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VNU sells off magazines Dutch media research and trade publishing company VNU has
sold off its European magazines division - which includes
eight UK titles - to venture capital specialist 3i as it
restructures to focus on media research with companies such
as Neilsen. The UK titles being sold are: Accountancy
Age, ComputerActive, CRN, Computing, Financial Director,
Information World Review, IT Week and Personal
Computer World.
Globally, VNU plans to shed 4,000 jobs. 3i was one of the first venture capital
groups in the UK (it originally stood for Investors in Industry), with media
investments that go back to Redwood in the mid-1980s (when Redwood launched Venture,
a magazine for venture capitalists under editor Tony Hilton; it was later sold
to Northern & Shell but did not last long). |
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Computer World - Britain's oldest micro magazine
- has been sold by VNU to 3i
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FHM closes in US December 14. Emap is to close men's monthly FHM in
the US. Although the title has been selling more than a million
copies a month - about half of Maxim's sales -
it has been unable to catch the Dennis title, especially
in advertising revenue, which is the prime source of income
in the US. The website,
which serves about 30 international copies of the magazine,
will continue. The closure of its best-known title in the
US marks the end of an disastrous foray across the Atlantic,
which saw Emap lose £600m in 2001.
The announcement also compounds a bad
year for the company, which has been forced to sell off its
French arm and close several titles in the UK, including
iconic pop title Smash
Hits
and Sneak, while its news weekly
launch for women, First, has
not been selling well and Bliss and Period
Living have
been sold off. The company stresses investment in growth
sectors but the level of contraction could see it become
a takeover target, with the buyer cherry-picking from
its consumer, trade and radio divisions, and selling the
rest on. Impatient shareholders might force the company to
take the axe to its trade division, which does not sit so
well with a radio/consumer focus. |
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January 2007 cover of FHM in
the US - catch it while you can. The March issue will
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Future closes J-Tuner and other titlesDecember 7. Future has closed five more titles, bringing the total number of disposals this year to 38, 16 of which were puzzle magazines bought from Highbury. The losses are:
The first three were launched by Future. The magazines were
among 10 under review since last month. Future has relaunched
Fast Car, which it bought from Highbury. |
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Bliss to go to Panini December 7. The Guardian
has reported that Emap's teen magazine Bliss is
to be sold to Panini. The title's first issue was June 1995
and in 2002 it was relaunched in an A5 format. In March, Panini
bought Mizz from IPC. Both
titles have seen a substantial fall in sales over the past year,
which has been put down to competition for teenagers' money
from other media and the switch to web and mobile-phone based
products. |
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Press Gazette saved December 5 |
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New Woman relaunch as NW December. Emap Elan London. £2.80; 206pp (plus 28-page
Style Stalker). Ed: Helen Johnston |
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Magforum's A-Z of men's magazines November16 |
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Monkey digital men's magazine November. Dennis, London. Free (digital) |
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Independent 'mirror' advert October 27. Independent Newspapers. Pages 24-25 |
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Play Music November. Genoa Bay Publishing, Borough Green, Kent. £3.50
(with CD); 212pp. Ed: Barney Jameson |
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Digital Living Autumn. EMAP Active, Peterborough. £3.99; 148pp. Ed:
Bruce Black |
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BusinessWeek shrugs off Portfolio threat18 October. Stephen Adler, editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek,
the weekly business magazine, has shrugged off the threat from
Condé Nast’s Portfolio, a business monthly,
to be launched in the US on 24 April 2007 (May cover date).
He told the Financial Times: “Portfolio is
doing something entirely different, it will be a high-quality
feature publication that feels more like Vanity Fair.”
“BusinessWeek defines itself as timely, concise
and useful – I don’t think that is how Portfolio
would describe itself.” However, the article by Aline
van Duyn (‘BusinessWeek looks to the web as battle
for readers intensifies’) points out that the two ‘will
be vying for a similar pool of advertisers’. The McGraw
Hill title sells an average 930,722 copies a week, while the
newcomer will guarantee advertisers a 300,000 rate
base. Adler’s strategy has been to save money by closing
the European and Asian editions of the magazine and investing
in the website, which is now customised for these regions. Editor-in-chief
on Portfolio is Joanne Lipman. In the UK, Condé
Nast paired up with the Financial Times to run the
monthly Business magazine in 1985. The publisher was
Kevin Kelly, who held a 20% stake, the rest split between the
two companies. The magazine had high production values but was
unable to reach profit and closed as advertising sales fell
with the advent of the recession in 1991. Sales were 50,000
copies but it was estimated to have lost a total of £5m.
