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InternMatch, a start-up that helps students find internships, is calling on companies to sign a “Bill of Rights’ that promises fair treatment and paid or meaningful work. Some big names are signing on.
The arrival of the iPad was supposed to boost online subscription sales for magazines. It didn’t work out that way. But smaller devices like the iPad Mini and Nook are starting to change that.
Hearst is following Conde Nast’s lead and will start releasing metrics on its paid iPad editions, the company announced today. Separately, t…
In a New Year letter to employees, Hearst president David Carey reiterated that the company’s target this year is to reach over 1 million pa…
Hearst’s sale of a majority stake in its niche entertainment topics site/app collection LMK to digital holding company Black Ocean may not h…
Condé Nast is the latest publisher to claim a boom in digital magazine sales from the launch of Apple’s Newsstand two weeks: the publisher…
Yieldex, which offers services designed to protect publishers’ pricing from the the downward pressure often brought by ad exchanges and ad n…
Hachette Filipacchi UK’s digital strategy director Anna Jones is being made Hearst Magazines UK’s acting COO.
In her place, former iVillage…
Another interesting digital acquisition by R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., the Chicago publishing services company that picked up Steve Brill an…
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Oprah sold millions of books through her Book Club. Now she has the chance to do the same through O, The Oprah Magazine’s iPad app: The July…
Manilla, a new free online bill management service incubated by media giant Hearst, is now available to the public. It offers to manage and store your bills and lets users set custom alerts to remind them to pay.
As AOL (NYSE: AOL) prepares for its Q1 earnings on Wednesday morning — and the expectation that it will have reduced declines in display ad…
» Satellite TV system Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) is partnering with cross-platform pay-TV venture Epix, which is backed by Paramou…
» New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Digital Subscriptions: The Unofficial FAQ Updated (paidContent … Also, see our Staci D. Kramer on…
After five years as one of the top digital executives at Hearst Magazines, Chuck Cordray is leaving the company to become president of Pitne…
The latest newspaper chain to turn to daily deals to supplement its online revenue: Hearst Corp. The company will soon offer daily deals in…
Hearst Magazines is continuing to refine its approach to balancing its print and digital publications and has tapped former Rodale executive…
In addition to apps and tablets, Hearst Magazines President David Carey provided some general outlines of the company’s e-commerce strategy…
The notion that the iPad was going to save newspapers and magazines had been diminishing somewhat lately, especially since publishers have t…
With George Kliavkoff now heading up Hearst bill payment management start-up Manilla, Neeraj Khemlani has been named to succeed him as EVP &…
Hearst is unveiling the beta version of Manilla, a free personal account management service that lets consumers organize their bills, financ…
French media conglomerate Lagardère says it’s received a binding offer from Hearst of €651 ($892.52/£560.45) million for its non-French…
» Sources say Rupert Murdoch will be joined by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs for News Corp.’s unveiling of its “iPad newspape…
Hearst Interactive Media is investing in VillageVines, as part of the restaurant deal site’s $3 million first round. With VillageVines, memb…
Hearst Interactive Media and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) (through its Google Ventures VC arm) have put $1.5 million in Miso, a startup that lets peo…
It seems publishers are increasingly keen to start learning more about their audiences.
Hearst’s UK arm NatMag is adding a research and ins…
» Hearst and Hachette execs are set to meet in the next few weeks to finalize deal talks. But before that happens, it’s losing so…
Just in time for the holidays, Hearst Magazines’ Popular Mechanics and Esquire have released a digital publication on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) th…
It looks like Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. hasn’t finished cutting its costs, as parent Lagardère Active is considering selling off most…
The mobile ad market may be starting to bloom thanks to the efforts by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), but Neeraj Khemlani, VP a…
Cathie Black, the chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, is leaving to become chancellor of the New York City Schools. Black had been president of…
The massively multiplayer online game market has lately been overshadowed by the boom in social gaming, but money is still flowing into the…
Esquire took its time, but it finally released its iPad mag app last night on iTunes. While the Hearst mag has been selling digital issues o…
It’s Advertising Week in New York and at many of the conferences and workshops the big topic is the blurring of the lines between of adverti…
Aside from pop-up ads perhaps, having to enter a “CAPTCHA” — the process of rewriting a barely readable piece of text to prove you’re not…
As Hearst Magazines continues its app rollout through the end of this year, the publisher is opening an “App Lab” at its New York headquarte…
Five days after releasing its iPad app version of Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazine says iTunes users have downloaded more than 10,000 copi…
