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Harrison G. Otis
Otis purchased the Los Angeles Times in 1886 just as the city was experiencing a population boom. Otis contributed to the population boom by actively promoting the city’s business opportunities in the Times. In addition, Otis was instrumental in the establishment of... View Details
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Adolph S. Ochs
A consummate newspaperman, Ochs reported the news without sensationalism in his first paper, the Chattanooga Daily Times and then in his second, The New York Times. He swiftly turned The New York Times around. When he bought it in 1896, it only had a circulation of... View Details
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Conde M. Nast
Nast transformed his first magazine, Vogue, from a low revenue and low readership publication into a premier fashion magazine that generated millions in revenues. Such turnarounds were typical of most Nast publications, including Glamour and Home and Garden. In... View Details
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Donald C. McGraw
McGraw initiated a period of diversification and expansion for McGraw-Hill, moving beyond book and magazine publishing. He orchestrated the successful acquisition of three industry reference sources: Standard & Poor’s Corporation, F. W. Dodge Corporation, and... View Details
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Edward T. Lewis
Lewis was publisher of Essence Magazine, the first black high-fashion magazine. First published in 1970, the magazine had a circulation of 850,000 by 1988. With the magazine as its base business, Essence Communications has successfully expanded into other media... View Details
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Walter H. Annenberg
Annenberg built a fledgling, debt-burdened newspaper business into a publishing empire. He introduced Seventeen in 1944 – sparking a new trend in targeted publications to America’s youth. In 1953, he overcame numerous logistical challenges to launch TV Guide, combining... View Details
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Robert S. Abbott
Abbott, the son of slave parents, created the Chicago Defender in 1905 with a total capitalization of twenty-five cents. By 1921, the Defender became a national newspaper, with 70 employees and a plant valued at nearly a half million dollars. Abbott became one of... View Details
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Research Links - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
others. This stunning group of black and white gelatin silver prints and color images was originally displayed in a 1934 exhibit sponsored by the National Alliance of Art and Industry (NAAI) and The Photographic Illustrators, Inc. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
of newspapers and magazines. And yet, as print ads flee online for pennies on the dollar — and newsprint prices jump while circulation and newsstand sales slump — these enterprises have never seen their financial prospects dim so rapidly.... View Details
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Bloomberg: five useful shortcuts
Display list of previous 8 functions Type LAST and hit GO. Make selection from list to rerun a function. Add or remove news at bottom of panel Type NO and hit GO to toggle scrolling news on and off. Print Hit View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
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Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
Marie Schwartz (MBA 1985) is founder and CEO of TeenLife Media, which produces online and print directories of STEM, gap year, pre-college, overnight summer, and community service programs for students in grades 7 through 12. In this... View Details
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S&P RatingsDirect
title="">Creditweek print publications available back to the 1980s (except 1991-1993). RatingsDirect offers: Access to Standard & Poor's extensive database of global and public credit ratings, and research More than... View Details
DeWitt Wallace
After his idea for a magazine with condensed articles for time starved readers was rejected by several New York publishers, Wallace borrowed money from his family and launched Reader’s Digest from his basement apartment in 1921. Reader’s Digest was eventually published... View Details
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Dorothy Schiff
Schiff was instrumental in the growth and prosperity of the New York Post. While she initially used the publication to promote her liberal viewpoints, she eventually moved the newspaper to a middle ground position. She initiated the sensationalist style that has been a... View Details
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Generoso P. Pope, Jr.
Pope transformed a small New York-based newspaper called the Enquirer into the second largest publication in the United States. In 1972, Pope radically altered the publication's format and content to highlight sensational and inspirational stories. While The National... View Details
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Samuel I. Newhouse
At the age of 26 with $600 borrowed from his relatives, Newhouse bought his first local newspaper, the Staten Island Advance. Over the next five decades, Newhouse would amass a communications giant including a collection of 22 local newspapers, 6 television stations, 5... View Details
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Harold W. McGraw, Jr.
Under his leadership, McGraw became the largest publisher of trade magazines and newsletters in the United States, accounting for 30% of its sales. In addition, McGraw-Hill published 20,000 different books a year, ranking as the largest publisher of textbooks in the... View Details
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Patrick J. McGovern
Beginning as a market researcher, McGovern created Computerworld in 1967 as a vehicle to bring together computer manufacturers and their prospective customers. With the rapid success of this publication, McGovern went on to publish more than 60 magazines and trade... View Details
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Henry R. Luce
Luce created a publishing empire. He launched the weekly Time in 1923, which was followed by the introduction of Fortune in 1930, Life in 1936, and Sports Illustrated in 1954. Luce also presided over a vast communications empire, which included eight radio and... View Details
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John H. Johnson
Johnson built the world’s largest black-owned publishing empire. He is the founder and publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony and JET magazines. He also owns Ebony Cosmetics as well as radio and TV production companies. View Details
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