Condé Nast shoots November covers with Google's new Pixel 3 mobile

Condé Nast has appointed a new global leadership structure combining Condé Nast and Condé Nast International into a unified team. The new team will look out to keep local editorial voice and authority, unify the company’s ad and commercial sales functions and develop new ways to share capabilities and best practices across the company. 

George Green, former president and chief executive officer of Hearst Magazines International, died on Monday 5 August at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City from complications of pneumonia. He was 81.

With a history of more than 100 years in the UK’s magazine publishing industry, the PPA represents and supports almost 250 companies, including B2B and B2C publishers, data and information providers.

UK publisher Dennis has seen an increase in ticket sales since starting to use Evessio’s event management software.

For a long time lauded as the way to automate large parts of the industry, AI is, according to Lindsay Silver, VP of product at Condé Nast, finally coming of age – and AI 2.0 will have plenty to offer beyond simply taking tasks away from the editors.

Liz Vaccariello is editor-in-chief of Parents magazine at Meredith Corporation. Here, she explains how taking a practical approach to innovation has helped the brand to evolve, and why a digital mindset can also hold great benefits for a print publication. 

The first round of recipients of grants to fund community journalism, paid for by Facebook, was announced on 17 July with a second round of grants also announced in the US. While many are happy as grants of up to US$25,000 remain up for grabs, others remain skeptical about the social media giant’s intentions.

Cosmopolitan South Africa’s August cover star will be part of an exciting line-up of media and brand experts who will discuss the secrets of successful collaboration in spotlighting brands in magazine media at this month’s FIPP Insider events in South Africa.

On average global internet users spent 2 hours and 23 minutes on social media per day, though trends differed widely by country. In around half of the markets that Global Web Index surveyed, social media use had shrunk or plateaued in Q1 2019 when compared with 2018 figures.