GM overview

Portfolio.com has a great overview of General Motors Corp. including:

• Its chief executive officer and contact information
• Recent news on the company
• The number of employees at G.M. and revenue per employee
• Quarterly and annual financial information
• Stock information

View the overview here.

The recession interactive

Portfolio.com, despite its rocky road to survival over the past few months, hasn't faltered in creating outstanding interactive media covering business. Its packages have simplified recent economic issues and put them into context in a clear, visual way.
Take the interactive multimedia with Band-Aids for the Ailing Economy, for example. Portfolio staff created a comprehensive timeline from 1860 to 2008 showing fluctuations in the nation's gross domestic product, wars, financial crises, house majority and major government regulations on the banking industry. This piece not only displays the nuances of what contributes to a faltering economy, but puts today's recession into context in America's financial history.
This multimedia feature achieves what all business coverage should-it takes vast amounts of complex data and facts and serves it to users in comprehensible, chewable pieces.
Some other Portfolio interactive pieces to check out:
Wall Street's Graveyard, Brother, Can You Spare $2?, The Green Miles, Subprimal Headquarters, and False Starts. The graphic Uncle Sam's Growing Portfolio is also worth a look.

To see Portfolio's interactive features section, click here.

More details on Portfolio.com revival

Wednesday's announcement has people talking about the reincarnation of Portfolio.com in the hands of American City Business Journal's Bizjournals.com.
Under the new rule, the site will employ five editorial staffers with Portfolio.com managing editor, Josh Moss as the lead.
But full control, including editorial power, will be with ACBJ to give Portfolio a "stronger focus on industry news", said Tim Bradbury, president of ACBJ.
Portfolio.com will also have unique access to local markets and ACBJ newsrooms across the country.
Group president of Condé Nast, David Carey, noted that the chain of American City Business Journal weeklies would benefit from Portfolio.com's "long tail" of traffic.

Portfolio.com relaunches

Condé Nast's Portfolio.com will have a new place to call home this July when it moves to American City Business Journals Inc.'s Bizjournals.com.
Bizjournals will oversee the editorial and business sides of the site from New York, Condé Nast and American City Business Journals announced Wednesday.
From the story:

"In addition to newly created content, Portfolio.com will share content with other Condé Nast sites such as Wired.com, GolfDigest.com, and WWD.com, as it did before. It also will be the home of the archives of content published by Portfolio’s print and digital properties over the past 24 months."

See the full story here.

Wired: editorial success and ad failure

An article in today's The New York Times details the challenges faced by Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired magazine.
On one hand, the magazine has been a success editorially under Anderson's leadership. Wired won three National Magazine Awards last month.
But the story details how the magazine has lost 50 percent of its ad pages this year, a number that ranks it "among the worst off of the more than 150 monthly magazines measured by Media Industry Newsletter. Only Portfolio, which Condé Nast shut down last month, and Power and Motoryacht fared worse."
To read the full story click here.