Men's lifestyle website AskMen's Great Male Survey polled men on a host of subjects: Careers, relationships and -- most important for us at DailyFinance -- their financial opinions. Then they teamed with Cosmopolitan to get the female point of view. And some of the gender disparities were pretty striking.
Magazine executive John T. Elduff recently paid $2,000 for the trademark rights of the once-renowned weekly Collier's, which went bankrupt in the 1950s. His plans to bring it back to life as a print publication aim at folks who'll recall the name: those in the 50- to 90-year old demographic.
Amazon.com says it will pay more for newspapers and magazines on its Kindle e-book reader. It will now pay publishers 70% of retail price, up from paying about one-third of the retail fee for The Wall Street Journal last December. Will more content help Kindle compete with the iPad?
Former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers resigned from her last job after an uninvited couple crashed a state dinner. But she's moved on from the embarrassing party crashers incident: She's just been named the new CEO of Johnson Publishing, which publishes Jet and Ebony magazines.
William Baldwin announced Tuesday that he's taking a new job at the struggling business magazine as a writer. The move comes about two months after Forbes hired Lew Dvorkin as chief product officer, above Baldwin.
Conde Nast was ruthless with its print magazine titles in 2009, shuttering many niche favorites like Domino. Fans were thrilled this week when content from Domino began reappearing under the Brides magazine masthead on the company's Brides.com website.
Playboy Enterprises is downsizing again as it continues its transition from a lifestyle and media business into a brand-management company. The company expects to save more than $3 million annually.
Anyone eagerly awaiting a world in which all content is paid content would do well to observe Rolling Stone's clumsy handling of its General Stanley McChrystal blockbuster.
Sony sells plenty of Readers worldwide, but it years ago gave up trying to market them in Japan. Now, just as Apple is about to launch its iPad there, Sony is defending its home turf with a new joint venture designed to solve the problem that stymied its previous e-book attempts: lack of content.
Forbes Media, parent company of the 93-year-old business magazine, has acquired True/Slant, a blogging community for journalists founded last year by former AOL executive Lewis Dvorkin.
