Well, after the speculation, Press Gazette has now confirmed it is killing its weekly edition and going monthly from August 28. The mag will become “features-led” with an average 64…

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South-of-England news publisher Archant saw digital income in the last six months was 63 percent on the same period last year to an unstated figure - but the overall picture…

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Elle publisher Hachette Filipacchi has given acting digital director Anna Jones the role permanently, but has combined it with her previous head of marketing role - the same thing Absolute…

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-- Mygazines: Little surprise here. Mygazines, a site that encourages magazine readers to scan and share pages from their favourite reads, is being dimly viewed by the Periodical Publishers Association…

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Is this what happens when your business model is based entirely on free, ad-supported content? Sales at European freesheet publisher Metro International fell 8.6 percent to €81.5 million in the…

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High street newsagent John Menzies is taking Sarah Clegg, commercial director of digital magazine distributor Zinio, to be the new MD of its digital division. There’s plenty of synergy here…

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-- Music Trade News: ToyNews and CasualGaming.biz publisher Intent Media has bought Music Trade News from from publisher MB Media, and will merge it with its own Musical Instruments Professional…

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-- ITN Games: The UK newsgatherer’s ITN On multimedia division is now doing contract online news production on a web-and-mobile video show for Cranberry Publishing’s Gamerzines.com, a host of free…

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Some of our biggest media names are culling their ad sales staff, in what could be a sign of precipitous economic times ahead… -- Sky Media: The broadcaster’s ad sales…

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This takes me back. Conde Nast is to resurrect the UK version of its Wired science and digital culture magazine - 11 years after it shut the operation. Jewish Chronicle…

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-- Dennis: Dennis Publishing will follow its Monkey digital magazine for men with a motoring title, iMotor. Emailed fortnightly from July 17, the page-turner will, like Monkey, include in-page videos.…

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-- News Magazines: News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is closing its News Magazines unit, which publishes the LoveIt women’s mag and BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) customers’ SkyMag, after losing almost £10 million…

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Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) has confirmed to us our earlier report it has been licensed to start providing online magazine-type content to Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation Network. “Qore”, a monthly…

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Will John Menzies Digital’s new e-magazine download service prove a lifeline for dwindling subscriptions of glossy magazines? The joint venture between Scottish distribution firm John Menzies and French publishing giant…

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The Welsh Books Council can’t be accused of being a bunch of luddites—not at least since they decided to award the publishers of Golwg a £200,000 three-year grant, reports icWales.co.uk.…

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Zmags, which makes software for publishing interactive content, has raised a $4.2 million second round from OpenView Venture Partners. The Denmark-based company has now raised a total of $7 million.…

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Private equity firms are said to be interested in Informa, the publishing and events giant. Timesonline.co.uk reports that PE firms Apax and Carlyle are said to be interested in acquiring…

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-- Player X/Paramount: Mobile media producer Player X has been enlisted by Paramount Mobile Entertainment to produce games and short video series based on its formts, C21 reports, calling the…

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Comment of the day, at the end of the Periodical Publishers Association’s Magazines 2008 conference, must go to Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) CEO Stevie Spring, in a panel of 10…

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French media giant Lagardere reported earnings for the three months ending 31 March 2008 on Tuesday. Consolidated revenues for the entire group were down 4 percent to 1.8 billion euros…

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Celeb magazine Hello!’s website is to start beaming daily star gossip to mobiles via SMS and MMS. The text message will include a wrap of headlines from the accompanying website…

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Sanoma Magazines, the European magazine and online publisher, is continuing on its acquisition streak, this time in Bulgaria: it has bought 68 percent stake in NetInfo.BG, one of the bigger…

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Magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi, which bought TV and broadband news and community site DigitalSpy this month, promises concerned forum users it won’t change the site following the acquisition, says new…

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-- Hello: Before Gawker, folks got their celebrity gossip from the likes of Hello magazine. The distinction may now be clear that Hello treats long-form features best while blogs excel…

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B2B publisher Centaur has finally gone public to confirm recent reports it’s cutting back its Mad.co.uk marketing news site. MD Tim Potter said new sites for Design Week and Marketing…

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