Friday, July 26, 2013

MediaPost Mag Bag

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/205340/mag-bag-penton-acquires-aviation-week.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediadailynews+%28MediaPost+|+MediaDailyNews%29&utm_content=Netvibes#axzz2a5dKHkNy
Penton Media has acquired Aviation Week and all its related assets from McGraw Hill Financial, the companies announced Wednesday. The acquisition includes Aviation Week’s events, data, digital and media products. Terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed. 
Aviation Week reaches an audience of around 1.2 million aviation professionals around the world, according to McGraw Hill. The acquisition complements Penton’s Aviation Group, which includes Air Transport World, SpeedNews, Aircraft Bluebook, Air Charter Guide, Airportdata.com and Ac-U-KWIK.
Last week McGraw Hill Financial announced that Harold McGraw III will be stepping down from his position as CEO effective November 20 of this year. He is being replaced by Douglas Peterson, who currently serves as president of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service.
The Alliance for Audit Media (formerly known as the Audit Bureau of Circulations) is offering smaller publishers a new, streamlined audit option that allows them to choose what basic metrics they would like reported, according to Folio:. The new offering is only available to publishers of titles with circulations under 100,000.
Daniel Strauss has been named general manager for digital at The Hollywood Reporter.
Becca Gildred has been promoted to marketing director for Down East Enterprise, the publisher of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, Shooting Sportsman and Fly Rod & Reel.