2023 Florida Media Conference Registration Now Open!!

Mark your calendar and start making plans to join us on July 20-21 at the beautiful Westin Resort in Sarasota!

Hotel Room Block is now open…… For Reservations visit: https://book.passkey.com/e/50363711

Hosted by the Florida Press Foundation, the Florida Media Conference is an annual event that brings together top Florida Media executives for two days of industry knowledge sharing, innovative ideas from vendors, and networking opportunities for media executives as well as our media young professionals. There will be something at our conference for everyone! Conference partners include the Florida Press Association, Florida Newspaper Advertising and Marketing Executives, Florida Magazine Association, and the Florida Society of News Editors.

The various awards ceremonies will take place on the following days:

• Thursday afternoon, 7/20- FSNE Journalism Contest Luncheon
• Thursday evening, 7/20- FNAME Creative Excellence Contest Dinner
• Friday afternoon, 7/21 – FPA Weekly Newspaper Contest Luncheon
• Friday evening, 7/21 – FMA Charlie Awards Gala

We’re working hard to develop programs to bring you the very best industry speakers from around the state and the nation – so stay tuned! Check FloridaMediaConference.com for more updated information.

Want to Reach Top Professional Sales Students?

Our partners at Florida Press Association and their tech partner Column have created “The Next Lede,” a robust media sales internship job board that will host sales internship opportunities from media companies, including magazines, throughout Florida and eventually the U.S. Please upload your 2023 Sales Internship opportunities here

Professional sales students are in the process of looking for summer internships right now, so the sooner the better.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to ktower@flpress.com.

FMA Member Survey

To better help serve our members, we ask that you please take a few moments to participate in a brief survey.

Call for Volunteers — Join an FMA Committee in 2023

Interested in furthering the magazine industry in the state, while gaining valuable leadership experience? Join a Florida Magazine Association committee!

The Florida Magazine Association is always looking for interested professionals — and aspiring editorial executives — to join our board. And what better way to do so, than by volunteering on one of our many committees.

We are currently accepting applications for interested FMA members to join one of our committees — Nominating, Marketing & Membership, Contest, Newsletter, Scholarship, and Conference & Webinar.

“Committee members are the heart of FMA,” says FMA President Karla Monterrosa-Yancey. “Our committee members assist us with many vital activities, including the Charlie Awards program, serving as judges for our Doug Damerst Scholarship, and promoting our social presence.”

Founded in 1953, FMA’s mission is to create a community of publishing professionals that help to promote the excellence and standing of magazines in the state. “Our members represent the gamut of magazines in Florida and so do our committee and board members,” adds Monterrosa-Yancey. “We are always looking for interest editors, writers and publishers to join our committees and help us move our association forward.”

If you are interested in becoming a committee member, please contact Karen Tower at ktower@flpress.com by March 31, 2023, and indicate your top two committee choices.

The Well of PBC

A sci-fi magazine has cut off submissions after a flood of AI-generated stories

by Vincent Acovino, Mary Louise Kelly, Halimah Abdullah
The science fiction and fantasy magazine Clarkesworld has been forced to stop accepting any new submissions from writers after it was bombarded with what it says were AI-generated stories.

The magazine officially shut off submissions on February 20 after a surge in stories that publisher and editor-in-chief Neil Clarke says were clearly machine-written. 
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Hearst Reorganizes Its Sales Structure, Centering Categories Over Publishers

by Mark Stenberg
In order to work more effectively with advertisers, Hearst Magazines, parent to editorial titles including Cosmopolitan and Esquire, plans to reorganize its internal sales structure around industry categories by the end of the first quarter.

The move will shift the sales and marketing staff away from their current title-centric model to better support the objectives of its advertising clients. The company said that it already successfully operates using this structure outside of the U.S. 
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“Opportunity for reach on social media is larger than ever”: How can publishers make the most of it?

by Faisal Kalim
Over 4.5B people use social media – that’s nearly 60% of the world’s population, according to a new report from Echobox. And the average growth rate of social media users globally is 3% per year. “The opportunity for reach on social media is larger than ever,” the authors note. “How can companies make the most of this moment in time?”

Improving click-through traffic between social platforms and websites would help publishers attract readers and build relationships with them. “In this regard, benchmarking data is essential to understanding how different platforms perform in driving traffic back to a website,” they explain. 
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TV Guide Magazine Launches New Print Monthly, TV Insider, Focused on Streaming

by Michael Schneider
There aren’t many new print publications being launched in this tough media climate, but the company behind TV Guide Magazine is trying just that. The team behind TV Guide Magazine (owned since 2015 by Michigan-based NTVB Media) have launched a new magazine focused on the TV streaming platforms, hitting newsstands this week.

The new monthly magazine, TV Insider, features content from the TV Guide Magazine staff — but jettisons the 70-year-old publication’s listings, instead focusing on more coverage of TV programming. The first issue, which has a March 2023 date, features Kiefer Sutherland (star of Paramount+’s new series “Rabbit Hole,” which premieres March 26) on the cover. Peacock’s breakout hit “Poker Face” star Natasha Lyonne will follow up as the April issue’s cover star.
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