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Byline: NAT IVES Carol a. smith brought little fashion experience with her when she arrived as publisher of Elle in 2002, the magazine's worst year ever. But Ms. Smith, former [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Five years ago, The Economist published an article headlined 'House of Cards,'' surveying rising home prices from Washington to Sydney. Doesn't this heated market, the article asked, [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Old-media guardians might find some solace in Ad Age's annual list of the 100 Leading Media Companies, published in this issue. Not a single company in the [...]

Byline: NAT IVES In a tough year and surrounded by fast-growing digital media, magazines are using their physical attributes more than ever to grab advertisers and readers. You may get [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Frantic readers bought more than 1.3 million copies of 'Breaking Dawn,'' the final book in Stephenie Meyer's vampire saga, on its first day of sale Aug. 2. [...]

Byline: Nat Ives Magazines have watched newsstand sales fall all year as high gas prices have reduced traffic through checkout lanes and slimmed the wallets of those who were there, [...]

Byline: nat ives If the magazine industry was hoping traditionally fat September issues would help boost their performance in a year when they've scrambled just to stay even with last [...]

Byline: nat ives The Magazine Publishers of America almost sounded like the trade group for Hollywood or record labels last week. 'We believe [this] is a blatant copyright infringement of [...]

Byline: NAT IVES You could always forgive the publishers of Wired magazine for not landing the Gucci account, that Sean John schedule or those Prada pages. Wired is not like [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Dell's long-term agreement to buy most or all back covers of magazines including BusinessWeek, Forbes and The Economist was uncommon from the start, as publishers pocketed premium [...]

Byline: Nat Ives Newspapers are gradually filling their teams with new faces just as eager to compete with each other as with the new media making all their lives hell. [...]

Byline: Brian Steinberg and Nat Ives The internet has changed everything from watching TV to ordering groceries. So it's not surprising that the folks at Time Inc. are trying to [...]

Byline: NAT IVES It's already been eight months since Rupert Murdoch plucked Les Hinton from London to run Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, and Mr. Hinton does not [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Katharine weymouth is the fifth member of her family to serve as publisher of The Washington Post, but she presents a firmly unassuming air. 'I hope I [...]

Byline: NAT IVES It's been six months since Scott Donaton, Ad Age's editor-turned-publisher, jumped ship to become the fifth publisher in five years at Time Inc.'s Entertainment Weekly. It was [...]

Byline: Nat Ives 'It's been a very nice 24 hours,'' Susan Lyne said last week, one day after Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia revealed that she was stepping down as president [...]

Byline: NAT IVES U.s. ad spending grew an anemic 0.6% in the first three months of the year, as a slow economy countered media companies' earlier, brighter hopes for 2008. [...]

Byline: Nat Ives U.s. news & world report, the longtime No. 3 weekly news magazine, will drop to a biweekly schedule next year, effectively ceding the troubled category to larger [...]

Byline: nat ives Hillary Clinton may not get the chance to return her family to the White House this fall, but Bill Clinton made sure we got one more flashback [...]

Byline: NAT IVES The push to make magazine pages more interactive is building mass and, dare we say it, even real momentum as major publishers and advertisers adopt a pair [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Development of The Wall Street Journal's glossy magazine, WSJ, is entering a new phase in the last three months before Sept. 6. That's when the magazine will [...]

Byline: NAT IVES U.s. news & world report, the longtime No. 3 weekly news magazine, is dropping to a biweekly frequency starting next year, effectively ceding its troubled category to [...]

Byline: nat ives USA Today has launched several initiatives beyond its daily in an effort to find new revenue. Its Open Air magazine, about active living, already has recruited advertisers [...]

Byline: nat ives Convincing advertisers and readers to try a me-too publication is usually a lot easier than tempting them with something that's new and busts boundaries. But if you [...]

Byline: Nat Ives Time Inc.'s This Old House, for its June issue, changed its logo to read 'Your Old House,'' thus joining the user-generated game with an issue comprising only [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Some magazine publishers hoped that this year would see marketers shake off their exuberance for digital media. Perhaps, amid a sober reassessment of the actual results from [...]

