FOLIO: Magazine Staff
May 1, 2006
Pamela Henderson, the crops and issues editor of Farm Journal, won this year's Grand Neal Award for editorial achievement. She is the first agricultural journalist to win a Grand Neal Award and beat out 32 other category winners for the honor. Henderson's nine-article series entitled "Asian Soybean Rust Takes Root
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FOLIO: Magazine Staff
May 1, 2006
The Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, which have been called "the Pulitzer Prize of the business press," are named after American Business Media's first managing director, who remained active in promoting the business press throughout his life. When it was first established in 1955, the Neal Awards competition drew
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FOLIO: Magazine Staff
May 1, 2006
Kalmbach Publishing Co., which owns 14 hobbyist and leisure interest titles, last December executed an endcap display program in Barnes & Noble that boosted not only retail sales but ad pages in those issues. The publisher tied the effort into its January issues, which tend to be among its best sellers.
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FOLIO: Magazine Staff
May 1, 2006
Anyone selling magazine advertising today knows that no matter how much people love reading magazines, we all need a grab bag of "out of the box" programs that lure advertisers into our books. That's why more traditional magazine publishers are seriously looking to add custom publishing as an additional service. It's an editorial, rather than advertorial, solution for advertisers.
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FOLIO: Magazine Staff
May 1, 2006
ABM named Joseph J. Hanson, chairman of Professional Media Group LLC, the recipient of its 38th Annual Crain Award. The Award was established by a grant from the G.D. Crain, Jr. Foundation. Given annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the development of editorial excellence in business media, the award
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FOLIO: Magazine Staff
April 28, 2006
Issue: March/April 2006 Frequency: Bimonthly Launched: 1970 Circulation: 110,000 Editor: Moises Naim Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Art Director/Design: Travis Daub Concept: A cover story entitled "The Return of Patriarchy" deserves cover art that reflects the mission
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FOLIO: Magazine Staff
April 28, 2006
Thomas A. Quadracci, who cofounded Quad/Graphics with his brother, the late Harry V. Quadracci, will retire from his position as CEO July 1 and retire entirely from the company at the end of the year. He will be replaced by J. Joel Quadracci.
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FOLIO: Magazine Staff
April 27, 2006
There have been around 150 magazine launches so far this year, depending who you ask. How many of these will still be publishing 100 years from now?
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Tony Silber
April 27, 2006
Why does it seem so hard for some publishers to understand the concept of magazine media as a brand-based business? Where print is a strong component, but only one of several. At the Western Publications Association Conference last month, I sat in on the half-day Executive Management Workshop (which FOLIO: sponsored). One of the attendees challenged a speaker, saying that the additional
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