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A case history of TvTimes

It is my intention to review the editorial research carried out for TVTimes since 1968, and to attempt to assess how and where it contributed to the development of the magazine. In the six years of its life, TvTimes has changed in many ways and of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Alwyn Wise

June 15, 1974

Publishers, editors and researchers

Ergonomics is the study of the relationship between man and the machines or tools he uses. The ergonomics of market research tools and their users has been a neglected subject, however. Operational researchers, it is true, have occasionally joined...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Michael Bird

June 15, 1974

A radical approach to life style research in the definition of new publications and mass communication

This paper shows how a radically new approach to life style research can lead us to more effective and persuasive mass communications, and how to detect what kind of new publications will be viable and of high vitality.

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Authors: Michaël Burke, Bernard Cathelat

June 15, 1974

Editorial research in preparing a decision on the merger of two weeklies

A publisher sold two weekly magazines whose editorial content was different and whose readers were supposedly different both sociologically and psychologically. But economically it was no longer possible to continue publishing the two magazines...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Robert Gijs

June 15, 1974

How relative simple reader-panel methods yield valuable contributions to editorial policies (Part I)

For editorial policy it is important to estimate readers' appreciation of the contents. The panel method is one way of sounding the readers and getting a contribution to the editorial policy. In this paper we will present experiences and examples...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: F. T. M. van der Staay

June 15, 1974

In what way does the quantitative "mix" of subject-matter pre-determine sales and readership profiles?

The quantitative mix of a publication's editorial matter undoubtedly plays a basic role in pre-determining the reader's profile and consequently its circulation. I have intentionally inverted the two elements, because circulation is a function of the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Maria Macchi

June 15, 1974

Newspaper segmentation based upon content and treatment factors

In the paper changes in the functions performed by newspapers are analyzed. It is shown how the type of information carried, the role of entertainment and the ability to act as a social reference point for the reader has changed. Also it is discussed...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Flemming Hansen

Company: AIM Create

June 15, 1974

The development of Zeit magazin guided by marketing research

The research for this colour magazine a supplement of DIE ZEIT (weekly) started in 1965/66, four years before it was launched, and the research activities are still going on. At the beginning of the planning phase prior to the development of ZEIT...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Georg Gramse

June 15, 1974

The Kansas City milkman and other stories

First of all, a magazine or a newspaper is an object, something that you can touch and handle, something that - with a few exceptions - you have to buy with your own money. Let us take the example of a magazine; its format, its weight, the quality of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Jean Mée

June 15, 1974