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Media Decoder Blog: Cable TV and Movie Divisions Help Lift Time Warner Revenue

The company's strategy of shedding under-performing assets and focusing on content was paying off, according to its chief executive, Jeffrey L. Bewkes.

Time Inc. Skips The CES Bins, Sort Of; Offers Free Downloads Of All Titles

Not too long ago, grazing the magazine bins was a perk of going to a trade show. But consolidation and closures mean fewer publications—and digital platforms offer access to the info without lugging around the ones that are left. Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.‘s solution at CES this year?

Buy A 1-Year Nook NYT Subscription, Get The Nook Free

In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It’s the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription.

The newsonomics of the News Dial-o-Matic

It's an emerging issue of our time and place. They know too much about us, and we know too little about what they know. We do know that what they know about us is increasingly determining what they choose to give us to read. We wonder: What are we missing? And just who is making...

Journalism Education Roundup, Dec. 6, 2011

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The Media Equation: At Time Inc., a Leader to Help It Fit the New Digital Order

The announcement that Laura Lang, the head of the digital advertising agency Digitas, would be the new chief executive of Time, Inc. was a bracing moment for the print romantics among us.

Media Decoder Blog: Breakfast Meeting, Dec. 1

Grammy nominees are announced, Fox News and debates replace retail campaigning and Time Inc. appoints a digital advertising executive as its chief.

Consumer Reports Launches iPad Subscriptions, 7 New Smartphone Apps

Consumer Reports, which named the iPad the top tablet earlier this year, is now adding subscriptions and free access for print subscribers to its iPad app. As part of its ongoing strategy to reach younger readers, it is also releasing seven new smartphone apps, including one that scans barcodes for instant access to CR ratings...

Media Decoder Blog: Time Warner Picks New Head for Time Inc. Magazine Unit

The selection of Laura Lang, the head of the digital ad agency Digitas, would add online expertise to the country’s largest magazine publisher.

Digitas CEO Laura Lang To Head Time Inc.

Nine months after he fired Jack Griffin, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has finally filled the most prominent empty chair at the media company, appointing Laura Lang, CEO of Digitas since 2008, as CEO of Time Inc. Once again, he’s going outside the company to do it—and this time, he’s also...

How Time Inc. is preparing for a future in digital news with a j-school of its own

Apple has its own in-house university; so does McDonalds. Also on that list of corporate colleges: Time Inc. But instead of another institution to help the ambitious find a glide path to middle management, Time's institution is more j-school than Hamburger U. At the three-year-old Time Inc. University (imaginary mascot: The Fightin' Henry Luces), the...

Next Issue Media Expands Digital Newsstand Beyond Samsung Galaxy

Next Issue Media, the digitized magazine and newspaper newsstand, has added several more titles from company backers Hearst and Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) to its preview edition and struck new distribution agreements with several mobile device makers. However, as it prepares for its full-feature product release for some time...