time inc.

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 7:10PM 10/27/2009
    The media recession may be gradually lifting, according to Rupert Murdoch and Janet Robinson, but that doesn't mean everyone with a publishing job is going to make it to the other side. Forbes Inc. embarked on a fresh round of layoffs this week, and employees at Time Inc., the world's biggest...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 3:00PM 10/20/2009
    When a $20 billion company buys a magazine for less than $5 million, it's almost by definition not a big deal. And even if the true cost of Bloomberg's acquisition of BusinessWeek is closer to the $70 million Sharon Waxman reports, it's still barely a speck on the financial-news giant's balance...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 11:20AM 10/02/2009
    Is Time Warner going to sell its magazine division? A lot of people think so, but Jeffrey Bewkes says otherwise. At The Atlantic Monthly's "First Draft of History" conference in Washington, D.C., the Time Warner (TWX) chairman and CEO just poured cold water on speculation that the media...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 6:00PM 9/29/2009
    Pssst...wanna buy the world's biggest magazine publisher? It might be for sale very soon, if investors and analysts are correct in their hunches. Speculation that Time Warner (TWX) will sell Time Inc. has flared up in the past few days after a major investor said he expects the deal to happen....

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 1:00PM 6/18/2009
    Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore has extended her reign at the world's largest magazine company for another three years, signing a contract extension that will carry her through 2012, reports the New York Post's Keith Kelly. It's a small bit of continuity for a company whose future is very much up in the...