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The mystery of why deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius is leaving Time is solved: He's the new editor in chief of Harvard Business Review. The Boston-based title has been without a top editor since last summer, when Tom Stewart quietly resigned.
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Nearly two weeks after Christie Hefner announced plans to step down as CEO of Playboy Enterprises, insiders at the company are still puzzled by exactly what it means. But they do have some theories.
A rare bit of good media news: It seems as if Time magazine's holiday cookie budget escaped the Time Inc. cutbacks. Sweet!
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Photo by Sean Driscoll; cookies by Veronica's Treats.
At last, Jeff Bewkes is the man.
Time Warner just named Bewkes chairman, confirming that the current occupant of that post, Dick Parsons, will step down on Dec. 31. Bewkes became CEO of the media conglomerate in January; an out clause in his contract would have allowed him to walk away had he not been made chairman by the start of 2009.
Some may have thought that pairing the politically minded Arianna Huffington with a Gen-X actor/entrepreneur like Ashton Kutcher didn't make sense—particularly for a Q&A focused on the future of digital entertainment.
Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) chairman and CEO Don Graham says the company will look at every opportunity "that walks in the door." Keep the word "look" in mind when it comes to big spending, though, because Graham also made it clear to investors at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference that he isn't betting the ranch: "We would borrow to buy a great asset ... Given the properties that we own, we wouldn't drown them in debt.
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- UBS Mutual Funds Securities Trust: UBS Enhanced Nasdaq-100 Fund
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CEO: Precipitous decline in revenue, touch economy, credit crisis to blame.
From Tribune's Chapter 11 filing, some of the media-related creditors Tribune owns money to, besides the big banks:
Tribune has sent out a letter to its advertisers across newspaper, TV and other publishing outlets, trying to assure them about its Chapter 11 filing and its hopes to come out restructured on the other end. From the letter, some key points:
