Media

The drive to increase membership for the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement , the research initiative formed by major TV networks, agencies and advertisers, is bearing fruit as the organization has added a number of high-profile companies. At its first meeting of 2010, CIMM also provided more details...

Despite all the revenue declines and layoffs across the industry this past year, Steven Swartz (pictured), Hearst Newspapers president, had a lot of cheerful things to say in a memo (via Romenesko) to the company’s staff. Noting that 2009’s difficulties don’t need repeating, Swartz offered a list of positive developments over the past...

While Condé Nast is taking a more measured approach to distributing digitized versions of its magazines through the iTunes App Store, Hearst has already decided to put a new electronic edition of Esquire for sale each month on what is increasingly becoming Apple’s virtual newsstand. Hearst made the announcement on the same day the January...

Microsoft’s MSN, which has made local content a focus as part of its recent redesign, is now adding local video content to its pages as the result of deals it has reached with NBC Local Media and Hearst Television. Starting next year, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says it will include...

Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith (NYSE: MDP), News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Time Inc. are making it formal: the five publishers are equity partners in a new digital publishing venture with grand designs. They want nothing less than to develop open standards for cross-platform e-reader...

The much-discussed magazine consortium will be announced early next week with News Corp joining Conde Nast, Meredith (NYSE: MDP), Hearst and Time Inc., paidContent has confirmed from multiple sources. Each is investing in the new company, which plans to create a new digital newsstand, and each will have two members...

Forget First Paper. The incubated startup Hearst is looking to as a digital content savior is now Skiff, LLC, although the better name might be “Swiss Army E-Reader Ink” given all that it’s trying to do. Skiff, led by Gilbert Fuchsberg and headquartered in NYC with offices in Palo Alto, promises a 2010...

After weeks of talks and trial balloons, is Time Inc. actually close to signing a deal with other Conde Nast, Hearst and possibly other major publishers to form a digital magazine JV? Unidentified sources tell the New York Observer that’s the case. The new company, which...

Although it’s been fairly quiet on the M&A front lately, Hearst Corp. may have decided that now is the right time to start looking at acquisitions, NYP’s Keith Kelly reports. Citing unidentified sources, Kelly says that Hearst has $1 billion saved up for possible purchases. No word about any targets or deals in the works,...