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“Always independent, relentlessly inquisitive, EMAP embodies quality, market-leading journalism. We act as the ultimate industry insider, and strive to always be the trusted authority. For our customers, EMAP provides the best possible way to connect with their world. We are their competitive advantage.” • Emap International Limited (Emap standing for East Midland Allied Press) is a British media company that specialises in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences. • The company is now owned by Apax and Guardian Media Group. • EMAP owns industry-leading brands that sit at the heart of business powerful B2B communities like Retail, Health, Construction, Architecture, Fashion and Media. • The company has expressed that their aim is to connect professional communities and inspire them to know, to grow, progress and win. • The company is in charge of 18 branded magazines including Retail Week, Broadcast, Shots, Construction News, Lighting, Health Service Journal and Nursing Times.
“Our business is built on influential media brands with millions of personal relationships with engaged readers and listeners. Our strategy is to connect audiences with excellent content through our broad multi-touch point brand platforms, wherever and whenever and however they want. Our wide portfolio of influential brands gives us advantages over pure play magazine or radio competitors.” • Bauer Media Group is a multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany which operates in 15 countries worldwide. • Worldwide circulation of Bauer Media Group's magazine titles amounts to 38 million magazines a week. • Bauer Media Group has a 50% stake in the British television company Box Television, the other half owned by Channel 4. • Box Television acts as the content subsidiary that produces several popular music television channels, which include Q TV, 4Music, Kerrang! TV, Magic TV, Smash Hits TV and The Box.
“IPC Media is committed to working in partnership with its consumers, advertisers, business partners and employees to deliver exceptional value, service, innovation and creativity.” • IPC Media is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. • With more than 60 iconic media brands, IPC creates content for multiple platforms, across print, online, mobile, tablets and events. • In April 2012 IPC Media scooped an award for Best Production Team of the Year at the Professional Publishers Association Production and Environment Awards 2012. • IPC Media is the UK's leading consumer magazine publisher, engaging with 26m UK adults - almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men. • Some of IPC Media’s current magazines include InStyle, Marie Claire, Look, Now, Pick Me Up, Woman’s Own, Smash!, Knockout, 2000 AD and Film Fun.
When did it begin? Rolling Stone is a magazine that is devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture. The US-based magazine, published every two weeks, was founded in 1967 in San Francisco, California. The magazine was founded by Jann Wenner who, to this day, is still the magazine’s chief editor. Music critic, Ralph J. Gleason also played a part in the creation of one of the most popular music magazines. Jann Wenner and Ralph J. Gleason John Lennon on the first ever edition of Rolling Stone Magazine – November 9th 1967
Wenner Media Incorporated has published the magazine from the very beginning. Who publishes it? Rolling Stone is published by Wenner Media. As well as being the co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner is also the current owner of Men’s Journal and US Weekly magazines. In addition, Wenner Media operates websites for its magazines. Jann Wenner of Wenner Media Incorporated owns not only Rolling Stone magazine, but also US Weekly and Men’s Journal.
Rolling Stone’s Mission Statement In recent years, the magazine has resumed its traditional mix of content, including in-depth political stories. It also has expanded content to include acclaimed coverage of financial and banking issues. “Rolling Stone goes beyond just taking the pulse of youth culture. Rolling Stone is the pulse of youth culture. Whether the subject is music, TV, movies or politics, over 12 million young Americans trust and turn to Rolling Stone every two weeks to keep them up to date on the subjects they care about most. Bold stories. Big interviews. Insightful commentary. All delivered with energy, passion, irreverence, and a point of view that defines its audience.” Jann Wenner, founder and chief editor of Rolling Stone magazine.
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Rolling Stone’s Awards • In 1986, David Black won an award for his reporting on the article, “The Plague Year” at the National Magazine Awards. • In 1998, John Colapinto won an award for his reporting on the article, “The True Story of John/Joan.” • In 2001, David Foster Wallace won an award for his feature writing in the article, "The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub.” • In 2004, Evan Wright won an award for his reporting on the article, “The Killer Elite.” • In 2006, James Bamford won an award for his reporting on the article, “The Man Who Sold the War.” • In 2011 the magazine was awarded their most prestigious award – The Polk Award for an article written about Barack Obama. Above is the award you receive when winning at the National Magazine Awards. Michael Hastings, the journalist who won the Polk Award for the Rolling Stone magazine.