The last cover date was July 1991. |
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The Business 14 October dateline (launched 12 October). The Business,
The Business Publishing Ltd (Press Holdings), London. £2.25;
72pp. Ed: Ian Watson; publisher: Andrew Neil
The title was founded by Tom Rubython as the broadsheet Sunday
Business in 1996 as a challenger to the Financial Times
and was printed on similar pink paper. The paper was taken
over by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay's Press Holdings
in 1998 (they now also control the Daily Telegraph).
It went through several relaunches, most obviously in January
2002 when it changed its name from Sunday Business,
fired most of its journalists - production was taken on by the
Press Association - and cut its cover price from £1 to
50p. The Business was reported to be losing £3m
a year and will share offices and other overheads with weekly
The Spectator and arts magazine Apollo. Andrew
Neil also tried to turn The European into a magazine
for the Barclays. |
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The London Paper and K9 go digital 10 October. The London Paper is now available as
a digital edition using technology from Exact Editions. It is
joined by 'celebrity dog magazine' K9. |
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NME launches Irish edition 10 October. IPC Media has distributed a free sampler for an
Irish edition of NME to go on sale on October 18. The
company says it marks the first international version of the
title, which claims to be the biggest-selling weekly in the
world. The launch is linked to the opening of Club NME Dublin,
a regular event for new Irish music and part of a programme
to open 17 clubs in the UK and Ireland. |
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Autumn: season of redesigns IPC Media has unveiled several redesigned magazines this month,
including Marie Claire, Decanter, TV and Satellite
Week, and Ideal Home. Emap has also set in place
a strategy to make its titles, including Q, Car and
FHM, more leisurely, luxury products. |
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In the Know29 August. H. Bauer, London. 50p (£1); 60pp. Ed: Keith
Kendrick • features on topical issues; |
In
the Know - Bauer's first launch for women in 11 years
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Internet Shoppers' Guide to Home August, Seek Directory Ltd, Bromley, Kent. £2.50; 324pp
(145mm square; perfect bound; 250gsm cover; 70gsm text) |
Sixth in a series of advertising-driven
web guides | |
London Lite strikes in freesheet war 25 August (Friday). Associated Newspapers' is to distribute
thousands of copies of its new free daily paper London Lite
in the capital at lunchtime today. The move was described
as a 'test run' with no paid advertising ahead of the 'full-blown
launch' next Wednesday. Yesterday, News International pulled
forward the launch of its free newspaper, The London Paper,
to Monday September 4. The battle looks set to repeat that seen
in 1987 when Robert Maxwell tried to launch a paid-for paper,
London Daily News, against Associated’s Evening
Standard. Then, Associated revived the London Evening
News – which it had closed in 1980- at a cut price
to spoil the Maxwell launch. The LDN closed a year
later. |
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Bauer reveals In the Know 22 August. H Bauer, London. Free sample (£1); 60pp.
Launch ed: Keith Kendrick. |
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Magicalia buys Encanta 22 August. Online publisher Magicalia has bought Encanta Media,
the company formed from nine specialist interest magazines that
were sold off when Highbury House collapsed.
