Life At Bonnier - Stefan Mehr

Sweden's Great Journalist Award On the Horizon

By Bert Menninga on 2010-08-31
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Nominations for Sweden's Great Journalist Award will close in a month. Stefan Mehr, program leader for the prizes, promises some changes at the awards ceremony.

This week begins an ad campaign for nominations for the Great Journalist Award, Sweden's answer to the Pulitzer Prize. The nomination period closes on Sept. 30 and the actual awards will be announced on Nov. 25 at the Rotunda of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

BMU Workshops Generate Ideas and Revenue at Bonnier Corp.

By Kristyn Brady on 2010-07-01
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Ideas turn into reality at BMU business process meetings at Bonnier Corporation.

Photo: Valerie Fischel

Brainstorming pays off. At least in the case of Bonnier Media University's recent workshops at Bonnier Corp. in the U.S., where the ideas developed are already up and running. And generating revenue.

The first installment of workshops began in February, and publishers have been quick to see the results.

Martha Stewart to Keynote at GRID10

By Bert Menninga on 2010-06-23
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GRID10 will feature American style guru and media icon Martha Stewart.

Photo: Scott Duncan

Martha Stewart, America's most trusted guide to stylish living, will be a keynote speaker at GRID10 in September. Stewart, whose magazines, TV programs, books and entire product range have inspired a generation of Americans, will be joining a host of other speakers at GRID10, an inspirational meeting of creative minds from all Bonnier companies.

Great Ideas, Fantastic Speakers

By Kristyn Brady on 2010-05-18
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Bonnier Media University's Stefan Mehr on the upcoming GRID conference.

In early 2008, Jonas Bonnier approached Stefan Mehr of Bonnier Media University with an idea to create a completely different kind of media conference that had nothing explicit to do with Bonnier business. "We wanted to create something very unconventional, revolving around storytelling by outstanding speakers, since storytelling is the essence of what Bonnier is all about," says Mehr, who was charged with turning the idea into reality.

And so GRID was born.

Graduation Day

By Ganda Suthivarakom on 2009-06-03
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Bonnier Publishing Program 3.0: 20 participants, 40 speakers, 16 companies in 3 countries

It's late spring in Stockholm, a time when city residents get to enjoy blooming lilacs, white nights, and truckloads of drunken high school graduates reveling in the streets.  Last week, 20 men and women gathered for a more sober, but no less exuberant, diploma ceremony of their own.  The Bonnier Publishing Program 3.0  came to a fitting end at Nedre Manilla, the Bonnier private residence in Stockholm's Djurgården, where the young digital lions of