A Crikey reader wrote in suggesting a competition for the lamest local angle on the royal wedding story, offering up his nomination with this piece of purple prose. Got any vomit-worthy contributions?
ACP Magazines
Media briefs: Is Telstra Smart? … the psychic croc …
As tipped by Crikey yesterday, Telstra is getting into the old-media publishing business with a new magazine for small to medium business owners — Smarter Business Ideas. The Age’s study in irony and other media news.
RIP Ralph, where lads used to learn a thing or two
A by-word for B-grade celebrities in bikinis and coarse blokey humour, Ralph magazine breathed its last VB-scented breath last week. Former writer Jason Mountney remembers when it was good.
Forget MasterChef: food, craft mags sink
The nation’s infatuation with home economics is yet to peculate through to magazine racks, as key titles continue to struggle.
Mags circulation figures: it’s not all bad news
Magazines aren’t dead yet! Some, in fact, are growing, with latest circulation figures showing that The Monthly’s readership is up over 17% in the last year.
Tips and rumours: Rudd staffers’ high-flying high-tech
More mile-high japes from Rudd and his team, insider news on The Chaser, rotten relations with female employees at ACP Mags, and more from Crikey’s terrific tipsters.
JP Morgan’s move on Consmedia
A surprise move by a big US investment bank and a group of hedge and investment funds associated with it in the share register of Consolidated Media Holdings, writes Glenn Dyer.
Aussie mags in crisis
ACP and Pacific are going to have to get used to the fact that many of their titles are now seen as disposable purchases by their readers, writes Glenn Dyer
What was left unsaid in reporting the Lewincamp defamation
The payout was big, but bigger was what the Lewincamp judgment said about the conduct of The Bulletin’s journalism, writes Jane Nethercote.
ACP magazines lead their sector in reader loss
It’s becoming clearer just how much private equity group CVC was taken to the cleaners by James Packer when he sold them 75% of PBL Media, writes Glenn Dyer.
