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- Publishers are joining forces for Facebook Live videos
The latest in audience development: Publishers are collaborating on Facebook Live videos in the hopes of getting more people to watch the content.
- Duncan Edwards Steps Down as CEO of Hearst Magazines International
Hearst Magazines International (HMI) president and CEO Duncan Edwards has announced he is leaving the company, after seven years in the position and 27 years total at Hearst.
- How Publishers Are Getting “Data-Fleeced” by Ad Networks
Melody Kramer’s recent piece, “When newsrooms don’t own their data, other companies profit” on Poynter should be a hard and fast wake-up call for publishers.
- Snapchat is starting Real Life, an online magazine about technology
Snapchat doesn’t just care about video. The company is behind a new online magazine called Real Life, which will publish roughly one article each weekday on the subject of technology, starting on June 27.
- Why All Publishers Should Join the World Wide Web Consortium
In a 2014 talk called “An Architecture of Collaboration,” I described 12 actions publishers could take to better understand and take advantage of new sources and uses of what was once just book content.
- Johnson Publishing Sells ‘Ebony,’ ‘Jet’
Two of the country’s oldest consumer magazines targeting African-American readers have been sold, with Johnson Publishing’s announcement that private equity firm Clear View Group has acquired Ebony and Jet.
- A magazine about women’s sport has been launched in a bid to “redress the balance” of coverage in mainstream publications.
The first issue of Sportswoman, out now, features interviews with Olympic rowing gold-medallist Katherine Grainger, Britain’s first senior football manager Shelley Kerr and Paralympian Libby Clegg.
- AOP Premium Publisher Alliance acquired by Intrinsic Europe
AOP, the Association of Online Publishers, has announced that it has sold its premium publisher aggregated solution, Symmachia Ltd, for an undisclosed amount to programmatic experts Intrinsic Europe.
- ‘Starting To Hit the Wall’: A Conference Focuses on Publishing Rights
Things are not going to stop changing,’ Ingenta’s Randy Petway told Monday’s Rights Conference audience. And that means new urgency around effective rights management.