Cover Story

The Rise of Renaissance

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:09:17 -0500

Just days after Hurricane Katrina hit, Kelley Faucheux stood on the balcony of New Orleans Magazine's 18th floor office.

Startup Stories

Dan Trombetto — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:02:25 -0500

The entrepreneurial spirit and lure of new revenue streams have not dimmed. If anything, they’ve grown more vital.

The 2011 Eddie and Ozzie Award Winners

Dan Trombetto — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:02:23 -0500

FOLIO:’s Eddie and Ozzie awards competition is the largest of its kind for magazine publishers. It also has the proud distinction of being the only awards event open to magazines and websites of all kinds—consumer, b-to-b, association, custom and regional, big and small.

Events: The REAL Media Star

Dan Trombetto — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:28:48 -0500

A 2008 white paper from media banker DeSilva & Phillips and AMR International characterized events as the “star of old media.” However, as print continues to decline and digital often struggles to live up to the hype, events are more than just the star of old media, offering higher profits than print and far higher revenue than digital.

FOLIO:'s 2011 13 Under 30

Dan Trombetto — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:32:23 -0400

While it’s natural to worry about how the publishing industry is going to attract the next generation of leaders, the fact is the industry is already seeing a demographic shift, with younger people taking on more leadership roles.

Magazine Manufacturing and Production Survey

Dan Trombetto — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:08:40 -0400

The good news: Publishers aren’t cutting manufacturing and production budgets as much as they did last year. The bad news: They aren’t exactly investing in magazine manufacturing and production, either.

From the August issue of FOLIO: The Making of Marines

Dan Trombetto — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:21:29 -0400

Publishers and E-Commerce: Perfect Together

Dan Trombetto — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:21:02 -0400

E-commerce is a big opportunity for publishers. “If you talk to the people at Net-A-Porter or the people at Gilt, they say they’re increasingly commerce companies moving into content and I think what you’re going to find is content companies are going to move into commerce,” Hearst Magazines president David Carey said earlier this year.

National Treasure

Dan Trombetto — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:59:09 -0400

National Geographic is a perennial winner at the National Magazine Awards, picking up 26 through the years, including the two it won in 2011 (one of which was Magazine of the Year, making National Geographic just the second title to earn that honor since it was introduced in 2010).

B-to-B’s New Hope: Marketing Services

Dan Trombetto — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:57:23 -0400

American Business Media’s Annual Meeting, held in early May, took a single theme approach around the topic of marketing services. While the core of marketing services is based on many things publishers already offer (content, data, lead gen), it’s also a different business with longer sales cycles, sometimes lower margins, and a different sales and editorial mentality.