Emap, publisher of Grazia, FHM, WGSN and Arena, has purchased a 40.1 percent stake in Next Gen Publishing Ltd., a Mumbai-based magazine publisher, in order to expand its presence to India, writes WWD.
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Ellen J. Pollock, deputy Page 1 editor for the Wall Street Journal, is leaving that publication after 18 years to join BusinessWeek as executive editor.
CBS News has announced its plans for covering the 2008 presidential campaigns, with extensive TV, web and radio coverage.
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Eight of 10 consumers (79.6 percent) say they have made a purchase in the previous 12 months in response to direct marketing, according to the “Consumers’ Response to Direct Marketing: An 8 Part Series” study, writes MarketingCharts (via Circulation Management (CM) magazine).
Facebook.com grew to 26.6 million unique visitors in the U.S. in May 2007, marking an 89 percent increase compared with May 2006, according to a comScore study on visits to the social-networking site, writes MarketingCharts.
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Nielsen has decided to change the way it measures web rankings, throwing out page views in favor of total time spent and sessions for all visitors as the dominant way of determining rank.
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Business magazine revenues remain flat, while other platforms such as face-to-face and e-media continue to flourish, according to the Business Information Network (BIN) report through April, reports American Business Media (via MarketingCharts).
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Facebook: a place for Googlers Robert Young over at Publishing 2.0 highlights current speculation that Google and Facebook may be getting closer than online acquaintances should, writes MarketingVox.
Microsoft has gotten the all-clear from the FTC to proceed with its purchase of aQuantive, reports the Associated Press (via MarketingVox).
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Staffers at Conde Nast’s Jane magazine were told this morning that the magazine is folding, writes Fishbowl NY.
NBC News has partnered with Channel One - a network that brings a 12-minute newscast to 11,000 schools nationwide - to deliver specially created content to middle and high school students.
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Bottom of the list Barnes & Noble, Hallmark, and Bath & Body Works were at the top of the list of retailers rated by consumers in a new report by Carlson Marketing and the Peppers & Roger Group.
Dow Jones has issued a statement disagreeing with reports that a deal has been agreed to between Dow Jones and Rupert Murdochs’s News Corp. and that all that remained was for the Bancroft family to sign off on the agreement.
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