Byline: Nat Ives You know how sometimes a news event finally arrives a year or more after the celebrity weeklies started wrongly, repeatedly insisting it had already happened? That's how [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Time inc., the country's largest magazine publisher, shocked its industry two years ago when it decided to sell 18 of its magazines, including well-known brands such as [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Newspapers across the country have suffered repeated budget cuts like those last week at The Daily Camera in Colorado and The New York Times. But it's only [...]

Byline: Nat Ives Some years, the National Magazine Awards amount to a heap of accolades for The New Yorker, while last year emerged as a five-win coronation for New York. [...]

Byline: NAT IVES By now you know the story: The business of newspapers is in decline. It's a terminal decline, if you believe experts such as Jeffrey Cole, director of [...]

Byline: Nat Ives If you thought the never-ending Democratic primary match was bruising Sens. Hillary 'Rocky'' Clinton and Barack Obama, consider the damage to any polish that may have remained [...]

Byline: NAT IVES One of magazines' biggest strengths in the dawning digital age-that engrossing environment often said to be so conducive to glossy branding campaigns-isn't much help when the economic [...]

Byline: Nat Ives Color us skeptical on this one: Magazine editors in the U.S. and England are considering codes of conduct governing the way they Photoshop stars' imperfections. Not that [...]

Byline: nat ives We didn't think there was much untouched ad real estate left in magazines, but Starbucks has found some. In the May issue of Bon Appetit, Starbucks takes [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Parade, the sunday magazine that comes wrapped inside your local newspaper, plans to spin off a monthly health-and-wellness supplement this September. That may seem bullish given the [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Still on ann S. Moore's to-do list: trimming the portfolio of Time Inc. titles. That's the impression she left with many staffers after a quarterly management meeting [...]

Byline: NAT IVES The run-up to Earth Day got a big kickoff last week when scientists revealed that 160 square miles of Antarctic ice shelf had unexpectedly disintegrated. Green concerns [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Eliot spitzer liked what he saw of Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the call girl at the center of his disgrace, but will America make her a media star? [...]

Byline: Nat Ives More magazine keeps roaring along, having just completed its fabulous 40-plus model search in New York, and Martha Stewart is apparently contemplating her own magazine for a [...]

Byline: Nat Ives Longtime readers of The Atlantic are likely to do double takes when they see Britney Spears on its next cover-a rarified piece of media real estate more [...]

Byline: NAT IVES When the magazine industry turned out for its latest digital conference last week, no one doubted the importance of the web. But now that they've moved online, [...]

Byline: nat ives WHAT IT IS: Shifd is basically an online repository for your notes, maps and links designed to simplify clipping and transferring content from the web to mobile [...]

Byline: Nat Ives Have you ever wondered why Lindsay Lohan, who hasn't shown much skill in chosen fields such as acting or singing, gets so many magazine covers? It's pretty [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Chris anderson's book 'The Long Tail'' described the rising potential in niche media-enabled by plummeting digital-storage costs-and predicted a declining reliance on blockbuster media. In his first [...]

Byline: Nat Ives Rupert Murdoch isn't the only billionaire conspicuously laying paw prints all over a major media property. Sam Zell hasn't been able to stay out of the news [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Last week, we learned that consumer confidence has hit a low, that employers last month cut jobs for the first time in more than four years, that [...]

Byline: Nat Ives The magazine business presented its highest honors last week to Tina Brown, the former editor of titles including The New Yorker and Talk, and Jack Kliger, president-CEO [...]

Byline: nat ives Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer to buy Yahoo indirectly added $6 billion to AOL's value, if Time Warner were to sell it off. But a deal may shrink [...]

Byline: NAT IVES Some of the country's biggest magazine publishers teamed up with New York last week for a campaign enthusiastically called ReMix, for 'Recycling Magazines Is Excellent!'' It's just [...]