Print advertising continues on it's downward spiral.

The MPA hosted its annual American Magazine Media Conference in New York this week and closed the show with “A View From The Top.” While it was interesting to sit in and listen to the heads of five powerhouse-publishers discuss the future of their companies and the industry at large, it didn’t speak to the entire magazine publishing sector.

At our February 25 minsider breakfast, from 8:30 - 10:00 a.m., you'll hear how publishers and agencies are building sustainable content studios to work with brands, and forging new kinds of advertiser partnerships that have different revenue models and clearly delineated divisions of labor.  

Rolling Stone will soon leverage its archive, like many other legacy brands already have. In this instance, the brand is teaming up with Google Play in order to offer every issue of the magazine—dating back 47 years—in a digital format.

The Jan.28 acquisition by Meredith Corp. of Shape from American Media Inc. (AMI), and its absorption of Meredith National Media Co.'s Fitness print edition, resulted in personnel announcements from MNMC Women's Lifestyle Group president Tom Witschi.

On Jan. 23, Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp initiated the latest in the series of corporate restructurings that reflect what a spokesperson told the New York Post was the continued "re-engineering of  our business, including rightsizing in some areas and investing in others."

Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp moved Entertainment Weekly editor Matt Bean to the new position of corporate senior VP of editorial innovation after only one year on the job.

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Aerial Brown, who was Entertainment Weekly senior associate photo editor since Aug. 2012, is joining Harper's Bazaar as deputy photography director on Feb 17.

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On Jan. 7, Athlon Media Group/Parade  president and CEO Chuck Allen announced the hire of Parade editor-in-chief Anne Krueger. She fills the four-month vacancy that followed AMG's Sept. 17, 2014, acquisition of the Sunday newspaper magazine from the Newhouse family-owned Advance Publications (also the parent company of Condé Nast).