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January 12, 2010
TransWorld Wants Its MTV and MTV Wants TransWorld
TransWorld Wants Its MTV and MTV Wants TransWorld For the first time ever, a TransWorld TV show will be hitting the airwaves on an MTV network in slots that the network considers prime time. But it’s even better than that: Not just one but two shows will air. TransWorld SNOWboarding and TransWorld SKATEboarding both have scored one-hour specials on MTV2.
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Parenting Goes to Washington!
Parenting Goes to Washington! This month, Parenting magazine takes its case for better schools to Capitol Hill. In the first major effort of its newly formed Mom Congress on Education and Learning initiative, the magazine will deliver thousands of names on a petition to Congress encouraging it to improve the No Child Left Behind legislation.
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Collaborative Effort Behind the Launch of Boatingmag.com
Collaborative Effort Behind the Launch of Boatingmag.com After more than six months of development efforts, Bonnier’s Boating has launched its new website, boatingmag.com. Boasting a terrific, modern new look, boatingmag.com includes video, editors’ blogs, photo galleries and contests. In the works for coming weeks are reader-interaction features such as polls, photo-posting Web pages and forums.
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Good Morning America Asks About the Future: PopSci Has the Answers
Good Morning America Asks About the Future: PopSci Has the Answers We all wonder about the future — the possibility of flying cars, eating all you want without gaining a pound, and even the Cubs winning the World Series. Will any of these happen in the new decade? ABC’s Good Morning America looked at the subject and went straight to the experts: Popular Science magazine. Take a look at this clip with a few predictions from Deputy Editor Jake Ward on what we can expect in the future. Sorry Cubs fans, no mention of your team winning.
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New from Consumer Marketing — Better Way to Target/Market to Subscribers
More than 11 million people subscribe to Bonnier titles, and the more we know about those subscribers the better we can keep them and market to them. That’s why a promising new initiative by the consumer marketing group is so important to all of us.

The Bonnier corporate database — including not only the 11 million active subscribers but also another 28 million who at one time had a subscription — has been enhanced with a wide variety of demographic and psychographic data.
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QUICK HITS
  • Bonnier website traffic is up 53% (overall for year)
  • 33 out of 39 websites are up year-to-year*
  • Standouts:
    • Saveur up 113% (1.6 million)
    • Parenting up 78% (7.2 million)
    • Outdoor Life up 61% (1.5 million)
    • Popular Science up 52% (7.4 million)
* We had only ’08 data for 39 of our sites
MOVERS
Zach Stovall
Zach Stovall
Steven Grune
Steven Grune
Zach Stovall was promoted to staff photographer for Bonnier. He formerly shot solely for Caribbean Travel + LifeSteven Grune has been named group director, sales and marketing for the Technology Group. He comes to us from Country Living, where he served as publisher … Joshua Rashkin joins us full time as web producer in Boulder … Sasha Emmons also moves to full time as senior editor for Parenting.com … Kevin Mayfield has been hired as print purchasing manager in Winter Park … Courtney Jones is the new sales assistant for Islands and Resorts & Great HotelsDavid Nordahl was tapped as the new Midwest advertising director for TransWorld. He is based in the Chicago office … Peter Fisher joins SKI and Skiing as sales manager in Los Angeles.
UP CLOSE
Jake Bogoch This week’s Up Close profile finds us on the slopes in Colorado for an entertaining chat with Jake Bogoch, editor-in-chief of Skiing. And when we say entertaining chat, we really mean it!
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CALENDAR
January 13
  • Concur Deadline: Earlier deadline for Concur reports for next week due to the MLK holiday
January 18
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Day – Company holiday
January 20-24
  • New York Boat Show will have a huge presence from Bonnier titles: Yachting, Boating and Motor Boating staff will be on site
BONNIER FACT
Did you know . . .
The female-to-male ratio for
Bonnier Corp. is
54% Female
46% Male
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