Readers Digest

Reader's Digest is known for its good, albeit rather obvious advice. Therefore, I'm guessing the problem here is in the editing process, rather than the writers. Who has time to read 50 suggestions while having a heart attack?

How much symbolism does it take to turn around a bankrupt publishing company? If there's an answer, you can be sure that Mary Berner won't fall short of it. Berner is the CEO of Reader's Digest Association, which filed for Chapter 11 in August. A former executive at Conde Nast Publications, Berner...

USA Today, founded in 1982 by Gannett (GCI) CEO Al Neuharth as a radical experiment to create a national newspaper, may no longer be the largest paper in the U.S. based on circulation. Industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher obtained information from Gannett management that says that "USA...

Add Reader's Digest Association to the list of media companies that are going to need a detour through bankruptcy to make it through the recession. The Pleasantville, N.Y.-based publisher is embarking on a Chapter 11 restructuring process that will allow it to convert some $1.6 billion in debt...

Remember a little earlier today when we linked to a New York Times story about how Reader's Digest Association was moving in a "decided conservative direction" to court red-state religious types? Not so much, it turns out. RDA executive Eva Dillon just sent out the following memo denying the...

Mass-market print magazines are in rapid decline. Could cable news offer a model for renewed growth? Reader's Digest Association thinks it might. The Chappaqua, N.Y.-based publisher, whose name is virtually synonymous with broad, inoffensive general-interest content, is hoping to reverse its...