Ziff Davis Media Inc. profile and media properties

Media Owners editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 9:00am on Friday, March 11, 2011

Eric Lundquist and Elliot Markowitz to Lead Editorial Operations at Ziff Davis

-- On March 10, 2011, the company announced that Lundquist would be promoted to SVP, Editorial, and Markowitz to SVP, Director of Content.

Lundquist will set editorial strategy across all Ziff Davis Enterprise brands. He was previously an editor and editorial director of eWEEK, eWEEK.com, and PC Week.

Markowitz will oversee the day-to-day operations of all of Ziff Davis Enterprise's editorial brands. He was previously editorial director of Nielsen Business Media, as well as editorial director for Ziff Davis Digital Events and editor of CRN magazine.

Lundquist and Markowitz will report to Ziff Davis Enterprise CEO Steve Weitzner.

"IT professionals are seeking more information using more platforms than ever before and IT marketers are recognizing that quality content is at the core of a successful digital marketing strategy. As a result, the pace, size and variety of the editorial workload today is like nothing ever seen before in publishing," said Weitzner. "The team of Eric and Elliott is uniquely qualified to lead our talented group of editors and contributors as they tackle the rapidly changing demands on our content engine."

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:04pm on Thursday, January 8, 2009

On January 6, 2009, Ziff Davis Media CEO Jason Young announced that the company is shutting down Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine and selling the 1UP Digital Network business to Hearst Corporation:

We are announcing today the sale of our 1UP digital business to UGO Entertainment, a dvision of Hearst Corporation.

Over the course of the last 4 years we have built the 1UP sites into a top tier gaming digital destination. While our growth has been sharp, it has become apparent that more scale is necessary to effectively compete in this market segment. We made the decision that the best path to putting our award winning 1UP brand and content in a more competitive position was to combine it with the operations of another publisher. We received much interest from other parties.

After a comprehensive process, this morning we completed a deal with Hearst Interactive, the owner and operator of UGO Entertainment. 1UP.com, MyCheats.com, Gamevideos.com, and Gametab.com will now all be part of the UGO Entertainment business. Many of our employees will travel with this business and become part of the UGO team.

With this transaction happening, we have also made the decision to discontinue publication of EGM. The January 2009 issue will be the final issue of the publication. With demand for print continuing to decline amongst both advertisers and readers and the content being produced by 1UP no longer available for use in the publication, it simply did not make sense for us to move forward with this business any longer.