The Media Drop

PC World Communications & Mac Publishing, the parents of PC World and Macworld publications, announced Friday that Mike Kisseberth had been named president & CEO of the organization. Kisseberth was most recently at CNET Networks, where he was SVP of corporate sales and operations.

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I thought it much that The Economist was over on LinkedIn (I’ve subscribed now), but now it seems they’ve taken big note of the online space, and have bought into an Allied Info from Thrillist. Nice.

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Wired’s Epicenter blog has an entry from Dylan Tweney reporting that a “reshuffling” of management at PC Mag has left editor-in-chief Jim Louderback out of the picture, with Lance Ulanoff taking on the EIC role. On top of that, Liz Gannes is reporting that Louderback is joining Revision3, but that hasn’t been confirmed elsewhere. No […]

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Just got a note stating that Keith O’Brien was taking on the Executive Editor role at PR Week, replacing Eleanor Trickett who was moving on to DM News. Congrats, Keith!

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Earlier this week, I caught this item on MetaFilter about how the Independent Press Association had kicked the bucket, and how magazines were on the down and down. (That’s like up and up, just the other way). Of course, as big a tech-head as I am, I know that magazines aren’t a totally dying breed, […]

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In case you hadn’t already seen it, Boing Boing posted Wednesday about how Thrasher magazine had put its first 12 issues online for all to view. Yep, from way back in 1981. V. cool.

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If you’re at all familiar with the world of media in Europe (and elsewhere outside of the U.S.), you’ll know that it’s much less conservative in many nations, both on television and in print. That’s not saying that all of it is, just that things we regularly censor on network television are admitted on the […]

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The Associated Press reports Monday that Consumers Union, the folks who bring you Consumer Reports, will be letting loose a new magazine later this year, one that will run quarterly. The publication, ShopSmart, is all about style when it comes to layout and content, from what the article states.

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CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo has landed in the slower world of print media, but offers a different angle into her style and sense. She’ll be penning a bi-weekly column for BusinessWeek, which will run both in print and online, entitled “Face Time with Maria Bartiromo.” The first of (hopefully) many a column ran a few days […]

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On Monday, AdAge’s Nat Ives wrote about the announcement that Yahoo! would be adding some content from The Week to its Yahoo! Finance pages - the first time the Internet company has made a move like this. So who wins out here? Does The Week, which prides itself on being a magazine chock full of […]

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