David Carey is leaving his post as group president at Condé Nast to become president of Hearst Magazines. Carey will succeed Cathie Black i…
It took just six months, but Esquire magazine’s iPhone app has crossed a big threshold: it’s gotten 100,000 downloads of in Apple’s iTunes…
Hearst has finally succeeded in buying search marketing specialist iCrossing, we have confirmed with a source familiar with the matter. The…
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is tapping Hearst Digital’s digital services and development director Julian Downing to be its director of its AOL Media div…
It’s not a done deal yet, but after several months of negotiations, Hearst Corp. is close to buying digital marketing firm iCrossing, the WS…
Hearst has about 70 apps under its LMK banner in the iTunes App Store right now and it just plans to keep adding more and more. Most of the…
As expected, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) has bought the remaining 50 percent stake in personal finance mag SmartMoney from Hearst. The financial t…
Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) wants to buy the 50 percent stake it doesn’t currently have in personal finance mag SmartMoney from Hearst, the WSJ re…
I don’t know anyone who thought it would last — and it didn’t. A few months after the August merger of Lifetime Networks into A&E Televisio…
The typical publishing story these days involves a print mag being shuttered to go web-only. But Meredith (NYSE: MDP) and Hearst are taking…
Despite all the revenue declines and layoffs across the industry this past year, Steven Swartz (pictured), Hearst Newspapers president, had…
While Condé Nast has taken a more measured approach to distributing digitized versions of its magazines through the iTunes App Store, Hears…
Forget First Paper. The incubated startup Hearst is looking to as a digital content savior is now Skiff, LLC, although the better name might…
Hearst Corp., which has been fairly quiet on the M&A front recently, may have decided that now is the time to dive in. Citing unidentified s…
As UGO.com, the Hearst-owned male-centric entertainment site, continues to look for a new CEO, it has filled in some other blank spaces in i…
Esquire last year used E-Ink for its “digital cover” in an effort to showcase the potential for fusing magazines and technology. Now, the He…
Hearst is launching a new media brand this morning and it’s not a magazine, a newspaper or a TV show. LMK.com — as in “Let me know” — is…
Privately held Hearst Corp. has added four executives to its board of directors: George R. Hearst III, publisher of the Albany Times Union,…
Hearst Corp, which is still hammered on the newspaper side, is continuing its diversification efforts. It has bought another 20 percent stak…
Is E Ink, which makes display technology vital to the Kindle, selling out for too little? The company announced a deal earlier this month to…
If all goes as planned, Hearst and *Disney* could wind up as 50-50 partners in a joint venture combining A&E Television Networks with Lifeti…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) execs have always been more than a little circumspect when it comes to discussing how well the 800-member Yahoo Newspaper…
Eight newspaper sites in the top 30 experienced drops in monthly unique visitors in April, according to Nielsen Online — and at least two a…
A defensive tone crept into many of the acceptance speeches at last night’s American Society of Magazine Editors magazine awards at the *Tim…
Looks like TV-station operator Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV) wants more money if it is going to sell its remaining public shares back to private…
Hearst Magazines has created an online portal — not for users, but for advertisers and agencies. AdAge notes the mag publishers is compelli…
New Nielsen numbers for March show that traffic at the new online-only version of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer tumbled — but Seattlepi.co…
With everyone looking for cost-savings these days, Hearst Digital hopes to capitalize on that desire by starting a partnership with Coupons.…
For some perverse reason, Phil Bronstein, editor-at-large of Hearst Newspapers and the SF Chronicle, decided to go on the Colbert Report and…
It makes some sense: Cut your editorial staff by 80 percent, and there’s at least a decent chance that Web traffic will tumble. And that’s j…
On Jan. 9, Hearst Newspapers President Steve Swartz flew into Seattle and told the staff of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that if Hearst co…
Hearst Corp. wants to buy the remaining stake in local TV operator Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV). The company is offering $4 per share in cash,…
Only Hearst executives will ever understand why they unnecessarily put the staff of the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer through an a…
NBC Universal’s former chief digital officer George Kliavkoff, often billed as the main brain behind Hulu, has landed at Hearst, MediaMemo’s…
Monday was the end of the 60-day self-imposed deadline that Hearst gave on the fate of Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, and as of today…
The newspaper division of Hearst, one of the most troubled in the country, is in the middle of its
As online advertising revenues are expected to slow to little more than a trickle this year, Hearst is the latest newspaper company trying t…
Hearst filled in a few of the information gaps about its new e-reader, which we first reported on last April, but left other questions unans…
