FOLIO: Personalities -- The Blog People Page

We’re having a tough week with our pr contacts, and fellow editors and writers, I know you can empathize with this one. A pr contact I’ve come to depend on frequently for corporate sources, a rarity, I know, is leaving his job. This guy was always accommodating, often in the 11th hour, securing savvy contacts who consistently contributed usable stuff.

While unsolicited pitches sometimes do work, and those kind are certainly appreciated, he never pitched with merciless regularity and sent releases sparingly. He implicitly understood how the pr-editor relationship with Folio: works –- he didn’t sell, he cooperated, fully recognizing that a productive relationship with a trade pub can elevate his colleagues’ stature in a More...

Why, if Keith Kelly is correct in his reporting that it’s losing $35 million per year, is Life magazine still around? As shareholder and bottom-line pressures mount for Time Warner’s magazine division, Anne Moore’s Time Inc., which resurrected the magazine in 2004 as a startlingly thin newspaper insert, has been slicing off huge pieces of itself for the past 9 months. With the latest announcement that 18 titles in the enthusiast group Time4 Media are up for sale, another 560 jobs will be added to the 500 that have already been cut. Yet, as Skip Zimbalist, current CEO of enthusiast publisher Active Interest Media and likely bidder on some of the Time4 titles, noted, “If you look at most of the magazines they are number one or nu More...