(PR Newswire) — Last year, the online urban community was injected with a fresh new addition, NV Magazine. Covering several topics in urban culture from hip-hop music and artists to urban fashion, NV Magazine is a digital magazine that takes online media to a new level. Now armed with a new headquarters in New York […]

(Chicago Sun Times) — Johnson Publishing Co. Inc., publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines, said Tuesday it has sold its home of nearly 40 years on Michigan Avenue.  The company, which has gone through a painful down- sizing typical for the publishing business, is selling its 820 S. Michigan building to Columbia College Chicago. Johnson […]

After five years at the helm the editor-in chief departs with a mixed legacy.

Andre Torres discusses his distinct approach to cultivating an alternative urban brand.

(Chicago Sun Times) —  Amy DuBois Barnett, the new editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine, the Chicago-based voice of the African-American community struggling with declining revenues, intends to attract readers with a strong editorial voice on important issues that will ring out on people’s cell phones, iPads and other on-the-go media. “It’s impossible to have a one-dimensional […]