Another major change at the Yahoo Media Group: Yahoo News head Neeraj Khemlani is leaving Santa Monica for New York and the Hearst Corporat…
— 23/6/HuffPo: Sarah Bernard, the former GM of HuffingtonPost (before current CEO Betsy Morgan was appointed in fall 2007) has left the com…
Following yesterday’s leak to a local TV station that Hearst Corp. was planning to sell or close the Seattle Post Intelligencer, the parent…
Scott Sassa, the former CEO of Friendster, the founder and CEO of Uber.com, the social network which recently closed down, and the once pres…
One of the highlights from our EconWomen conference in NYC this week — Tina Brown, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, inter…
Just a year ago, when the economic outlook was a lot brighter, web publishers began jumping on the eco-friendly bandwagon. A Mediaweek piece…
Local broadcaster Hearst-Argyle’s (NYSE: HTV) Q2 digital revenues rose 13 percent $5.7 million from last year’s $5 million. Naturally, that…
Because the elite can’t be seen networking with the rest of us… Spire.com, a social networking site for folks whose net worth is $250k or…
Hearst Business Media, the B2B media arm of Hearst, has jointly bought out a Chinese electronics infomation site EE365.cn, along with its lo…
Hearst, the media company which has made a number of major digital moves in the last few years even as its traditional businesses are bleedi…
TV station owner Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV) saw revenues decline 2.6 percent in Q1 to $165.1 million as the softening economy held back spend…
Hearst Magazines is rolling out a number of text-messaging services to its magazine readers after their success in CosmoGIRL, where the serv…
Hearst Interactive, the digital media investment arm of Hearst Corp, is incubating a Kindle-like e-book reader, paidContent.org has learned,…
Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV) has reported Q4 revenue of $216.6 million, down 8 percent year-over-year from $234.4 million. Net income slipped 2…
— NBCU’s entertainment sites offer retro shows: NBC Digital Entertainment and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) Cable Entertainment announced they w…
— National Geographic Global Media: NGGM has announced Maps.com veteran Charles Regan as its new VP-digital mapping business. Regan will re…
— Lehman Charts Online Ad Slowdown Through ’09: Online ad revenues in United States will grow 25.6 percent, 23.6 percent and 20 percent in…
Hearst is on a mini-acquisition tear: it is buying health and wellness info site RealAge, for what NYT estimates to be around $100 million.…
Starting today, Google News (Nasdaq: GOOG) will incorporate click-and-expand news video from some YouTube content partners as part of a limi…
In the first half of 2007, Hearst’s relatively new digital media group launched 19 sites (14 web, 5 mobile) — all part of its post-iVillage…
Well, you can’t blame them for trying…Hearst’s UK division Natmags has axed its digital-only magazine Jellyfish after a five-month trial,…
Hearst has announced its second online acquisition in two weeks: first it bought UGO for between $100-$150 million, and now it is buying sho…
Worldwide Biggies, a digital production studio started two years ago by former Nickelodeon President Albie Hecht, has received $9 million in…
Hearst-Argyle Television (NYSE: HTV) reported that Q2 profits were down 32 percent to $17 million compared to $25 million for the same perio…
We got a tip about this two weeks ago, but could not confirm it out of disbelief: UGO has been around for so long, and has been on the block…
Hearst, which invested $6 million in Irvine, CA-based business directory site Local.com earlier this year through its Interactive Media divi…
Lifetime’s rash of upfront announcements includes a full remake of LifetimeTV.com slated for June and expanded digital content that, if succ…
Despite hopes that magazine websites would yield higher subscription rates, online-originated subs have hovered around 10 percent of all new…
— Joost-WMG: Joost has another significant content deal, this time with Warner Music Group. The video service, still in beta, will produce…
IDG, which already has big investments in China through its venture arm there, has tied up with News Corp and heart to launch a $50 million…
As it continues reshaping its 14 magazine websites, Hearst is working with internet TV tech company Maven Networks on the ability to run abo…
Hearst Interactive Media is investing $8 million in Irvine, CA-based business directory site Local.com, which plans to use the proceeds for…
Hearst’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer began a beta test Thursday of a Microsoft program that lets readers download the entire newspaper onto t…
Esquire’s website revealed its anticipated makeover on Wednesday, boasting several new features, along with sharper graphics and more promin…
Hearst magazines is making a novel addition to its sites: it has tied up with online game developer Arkadium in a two year deal to add a num…
Hearst Magazines may have been too cautious in the past when it came to building up its website properties (for instance, the not-so success…
Hearst has finally made a move in the online M&A market, after its venture arm has been investing heavily in digital media startups (Sling M…
This is a big huge round considering it is a pure content play, and only a year old, though I’m assuming some of it might be for acquisition…
Gather.com, the Boston-based online networking/community site (I met a bunch of Gather employees at our Boston mixer tonight…who were smar…
