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Gruner + Jahr, the German publishing company that sold off its American magazines in 2005, has entered a bid for Reed Elsevier's b-to-b publishing arm, Reed Business Information.Bids for RBI, which ha

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FishbowlLA has an exclusive on who will be joining Jerry Seinfeld in Microsoft's new ad campaign.Our insider says the whole campaign is focused on 'everyday' people using Windows in real situations. S

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Barack Obama will be gracing the cover of Time...again. It's the seventh time this year the magazine has put the senator front and center (McCain has only got the call twice). Portfolio points to an

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Gail Collins and David Brooks are talking again and they're trying to avoid talking about politics. Says Gail Collins: Before the John Edwards affair recedes into history, should we discuss Lessons

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Wow. Is Random House secretly being run by a middle eastern government? Earlier this month it was announced that the publishing house giant was canceling a novel by American writer Sherry Jones abou

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The slow death of the shelter magazine category continues with today's announcement by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. that Home will suspend publication after its October issue.Jack Kliger, president

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Enjoy the next few days while you can, because starting Monday, or basically at whatever point Obama decides to personally tell us his VP pick, it's going to be all politics all the time from now unti

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With the Michael Phelps backlash in full swing, the world needs a new hero. Enter Usain Bolt, winner of the 100m and 200m races in record-breaking fashion.Virgin Media tapped the world's fastest man t

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Time is loading up its masthead just in time for round 10(?) of the years election season. The magazine has just announced that Mike Murphy, the GOP strategist, long-time friend and adviser of John M

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This month's Harper's features a takedown of Kaplan's SAT Advantage program written by Jeremy Miller, a former coach. The author, who spent nine years working on and off for the test prep company an

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