Life At Bonnier

Meet Stephanie Tang

Experiencing a new culture was key for GROW participant Stephanie Tang.

What surprises Stephanie Tang most about the Sydney office of Weldon Owen is how diverse the culture is. "One of my co-workers says we're like the UN," says Tang. She is participating in the GROW program, working for three months as a designer for Weldon Owen's Discovery Education books. Tang's regular job is at Weldon Owen Inc. in San Francisco, where she has worked for the past three and a half years as a senior designer.

BMU Workshops Generate Ideas and Revenue at Bonnier Corp.

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.

MTV3 Supports the WWF With Free Advertising

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The WWF's work on preserving the Baltic gets support from Finland's MTV3.

Photo: WWF/Mauri Rautkari

When it comes to watching out for the health of the Baltic sea, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is one of Finland's non-profit organizations taking the lead. The organization has a number of initiatives aimed at protecting the ecology. The creation of wetlands in coastal zones, which prevent runoff from farming entering the sea, is one major project. Preparation for a possible oil spill is another, with some 5,500 volunteers recruited already to help in the case of such an emergency.

Three New Vice Presidents for Bonnier Corporation

Bonnier Corporation promotes Gregg Hano, Eric Zinczenko and Glenn Hughes to the positions of Vice President, Group Publisher.

Bonnier Corporation has promoted three of its group publishers to the positions of Vice President, Group Publisher: Gregg Hano, Eric Zinczenko and Glenn Hughes.

Hano will oversee Popular Science, Science Illustrated, Sound + Vision, Popular Photography and American Photography; Zinczenko will oversee Field & Stream, Outdoor Life and Shot Business.

Martha Stewart to Keynote at GRID10

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.

Meet Amy Mangino

For GROW participant Amy Mangino, different countries means different magazine models.

Handling magazine advertisements or subscriptions differ depending on which side of the Atlantic you work. So says GROW participant and New Yorker Amy Mangino, who is on a three-month work exchange in Stockholm.  "I thought it would be a great opportunity to live abroad and learn how magazine publishing works in another country," says Mangino, 34, who has worked as a marketing director at Bonnier Corporation's Saveur for the past two years. "I create the media kit, general presentation, and category presentations," she says.

Meet Brian Glaser

GROW participant navigates Copenhagen's streets and Bonnier Publications brands.

More than anything else, Brian Glaser notices unique cultural differences between his hometown of Brooklyn, New York and Copenhagen, Denmark. Glaser, 26, is in Denmark for three months on an exchange as part of the GROW program. "The biggest difference is that Danes rely on their bicycles in the same way Americans rely on their cars." says Glaser.  "My favorite memories have been of me riding my bike through narrow alleyways and getting lost among neighborhoods that have been here for hundreds of years.

Bonnier and Sweden's Best Financial Reporters

Dagens Industri and Dagens Nyheter reporters take six of the top ten spots in annual ranking of media coverage of finance and economy.

Financial reporters from two Bonnier newspapers - Dagens Industri and Dagens Nyheter - took six of the top 10 spots in the yearly ranking of business media and finance reporting done by PR agency Hallvarsson & Halvarsson. Dagens Industri was chosen as well as the best daily newspaper.

Poland's Puls Biznesu Ups Advertising in a Down Market

Newspaper ad sales in Poland may still be below last year, but Krzysztof Zarzeczny of Puls Biznesu explains how the business daily has succeeded in hard times. 

Bonnier Business Polska in Poland is bucking the trends with an increase in newspaper ad sales for business daily Puls Biznesu of 23.1 percent for January to May 2010 compared to the same period the previous year. For the newspaper industry as a whole in Poland, ad sales were down at - 8 percent during the same period, with magazines down at -7 percent.

Meet Pirita Hiltunen

Whether it's redesigning a website structure or taking yoga classes in German, this GROW participant stays busy.

Even if you don't know the German words for "drain" of "clogged" you can still manage to solve the problem of a clogged drain with your janitor in Berlin. GROW participant Pirita Hiltunen from MTV3 Finland is living proof that even after only a month at Ullstein Buchverlage in Berlin, you can get by easier than you think. "German yoga lesson instructions are slowly starting to make sense to me - as well as the chaotic Berlin traffic. With a bike," she says.