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Friday, November 29, 2002 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Publishing Industry Soundbytes Launches and Redesigns | Miscellaneous People · Rhona Murphy has joined Newsweek magazine as associate publisher, director of international sales, Executive Vice President and Worldwide Publisher Greg Osberg announced. In her new position, Murphy will oversee advertising sales for Newsweek's International sales offices. Murphy comes to Newsweek from the Dow Jones Company, where she was the managing director for North America for Dow Jones International, overseeing sales from the U.S. into the international editions of The Wall Street Journal. · Two veteran broadcast journalists, Mike Stein and Rob Sunde, have formed a senior editorial board of Medialink Worldwide Incorporated, a provider of news and media services for professional communicators. They will join Lidj Lewis, Medialink's vice president of media relations, as founding members of the Company's editorial board, which will formally set journalistic standards and evaluate the quality of projects for clients of the Company's television and radio divisions. Stein, former editorial producer and chief writer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, has won numerous prestigious journalism awards, including those administered by the Headline Club and the Overseas Press Club. Sunde's experience encompasses both television and radio, including previous senior positions with CBS Evening News, CBS Radio, ABC Radio and CNBC. · Vivendi Universal announced that Daniel Scolan has been appointed Executive Vice President Investor Relations of Vivendi Universal, reporting to the Senior Executive Vice President and CFO, Jacques Espinasse. Mr. Scolan replaces Laura Martin. Investor Relations are managed for Europe and the rest of the world by Laurence Daniel, IR Director in Paris, and for USA by Eileen Mc Laughlin, IR Director in New York. · VNU, an international media and information company, announced that Mr. Koen van Zijl joined the Corporate Communications department on November 18, 2002. As Deputy Director of this department, he will have worldwide responsibility for VNU's media relations as of February 1, 2003. In this position he will report to Rob de Meel, Director Corporate Communications / Investor Relations. He will succeed Maarten Schikker, who will stand back for health reasons. Maarten Schikker will continue to work as Manager Public Affairs in the department. Previously, Koen van Zijl worked as Director Public Relations & Public Affairs at KPNQwest and as a PR and PA Consultant at Hill & Knowlton Nederland. · Tribune Company announced that James Ellis has been named to the newly created position of vice president/brand management. In this role he will be responsible for building increased consumer awareness of Tribune's media operations and for coordinating group activities in marketing and promotion. Ellis served as synergy coordinator for Tribune Company from 1997 to 1999. And in 1992, he was part of the team that launched CLTV, Tribune's first 24-hour local cable news channel. Since May 2000, Ellis has coordinated broadcasting group operations in addition to marketing and creative services. Previously he served as vice president/creative services for Tribune Broadcasting where he was responsible for the promotion and marketing activities for the 24-station TV group. · Knight Ridder announced that it has named James Asher, metro investigations editor at The Baltimore Sun, to head its new investigative team in Knight Ridder's Washington Bureau. The company also named Stephen Henderson, associate editor of The Sun's editorial page, as its new legal affairs correspondent. Asher worked at The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1982 to 1994 in its Trenton bureau, as an investigative reporter and a business reporter, and as the Chester County editor. He was city editor of The Baltimore Sun for six years, and since 2000 has been metro editor for enterprise and projects. Digital Publishing · Sony Pictures Entertainment has formed the Digital Policy Group, a new corporate level organization designed to address the challenges and opportunities arising with the digital distribution of entertainment product, it was announced by Yair Landau, Vice-Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Beth Berke, Chief Administrative Officer and Executive Vice President of Sony Pictures, will lead this new corporate organization to facilitate SPE's migration to a world of secure digital formats, delivery systems and networked devices. Content Deals · R.R. Donnelley, a printer of telephone directories, has entered into a long-term contract with Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages, Inc., Ameritech Publishing, Inc. and SNET Information Services, Inc. to print telephone directories for these SBC Communications Inc. directory companies. Under the terms of the agreement, R.R. Donnelley will continue to print directories through 2015 for Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages and Ameritech Publishing. In addition, R.R. Donnelley will print SNET Information Services directories in 2005 through 2015. During this period, it is projected that R.R. Donnelley will print more than 700 titles and 87 million copies per year. Launches and Redesigns · Golfer's Guide, which produces 26 regional golf publications across the country, has launched a new website - golfersguidetravel.com - that highlights golf-related travel to top destinations across the country. The site joins golfersguide.com as the Internet presence for Golfer's Guide, which is owned by Frey Media and headquartered in Hilton Head Island, SC. At its launch, the site features 10 U.S. destinations, providing information on hundreds of public, resort and private golf courses in those areas. In addition, the site will offer information on accommodations, dining, events and additional attractions in each region. · The Bomb Project is a new online compendium of nuclear-related links, imagery and documentation. The Bomb Project is intended specifically as a resource for artists, and encourages those working in all media, from net.art, film and video, eco-intervention and site-specific installation to more traditional forms of agitprop, to use this site to search for raw material. The Bomb Project has gathered together links to nuclear image archives (still and moving), historical documents, current news, NGOs and activist organizations as well as government labs and arms treaties. The Bomb Project is inspired by the basic tenets of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). The FAS was founded in 1945 by the members of the Manhattan Project, who produced the first atomic bomb; it is the oldest organization dedicated to ending the global arms race and to achieving complete nuclear disarmament. Miscellaneous · Three-quarters of national advertisers say they will reduce spending on television as a result of ad-skipping on personal video recorders (PVRs), based on a recent email survey of national advertisers conducted by Forrester Research, Inc. and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). Of those who would cut spending, 75 percent would cut their budget for commercials by at least 21 percent, and 26 percent said they would chop more than 40 percent off of their budgets. · The Chicago Tribune has announced the purchase of the Printers Row Book Fair from the Near South Planning Board. The Fair -- the largest free outdoor literary event in the Midwest -- drew more than 75,000 book lovers to the two-day showcase in 2002. The Printers Row Book Fair was founded in 1985 to attract visitors to the Printers Row neighborhood (once the city's bookmaking hub). By 2002, it had grown to five city blocks (on Dearborn, from Congress to Polk), attracting more than 170 booksellers from across the country displaying new, used and antiquarian books, and featuring six stages with more than 80 free literary programs. The 2003 Printers Row Book Fair is scheduled for June 7 and 8, with the Near South Planning Board Literary Dinner slated for June 5. The Literary Dinner kicks off the Fair, and since 1989 has been the forum for presenting the Harold Washington Literary Award, given to an author who creatively uses the written word to address issues of contemporary life. Past recipients include Grace Paley, August Wilson, Robert Pinsky and Studs Terkel. · In a special newspaper-university partnership, The New York Times is working with some of the nation's historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) to develop a New York Times Student Journalism Institute at Dillard University in New Orleans. The highly competitive program will accept up to 30 promising undergraduate journalists from the colleges. Veteran journalists from The Times newsroom and selected HBCU faculty members will work with students in an intensive two-week residency program at the campus. Instrumental to the program is the Black College Communication Association, an organization of faculty members committed to developing strong journalism programs at historically black colleges and universities. Selection of students for the Institute will be based on academic achievement; commitment to journalism; writing, editing or photographic ability; and faculty recommendations. 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