Publication has been suspended on Pregnancy, Baby and You magazine. In some ways this is unsurprising. Magicalia has acquired a number of parenting magazines in the last year and inevitably would pick out the weaker ones. However Pregnancy, Baby and You had developed enormously under the editorships of Claire Roberts and then Emma Hartfield. Let’s hope suspended does only mean suspended and it will be back soon.
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I have written a few articles in this blog recently about the ins and outs of running a community magazine. It is a subject that fascinates me. I have worked with several women who have done this and, as long as you don’t mind selling adverts, it is a great was to earn a good income from home. Mums returning from maternity leave are more and more looking at magazine franchises as a real home income opportunity. And of course, one of the things that most magazine owners enjoy is creating the content for their magazine.
Depending on your set up you may have free rein over the entire content, or have most or all of it supplied by the franchisor. If you have some input, or are setting up a magazine by yourself, you may wonder how best to fill your pages with gripping content that has readers retaining your magazine and passing it on to friends. Here are some tips to get you inspired: (more…)
Miranda Levy, formerly of Grazia, is the new editor of Mother and Baby Magazine. Kyrsty Hazell joins Junior as Editorial Assistant, always a good person to start with for your PR efforts.
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Mother and Baby magazine is now based at Bauer London Lifestyle, 4th Floor, Endeavour House, 189 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JG. Editorial assistant is Lucy Quick.
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If you want to promote your business, you need to know all about your target media. Magsite is a top site for keeping you updated on new publications and closures, and filling you in on the publishing industry. It is not a beautiful site, but you can’t beat the content. For more of the inside story, read what the media makers read at Press Gazette.
If you want to know how to get into Nursery Today, it’s quite simple. The magazine gives editorial space to advertisers.