The titles, including Model Boats, Military Modelling
and Popular Patchwork, were originally bought by Endless,
a company buyout specialist. |
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Men's sales tumble; women's mixedThe latest audited sales figures (for Jan-Jun 2006) show men's magazines as the problem sector for publishers. Seven of the top 10 titles saw a fall in sales against the same period last year. Sector leader FHM lost a quarter of its sales - almost 140,000 copies - as buyers turned away in droves. No wonder the title was relaunched this month to try to differentiate it from the weeklies. (Mediatel summary table). However, magazine sales were up overall by 1% (12.3 million copies) - or 3.5% if free magazines are included. News from the women's sector was better, with growth driven by the weeklies. Reveal, Star and New! all saw sales grow by more than a fifth and newcomers Love It! (405,441), Real People (318,105) and Full House (191,987) all helped the sector. IPC's once-great trio Woman, Woman's Own and Woman's Weekly all declined further by 8-14%. Bestseller Take a Break saw a 10% drop to 1,082,051 but is still well ahead of he rest of the pack, now led by 10% riser Closer at 590,211 (women's weeklies). The monthlies had less of a rosy story to tell, though Easy Living continues to progress, up 17% to just beat the 200,000 barrier - with more than a quarter of sales coming from subscriptions (compared with a consumer magazine average of about 12%). Eve and Spirit & Destiny also showed healthy rises. Sector leader Glamour fell back again to 586,056. Real and Essentials are the problem cases, both dropping almost 30% (women's monthlies). In the motoring sector, the figures show the reason behind
this month's relaunch of Car by Emap - its period-on-period
sales have fallen from 107,662 to 78,831 copies - 27% - since
2003 while topseller Top Gear and What Car have
risen (car
magazines). Things could be worse though - Maxpower
has fallen through the floor in the same period, from 239,668
to 92,140. |
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New masthead for Real 4-18 August. Essential Publishing, Colchester. £1; 100pp.
Ed dir: Hayley Chilver; ed: Sally Narraway. |
 You magazine with Angelina Jolie on the cover from March |
Sneak, Family Circle and Test Drive close; You withdrawnIt's a good week for people who collect the last issues of magazines. Three of the biggest publishers have acted to cut their losses ahead of this week's official sales figures (due on Thursday 17 August). Emap has suspended Sneak; December's issue of Family Circle will be the last from IPC; and Dennis has sold Test Drive to Haymarket, but it will be merged into What Car? - which Felix Dennis once called a 'fat whale' - after the September issue. Furthermore, The Mail on Sunday has withdrawn its You supplement as a separately sold magazine. Sneak launched in April 2002 as a 'baby Heat' but teenagers are turning to the web and mobile phones for celebrity gossip. Unlike other recent closures in the teen sector, there are no plans to maintain the weekly online. It's been a long fall for Family Circle, which was selling 580,000 copies in 1984, making it the top women's monthly. At 112,597, sales are too low for IPC now. Test Drive has had a troubled time since it appeared
in 1994. The title was relaunched for the September 1995 issue
and the price halved after its ABC sales came in at just 67,190.
It cut the price again in March. Felix Dennis said
of Test Drive: 'This was a brilliant launch with a
cocked-up editorial product which is now a brilliant editorial
product ... What Car has been around a long time ...
When I see a whale ... getting fatter and fatter my immediate
reaction is to reach for my harpoon.' Haymarket’s What
Car, which was relaunched in June, has claimed that in
July more than a million consumers used its website or bought
a copy of the magazine or one of its related guides. |
 Bold moves: Car aims to focus on its strengths in writing and photography (and design); it has thrown out price listings (which lost their edge when the 'Good, Bad, Ugly' selection was dropped and have never matched What Car? anyway); and has adopted a square format (a move too far in my view) |
Car relaunchedSeptember, 2006. Issue 529. Emap, Peterborough. £4.20;
180pp. Ed: Jason Barlow; art dir: Andrew Thomas
Editor Jason Barlow said: ‘The focus of this groundbreaking reinvention is for the magazine to play to its strengths by delivering incisive magazine craft, fearless journalism, acerbic opinion and stunning photography.' The company - which has seen little but bad news in the past
year - says the changes highlight its 'commitment to investing
in its leading brands to give them a multi-platform presence
and deliver complimentary [sic] consumer experiences'. |
 Reality TV Now: joins website as Now spin-off |
IPC extends Now spin-offs Reality TV Now. Summer 2006. IPC Connect, London. £2.25,
100pp. Ed: Jeremy Mark Several big publishers are reacting to the threat of the web
by launching online and have created senior positions to exploit
digital positions. Emap recently set up a dieting
and fitness website based around Closer. |
 Teen People: is closure a sign of teenagers' changing interests? |
Teen sector in distressIt's proving to be a hard year for publishers of teen magazines in the US and UK. The latest (July 27) is that Time Inc's Teen People has been suspended; the September issue will be the last. This follows Emap's Smash Hits in the UK and Hachette Filipacchi's Elle Girl in the US so far this year. Elle Girl in the UK closed in autumn 2005. However, in each case, the name lives on as a website.
