Edit and oversee ideas for Harvard Business Publishing

Harvard Business Publishing is looking for an executive editor of ideas in Watertown, Massachusetts.
The editor will report to the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review Group and oversee "the discovery, acquisition and development of content ideas" for all of its publications including its Web site, magazine and books. The selected applicant will also:

• Supervise the organization's 12 Idea Teams and editorial staff to ensure they produce quality ideas and content.
  
• Edit and work with editors to plan content.
  
• Keep up to date on developments in business and management.
  

Candidates should have at least 10 years' experience in business journalism at a publication with tight deadlines. They should also have at least five years' experience managing journalists and editors and coordinating coverage.

To learn more about the job and apply online, visit here.

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Write books on business for Atlantic Publishing Company

The Atlantic Publishing Company is looking for freelancers to write books on subjects including business, investing, finance, real estate and Internet/technology.
The freelancer would be paid project to project and can live anywhere in the United States.
To apply, send your resume and a writing sample to Amanda Miller at amiller@atlantic-pub.com
View the job posting here.

Washington Post Co. loses nearl $20 million in quarter

The Washington Post Company released its quarterly results Friday, which showed that the company lost $19.2 million in the quarter, according to The New York Times.

The newspaper division reported an operating loss of $54 million. And to punctuate that unit's decline, cable TV revenue overtook publishing for the first time. Now newspapers bring The Washington Post Co. less revenue than either cable or Kaplan education services, two units that have helped shield the company from the publishing industry's woes. The Washington Post Co. had seen nine straight quarters of declining profit before the loss this time around.

The year-over-year decline in revenue was due largely to a decrease in ad revenue of 33 percent, a figure that has not been uncommon for other large newspaper companies so far in 2009.
However, while most other companies are seeing online ad revenue increases in the general range of 10 percent, the Washington Post Co. posted an 8 percent loss in the category.
To read more, click here.

Beyond the big guns

The New York Post highlights business-themed magazines that are sometimes overshadowed by big players like Fortune, BusinessWeek and Condé Nast Portfolio.
Here's a sampling from their report:

• Black Enterprise: The magazine, which focuses on the rich and soon-to-be-rich, has almost 1 million readers and is one of publishing's great success stories, according to the report. It recently got a makeover and includes stories on politics, business and news. For example, the magazine covered the $11.6 million award to Anucha Browne Sanders, who won a sexual harassment settlement from Knicks Coach Isiah Thomas.

• Dealmaker:The New York Post says Dealmaker is a magazine for investment bankers who want to read about great they are and how much society loves them. The magazine recently featured Tom Perkins, 75, who still buys $500,000 cars and yachts.

To read the full report click here.

Prosper Out of Print

California-based Propser, a monthly magazine for the greater Sacramento market focusing on capturing "the entrepreneurial spirit of the people and organizations who are flourishing," is taking what seems to have become the path of choice in today's startup publishing market. The company is halting its print publication, laying off employees and taking time to ponder...can you guess what? Yes, they are considering online initiatives as a way to continue the Prosper brand.
Get more details on the changes in a video message here.

The Atlantic Monthly is now just The Atlantic

The Atlantic Monthly is officially dropping "monthly" and now calling itself The Atlantic, according to the New York Post's Keith Kelly.
Kelly says the change comes after the magazine decided to publish just 10 times each year and also move its sales and marketing staff from Washington DC to New York.
The magazine's name dates back to 1857, the year of The Atlantic Monthly's first issue.
The idea for the magazine came after Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russel Lowe, Oliver Wendell Homes met in Boston's Parker House for a summit.
The group wanted a magazine that had a distinctly American voice and would promote the "American Idea." That, they decided, was The Atlantic Monthly.
For Kelly's full report on the changes at the magazine click here.

Can Murdoch save newspapers?

Diane Mermigas, Editor-at-large at MediaPost, contemplates today about Rupert Murdoch's ability to save newspapers now that he has The Wall Street Journal in his hands. Mermigas says Murdoch's advantage is that he understands and embraces the notion of a global media landscape. He is able to envision possible digital applications of many currently undervalued, and often overlooked, assets.
While many publishers are expected to post a decline in revenues for the year, "News Corp.’s newspaper holdings are growing profits better than 25% annually to more than $650 million on $4.5 billion in revenues (and a 15% margin). It must be doing something right."
Read more from Mermigas here.

Tribune's revenue down

The Tribune Company is reporting a drop in revenues for November. Publishing revenues were down 3.5 percent. Advertising revenues also took a hit, with much of the newspaper division hit by a 26.2 percent drop in classified advertising revenues.
According to the release, "Real estate fell 39.8 percent with the most significant declines in Chicago, the Florida markets, and Los Angeles. Help wanted declined 28.4 percent and automotive decreased 7.6 percent."
On a positive note: publishing operating expenses decreased in large part because of lower newsprint, compensation and marketing cash expenses.
For the full breakdown and short-term plans/projections, click here.