{"id":18290,"date":"2010-09-28T09:50:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T16:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18290"},"modified":"2010-09-29T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T17:44:12","slug":"bonnier-stirs-things-up-in-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18290","title":{"rendered":"Bonnier Stirs Things Up In Print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bonnier_corp_logo-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bonnier_corp_logo-1.jpg','popup','width=206,height=64,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bonnier_corp_logo-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"62\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bonnier Corp Logo-1\" \/><\/a>Seems the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bonniercorp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bonnier Corporation<\/a><\/strong> (overlords of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/transworld.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Media<\/a><\/strong>) is switching up nearly everything this month.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnier management <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/2010\/editorial-director-out-bonnier-parenting-group-restructuring\" target=\"_blank\">canned the editorial director<\/a><\/strong> at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parenting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parenting Group<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/2010\/bonnier-overhauls-gardening-title-s-staff-design\" target=\"_blank\">moved their Garden Design magazine offices to New York City<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17652\" target=\"_blank\">rebranded Wakeboarding<\/a><\/strong> as <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/wakeboardingmag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Wakeboarding<\/a><\/em><\/strong> magazine, and more importantly, eliminated three positions in the Carlsbad, California offices including the publisher of <em>Transworld Skateboarding<\/em> magazine, a job held by 11-year Transworld veteran <strong>Jamey Stone<\/strong>. Transworld Group Publisher <strong>Liam Ferguson<\/strong> explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TransWorld Media recently made a very small reduction in its workforce in an effort to cut costs, offset expenses and strategically plan for future initiatives that are currently in line for the company,&#8221; Ferguson said in an email. &#8220;In order to ensure the ongoing success of TransWorld Media, these tough decisions with our TransWorld Family were made so we can continue to provide an exceptional level of service to our audience, advertisers, and existing employees.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hard times, hard decisions. Jamey&#8217;s deep knowledge of skateboarding and dedication to authenticity is reportedly already being missed at the company. And, as most media companies are being forced to adjust staff sizes to meet new economies realities, the question many have is who will be next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems the Bonnier Corporation (overlords of Transworld Media) is switching up nearly everything this month. Bonnier management canned the editorial director at the Parenting Group, moved their Garden Design magazine offices to New York City, rebranded Wakeboarding as Transworld Wakeboarding magazine, and more importantly, eliminated three positions in the Carlsbad, California offices including the publisher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18347,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290\/revisions\/18347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}