In the UK, Teen Vogue has yet to launch but Cosmo Girl! showed growth in the last sales figures to 173,135, though well behind Bliss (277,165) and Sugar (250,000). These titles were, in turn, seen as killing off established magazines such as J-17 (2004) and 19. Also, HFUK closed B in March. Although teenagers have more money, there are also more distractions, with mobile phones, text messaging and ringtones all fighting for cash. Also, teenagers are teens for much shorter times, graduating to celebrity weeklies or the glossy monthlies much earlier. So a trend for these titles has been to move to MySpace; for example, www.sneakmagazine.com takes you to www.myspace.com/sneakmagazine. |
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écurie25écurie25. Contract title by Zero Collective for écurie25.
32pp. Creative dir: Paul Dedman |
 Closer: Emap ruled it the company's most successful launch |
Emap launches Closer web spin-offEmap has launched a dieting and fitness website based around
Closer magazine. The website, Closerdiets
includes a Closerdiets Club, which costs £1.75 a week.
The content will follow the strategy adopted by the weekly magazine
for its healthy eating and weight loss section, which is larded
with celebrities. The site has identified Kate Winslet as having
the perfect celebrity body and tempts readers to 'lose weight
like the stars.' |
 Emap licenses Grazia from Mondadori |
Emap sells French arm to MondadoriMondadori, the Italian publishing group owned by former Italian
prime minister Silvio Berlusconi that owns weekly glossy Grazia,
has bought Emap's French magazine assets. For €545 million
(£372 million) – lower than the £400m analysts
had estimated – Mondadori picks up the third-largest publisher
in France (behind Lagardère and Bertelsmann's Gruner
+ Jahr), which Emap had spent a decade building up. The British
group gave in to pressure from investors to sell the French
publisher in February after it had held back
group profits for two years. This followed a failure to protect
its TV listings guides from launches by Gruner + Jahr. Mondadori’s
share price closed up 3%, while Emap’s fell 1%. |
 Top of the Pops was a rival for Emap's now defunct Smash Hits |
Future of Top of the Pops mag in doubt20 June. News that Top of the Pops, the world's longest
running weekly music show, will end on 30 July casts doubt over
the fortnightly magazine spin-off, launched in 1995. Emap closed
Smash Hits in January after its sales halved in
a year to 92,398. It was a similar story at Top of the Pops;
its last ABC sales figure was 96,576. The BBC closed Match
of the Day magazine after it lost the rights to screen
Premiership football highlights in 2001. A BBC statement declared
the TV brand would live on in various ways, but made no reference
to the magazine. The programme's first broadcast took place
on 1 January 1964. Local versions of Top of the Pops are
produced in several countries as well as the magazine. |
 The BBC's offering for the World Cup |
World Cup 2006 one-off from the BBC26 May (no cover date). BBC Magazines, London. £3.95;
132pp. Ed: Garry Martin |
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BBC developing news weeklyThe BBC is developing a weekly news magazine, according to the Guardian. The contents would be linked to its flagship news programmes Newsnight and Panorama. 'Phoenix' is the codename given to the project, which has since been given a working title of Newsbrief, the report said. Such a launch would be a major undertaking for the BBC. It has a large magazine publishing operation but the culture of a news weekly is very different from monthlies such as Good Food. Also, although Der Spiegel and Focus, L'Express and Newsweek and Time, seem to provide role models, the strength of the weekend papers has held back similar titles in Britain. It may be, though, that the success of the Economist and Dennis's The Week has opened up the market more - and Emap has just launched a lightweight news weekly for women, First. The BBC also has ambitions for its news operations globally, seeing potential for growth, particularly in the US. There have been two significant attempts at launching a British
news weekly in the past 40 years. The first was Topic in
October 1961 from Dome Press (editor Morley Richards) but it
floundered and was taken over by Michael Heseltine's Cornmarket
(the precursor to Haymarket) with Nicholas Tomalin as editor
and Michael Parkinson as deputy. It collapsed by Christmas 1962
- nearly taking down Cornmarket with it - and was folded, rather
incongruously, into men's monthly Town.
Then, in 1979, the multimillionaire businessman Sir James Goldsmith
launched Now! with Cavenham Communications, a subsidiary
of Generale Occidentale, as publisher. Anthony Shrimsley was
editor-in-chief and he recruited a top-notch editorial team;
there were 80 staff in all. The launch was backed by £2.5m
publicity campaign. At first, Now was selling 400,000
copies a week with a target set for average sales of 250,000
in its first 6 months. However, the magazine had a turbulent
time. Events came to a head in January 1981 when Anglo-French
Goldsmith prevented an issue being sold in Europe because it
contained an article critical of French president Giscard d'Estaing.
