 |  [Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] In the very competitive magazine world, you must take action or die - which is why FHM's successful former editor, Brendan Cooper, has been brought back from management to the editor's seat. Cooper tells Bizcommunity how he's going to put the magazine back on track, how the readership has changed and why the lad-mag era is over.
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 |  [Herman Manson: @marklives] High Life, the much applauded inflight magazine of British Airways, is getting a localised edition for BA-operated Comair. The new magazine replaces Horizons - Comair's previous inflight title, published by Media24. The contract was awarded to Omnicom-owned content marketing firm Cedar Communications UK and the first edition appeared 1 April 2012.
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|  [Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] The latest Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figures - for the last quarter of 2011 that were released in Cape Town recently - told a grim story for newspapers but, curiously, the magazines are faring better.
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 | [Roshila Jarosz: @Lipika777] Both Cleo and Top Billing magazines are set to go to print with their last editions, Bizcommunity.com has confirmed. Meanwhile, Media24 will be launching an "international weekly news and fashion magazine". |
|  [Herman Manson: @marklives] The recent repositioning of business magazine Finweek has upped the stakes in what many consider a rather stale magazine segment. Not that a lot isn't happening in the business press, or that it isn't already highly competitive - take the recent entry of Forbes Africa into the fray, or how the tablet market has opened up access to publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek to South African consumers.
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 | [Angelo Coppola: @angelo2711] I was paging through a couple of B2B (trade) magazines recently, having decided it was time to empty out our business postbox, and I was hugely disappointed and dismayed... the content remains generally unchanged and even the headlines look and read the same. |
 |  [Johann Smith] "Rolling Stone" - it was the writing on the wall found backstage at Rocking the Daisies. It was a hint, a secret, that the writer wanted musicians to know first, before anyone else. There is no way of saying it better: Rolling Stone magazine is coming to South Africa in November 2011. Johann Smith and Ruth Cooper of Bizcommunity.com's BizLounge speak to Miles Keylock, editor-in-chief of RS SA.
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|  [Herman Manson: @marklives] John Brown has quickly become a force to be reckoned with in the South African custom marketing field. It launched in 2007 with Pick n Pay as a client, producing its monthly food magazine, Fresh Living, which has since emerged as the bestselling food title in the country. Now, suddenly, it has grabbed Cell C, Edgars Club and Discovery Health in short succession, shaking up the local custom marketing industry.
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|  [Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] There's much afoot in the world of business and financial media with a restructuring of Media24's business division and disentangling of an integrated newsroom, while rival BDFM is going the opposite route and creating an integrated newsroom as a first step towards a paywall site. Recently appointed Finweek acting editor Marc Ashton tells Bizcommunity.com how the magazine is being repositioned to suit a younger market and why reports of retrenchments have been overstated.
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|  [Herman Manson: @marklives] Wine magazine, the wine-focused consumer monthly published by RamsayMedia, will be publishing its last edition in September 2011, after nearly 20 years in print. The magazine has only turned an annual profit three times in its existence.
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 | I just want to say to The Editor of WH, WELL DONE. I am a 29 year old female, employed and have started reading womens health mag since last year (the 2nd edition). I use to read competitor magazines (Cosmopolitan to be precise) and I did, for well over 6 years. My loyalty died as it no longer catered for my needs as a black woman. I was looking for an all in one stop shop and not a sex guide and repeated articles every month. I never gained anything new from it so I stopped buying magazines for 3 months. I found out about WH when I was reading my husbands MH and I thought let me try it out. And I have to say WOW! I was and still am blown away by the magazine, I dont even think twice about changing it to anything else. I have found my true friend and guide, from fashion,to health, gym, healthy eating, to sex, to beauty and career. What more could a girl ask for?
Keep up the good work. I really am happy about your achievement. And I am not suprised by it as I feel more and more Black women are looking for something that resonates with them in everything. I strongly believe the AMPS said it all. Well done! and to more successful years and readership...CHEERS!
From a proud reader. |
 | I like idea of affirming that being a good stay at home Mom/Dad is an "attractive role"' in today's overly aggressive and competitive world.Family values have really been forgotten.Its so refreshing from the norm of the cold hearted "Mantis" business woman that is so overdone in the media. Best wishes to the brand in SA. (hope im not sounding sexist! lol) |
 | Although, she probably thought it was ok (as do I) and let it through. After the backlash, she's trying to appease the masses.
It really doesn't scream "animal cruelty", it screams "possible everyday scenarios". People should get over themselves. There are more important things to worry about. Like lunch. Maybe thinking Chinese today. Hmmm... |
 | How can you, the editor, be shocked by an ad in her own magazine? Surely you must have seen the magazine before it went to print?
I bet you weren't too shocked to take the money for running the ad in the first place.
Astounding? Smacks of cowardice to me. |
 | I have had a relationship with this brand from the day I was born. I own two of their books. The Good Housekeeping Cookery Compendium - 1958 revised edition published by The National Magazine Co and Waverly Book Co and the New Step-by-Step Cookbook published in 1998 by Random House. They are constantly referred to. I buy the magazine when I can afford to from Woolworths. I cannot wait to buy my first SA published copy. |
| [Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] It may be an venerable brand overseas but Good Housekeeping is new to South Africa and it will be an interesting addition to the highly competitive women's general-interest magazines category. The mag's newly appointed editor Sally Emery tells Bizcommunity.com what will distinguish it in the market place and why its SA publisher, Associated Magazines, is doing it in English and Afrikaans. |
 | Hopefully not Evita Bezhuidenhout. |
|  [Herman Manson: @marklives] Visi is one of a handful of truly iconic South African magazines. It has always prided itself in superior design and production values, as well as a quirkiness that resonated with many South Africans. For a while now, though, the public seems to have been less enamoured with the magazine as seen in its declining circulation in recent years.
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 |  [Chris Moerdyk: @chrismoerdyk] About 29 years ago, in a tiny little town in backwoods South Africa, a five-year old kid got hold of an exercise book and started pasting in cut-out pictures of cars he had gleaned from throwaway magazines. Today, all these years later, he's still doing it. Except now he's not filling up old exercise books but rather something a lot more glossy. It's called Car magazine and that five-year-old car nut is its new editor.
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