interview series on Martha Stewart Living Radio. The series features Martha Stewart conducting in-depth conversations with chefs.
The show will air live on Wednesdays, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. ET on Martha Stewart Living Radio, channel 112.
The San Francisco Chronicle expects to cut about 80 editorial positions via voluntary buyouts, in the hopes of eliminating the need for involuntary layoffs.
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Wal-Mart is the corporation most linked with blog posts that mention sustainability, according to Nielsen BuzzMetrics Sustainability Monitor. Wal-Mart was mentioned in 1.77 percent of the 356,403 messages about sustainability measured between 3/15/06 and 3/15/07.
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Though the networks have said they’re ready to deal, and media reports have it that buyers and sellers have mostly agreed to use a combination of commercial ratings and live-plus-three-day ratings, upfront negotiations are slow getting started.
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Spam remains the bane of the internet, but U.S. email users are apparently less bothered by it even as they report the highest volume of spam ever - perhaps because they have grown more sophisticated in dealing with it - according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, MarketingCharts reports.
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Cox Radio has signed a five-year renewal contract with Arbitron for ratings and related services in Cox’s 18 markets, Arbitron announced.
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