The journalists were up in arms at this proprietorial interference
and there was even talk of Goldsmith being investigated by a
European Parliament committee. Circulation had fallen to about
125,000 copies. At the end of April 1981, Goldsmith closed the
title with losses estimated at £12m. |
 Suspended after just 4 issues - Burda's Living & Gardens |
Living & Gardens suspendedBurda has suspended its monthly Living & Gardens -
after just four issues. In April, Burda bought Essential Publishing,
which has established homes titles, including the former NatMags
title Your Home in its portfolio. The title was competing
with two other launches this year - 4Homes
from Channel 4 and Inside Out from
the Sunday Times. Also, Hachette relaunched Real
Homes. |
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Ingham steps down at Future6 June. Greg Ingham has stepped down as chief executive at Future and will be replaced by Ms Stevie Spring with effect from 3 July 2005. Ingham has been at Future since 1988, when he joined as a publisher, and has been chief since 1998. He is credited with stabilising the company after it was nearly pulled down by the dotcom bust in 2001, which led to the closure or sale of 25 titles, including Business 2.0, and the ousting of founder Chris Anderson. However, Ingham leaves the company in a state of transition: the computer games market, Future's traditional cash cow, is at a low with the wait for new consoles and the company is still absorbing a mixed bag of titles bought last year. Its interim six-monthly results released this week demonstrate the problem: although turnover was up from £104 million to almost £115m, a big profit shortfall in games titles took the company to a loss of £12m, against a profit of £11m in the same period last year. In a statement, Roger Parry, Future’s chairman, seemed to hint at boardroom discord: 'The board has conducted an extensive review of the group’s strategy and operations and has decided to scale back the ambitious policy of rapid expansion.' Spring has a background in advertising, most recently as chief
executive of Clear Channel UK, which runs advertising hoardings
and other outdoor media and is an arm of a US company. Before
that she worked in advertising agencies. |
 The famous printing library is next door to the Fleet St church and holds items dating back to the 17th century |
St Bride's design conferenceThe St Bride printing library ran an excellent conference on Newspaper Design. The talks would have been of interest to anyone interested in the design of publications, print or online. The organisers were able to attract just about everyone involved in the Guardian's switch to the Berliner format - abandoning David Hillman's radical redesign from 1988 in the process - including editor Alan Rusbridger. Get commentary and details at:
Speakers included:
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 First - a weekly news magazine for women aged 34+ |
Emap launches weekly First17 May. Emap Entertainment, London. £1.20; 100pp. Ed:
Julian Linley |
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New look for WomanMay 23 (dated May 29). IPC Connect, London. 50p (78p); 84pp.
Ed: Jackie Hatton
The 'all new' magazine is being backed by a £3.2 million investment, which includes:
The relaunch follows the promotion of Jackie Hatton from deputy
editor of Woman's Own to editor of Woman in
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 Focus - launched by Gruner + Jahr in 1982; sold to NatMags from when G+J retreated from the UK; bought by Origin in 2001; and now accepted as a BBC title. The BBC tried to launch a competitor - Tomorrow's World - but this was an abject failure and closed within a year in 1998 |
BBC sells Origin division27 April. BBC Magazines has sold Origin Publishing to a management buy-out team led by Origin managing director, Andy Marshall. The BBC will moves its branded titles produced by Origin to a new subsidiary, Bristol Magazines, which will be chaired by Peter Phippen and be based in Bristol. The BBC has cherry-picked the list, keeping its own branded titles, some others (such as Focus) that were owned by Origin and Origin's contract titles. The BBC bought Origin in 2004 but has since been under pressure
to divest itself of titles not related directly to its programmes.