Rolling Stone’s Other Media Outlets Rolling Stone has maintained a website for many years, with selected current articles, reviews, blogs, MP3s, and other features such as searchable and free encyclopaedic articles about artists, with images and sometimes sound clips of their work. The site also at one time had an extensive message board forum. By the late 1990s, the message board forum at the site had developed into a thriving community with a large number of regular members and contributors worldwide. The site was then plagued with numerous Internet trolls and malicious code-hackers who vandalized the forum substantially. Rolling Stone abruptly deleted the forum in May 2004. The magazine then began a new, much more limited message board community at their site in late 2005, only to remove it again in 2006. Rolling Stone also has a page on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Foursquare and Tumblr. In December 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that the owners of the magazine planned to open a Rolling Stone restaurant in the Hollywood & Highland Centre in Hollywood, California in the spring of 2010. According to its website, the restaurant is now open for lunch and dinner as well as a full night club downstairs on the weekends. The Rolling Stone website that has been running for a number of years. The magazine also has many social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
When did it begin? Billboard was founded in Cincinnati on November 1, 1894, by William h. Donaldson and James Hennegan. However the magazine was originally titled ’Billboard Advertising’ as it was a trade paper for the bill posting industry. Within a few years of its founding, it began to carry news of outdoor amusements, a major consumer of billboard space. Eventually Billboard became the paper of record for circuses, carnivals, amusement parks, fairs and other live entertainment. The magazine began coverage of motion pictures in 1909 and of radio in the 1920s. With the development of the jukebox industry during the 1930s, ‘The Billboard’ began publishing music charts. Originally, there were only three genre-specific charts: Pop, Rhythm & Blues, and Country & Western. In the 1950s it introduced a section covering the television industry, including ratings charts for programs. It continued to carry news of fairs, carnivals, theme parks and other outdoor entertainments until 1961 when these departments were spun off into a new weekly magazine called ’Amusement Business. ‘By this time the television coverage had also been moved to another publication. At the start of 1961, ’The Billboard’ was renamed ’Billboard Music Week.’ The publication was now devoted almost entirely to the music industry, with some coverage of coin-operated vending and entertainment machines on its jukebox pages. The title was changed to simply ‘Billboard’ at the start of 1963. The Billboard’s Hot 100 chart toppers in the week ending September 11th, 1960 and one of the first publications of the magazine.
Who publishes it? Billboard magazine is currently owned and being published by Prometheus Global Media. Prometheus Global Media is a diversified company with leading assets in the media and entertainment arenas, including: Music (Billboard and its related conferences and events, including The Billboard Latin Music Awards), Entertainment (The Hollywood Reporter, Backstage, ShowEast, Cineasia, and CineEurope); and Advertising & Marketing (Adweek, MediaWeek, Adweek Conferences and The CLIO Awards).
Billboard’s Mission Statement “Billboard defines success in the world of music. Building on its core strengths: access, authenticity, and credibility; Billboard is the authority in music entertainment. Key music, entertainment and consumer brand industry executives turn to Billboard each week for its exclusive charts, unparalleled news and insightful analysis across all music genres. Billboard is the only music publication that reaches this highly affluent and influential audience, who set the trends for pop culture.” Tommy Page, current publisher of Billboard magazine.
The Billboard Awards The Billboard Music Award is an honour given by Billboard magazine, the pre-eminent publication covering the music business. The Billboard Music Awards show had been held annually in December until it went dormant in 2007, but it returned in May 2011. Unlike other awards, such as the Grammy Award, which determine nominations as a result of the highest votes received, the Billboard Music Awards finalists are based on United States year-end chart performance number of downloads and total airplay. Awards were given for the top album/artist/single in different genres. Some of the awards presented are: • Top Artist of the Year • Top New Artist of the Year • Top Female Artist of the Year • Top Male Artist of the Year • Icon Award • Millennium Award Taylor Swift with her 3 Billboard awards in 2011. Stevie Wonder accepting the Icon Award in 2012. Katy Perry accepting the Woman of the Year Award in 2012. Beyonce accepting the Millennium Award in 2011.
Billboard’s Other Media Outlets Since August 4, 1958, the Hot 100 has been published, combining single sales and radio airplay. Billboard currently puts out over 100 charts each week, the most popular ones being Hot 100, Billboard 200, and Hot 100 Airplay. For many years, the weekly syndicated radio program American Top 40 played the top 40 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in reverse order; in late November 1991, it switched to using the top 40 portion of the Hot 100 Airplay chart. Later, in early 1993, it began using the Top 40 Mainstream chart until it temporarily went off the air in 1995. When the show returned in 1998, it no longer used Billboard charts as its source, instead relying on Mediabase charts based purely on radio airplay. The "Pop Songs" chart at Billboard.com displays chart entries from 1 through 20 as well as an archive of all top ten hits since the chart began. Billboard.com is one of the most successful and visited music websites to date. Billboard also has a Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.
