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Fortune Tackles Its Web Site Again, With a High-Profile Hire

in Media on January 21, 2010 at 4:12 am PT

Here’s what qualifies as a man-bites-dog story these days: A big mainstream business publication hiring an experienced business journalist. Weird, right? But true: Fortune magazine has hired veteran writer Dan Roth to run and revitalize the title’s Web site. He starts as managing editor next week.
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Time Inc. Wonders What You’ll Pay For on the Web

in Media on March 19, 2009 at 5:10 am PT

Time Inc. is happy to boast about its online audience, but it’s also acknowledging that Web advertising alone may not be enough these days. So it’s going to start charging readers — or at least start thinking about the notion.

Actual Time Inc. Layoff News: Plans Unveiled, Slowly, Starting Next Week

in Media on November 5, 2008 at 1:26 pm PT

Time Inc. employees know that layoffs are coming, and this morning they were told that the layoffs will cost parent company Time Warner a bundle. Still unknown: who’s actually getting fired. That will change beginning next week, says Time Inc. spokeswoman Dawn Bridges. She says the company will unveil the “size, staffing and structure of each of the business units” beginning “early next week.”

Online Meltdown Update: AOL Ads Down Six Percent in Third Quarter

in Media on November 5, 2008 at 4:32 am PT

More fuel for the online advertising pessimists among you: Advertising revenues at AOL dropped six percent in the third quarter. Given that those results cover the three-month period that ended Sept. 30, which only included a couple weeks of flat-out economic collapse, there will be worse news in store for the last quarter of the year.

One Time Inc. Casualty: Digital Boss Ned Desmond

in Media on October 30, 2008 at 1:51 pm PT

Time Inc. still hasn’t figured out exactly how many people the magazine publisher will fire this fall — the 600 number reported earlier this week, we’re told, is a guesstimate. In the meantime there are plenty of high-level org chart changes, like the departure of Ned Desmond, a longtime Time Inc. vet who was most recent title was President of Time Inc. Interactive. Click through to read Time Inc. boss Ann Moore’s goodbye memo.