Eve was sold to Haymarket in 2005. So why the BBC is
keeping the contract titles is a bit of a mystery, though the
BBC did control Redwood between 1988-2003, during which time
Redwood launched most of the BBC's big consumer titles.. |
 Oz - infamous underground magazine |
Oz first issue fetches £36027 April. A copy of the February 1967 first issue of underground
magazine Oz has sold for £360 (plus £4
postage) on eBay. There were 17 bids that took the bidding up
from a starting price of £50. The first version of the
satirical magazine was founded in Australia by Richard Neville
and Martin Sharp. They then came to London and set the magazine
up with Felix Dennis. The magazine's notorious contents results
in the Oz
trial of 1971. The title ran for 48 issues to the end of
1973. Felix Dennis went on to set up Dennis
publishing. |
 Press Gazette - sample edition from November 2005 on the Exact Editions website. The edition chosen carries a report (page 4) of how Piers Morgan bought Viglen shares that were tipped by the Daily Mirror's City Slickers column when he was editor. The scandal nearly cost Morgan his job. Fake pictures of British troops abusing prisoners in Iraq finally did lose him the job. He now owns the Press Gazette. |
Press Gazette goes digitalApril 26. Press Gazette, the weekly trade paper for
journalists, has been launched in a digital format by Exact
Editions. It is one of eight titles that has been transferred
to the platform, the others being: The Ecologist, The Art
Newspaper, Kiteworld, Hali, Modern Carpets, Traditional Boats
& Tall Ships, and Italy. This brings the
number of titles on the Exact Editions platform to 13 - five
were launched in February. The digital edition
of each issue is available on the day of publication as a replica
of the print version. Press Gazette revamped its website
earlier this month and added channels devoted to the various
sectors of journalism, such as magazines and national newspapers.
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 Real - fortnightly sold by Bauer to Essential |
Burda buys Essential19 April. Burda, the German publisher that launched real-life
weekly Full House last year, has bought up Essential
publishing. Among its titles, Essential publishes women's fortnightly
Real, which it bought from Bauer, another German group,
in 2004. Also bought Hachette's TV Hits and Your
Home from NatMags in August 2003. Burda has a short but
chequered history in the UK. Its 2003 launch, Amber,
folded and the company upset many newsagents with the launch
of Full House, which was seen as devaluing the market
with a low cover price and being sprung on the trade. It's ABC
sales figure for Jul-Dec 2005 was 235,787 at a cover price of
60p. The consumer homes sector is one in which the Essential
purchase gives Burda critical mass. Essential has four homes
titles while Burda launched Living &
Gardens just last month. Alan Urry, former UK boss
of Bauer, runs Burda company. |
 Guts - schoolboy humour hits France |
Men's fortnightly Guts for France30 March 2006. SCPE (Hachette Filipacchi). €2.90; 124pp.
Ed director: Sébastien Cauet |
 Mizz - sold to Panini |
Panini buys IPC’s MizzMarch. Italian sticker-book publisher Panini has bought Mizz
from IPC. Former editor Leslie Sinoway has been named editor
of the fortnightly teen title and the company is planning a
relaunch. Mizz sales fell 14.1 per cent to 60,425 in
the latest ABC figures. The title, which was launched in 1985,
takes Panini UK into a new market. |
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Raft of job swapsMarch has seen a raft of people changing chairs:
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 Sorted - print run of 3m copies |
Sorted!Spring 2006. The Post Office/Condé Nast (contract).
Free. 68pp |
 Fashion Inc - rebirth for Loaded Fashion 
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Fashion Inc from IPCSpring/Summer 2006. IPC Media, London. £5; 292pp. |
 The Sportsman - focus on betting |
The Sportsman22 March 2006. Sports Betting Media Ltd, London. £1;
88pp. Ed: Charlie Methven |
 Inside Out - first issue  Inside Out - dummy cover used for PR releases ahead of launch |
Inside OutApril. News Magazines Ltd (arm of News International), London.
£3.20; 180pp. Ed: Lisa Helmanis
In its 12 March edition, the Sunday Times, which sells
about 1.4 million copies each week, carried a 28-page preview
of Inside Out (six of the pages were adverts). The
sample carried money-off vouchers for the first three issue
(£1, 50p, 50p). More copies of the sample went out with
London Property News and The Sunday Times Travel
Magazine, bringing the total to 1.8 million. Editor Lisa
Helmanis is a former lifestyle editor of IPC homes title Living
Etc. The publisher is Jonathan Steel, who came from contract
publisher Publicis Blueprint. |
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Mail on Sunday sells You in shops7 March 2006. Associated Newspapers, London. £1; 108pp.
Ed: Sue Peart |