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| | Redbook: Sex and the City Meets Suburbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | But her new gig is the farthest thing from a launch one could imagine, Redbook having burst on the scene back in 1903, when American women had not yet earned the right to vote, Oprah and Martha were still to make their mark on womankind, and the women’s magazine field was somewhat less cutthroat. |
 | | Morrison comes to Redbook at a time of static circulation and less-than-stellar ad business for the storied service titles—this, as newer entries like Hearst and Harpo’s 2.7 million-circ O, The Oprah Magazine and Time Inc.’s 1.7 million-circ Real Simple deepen their connections with readers and Madison Avenue. |
 | | On the advertising front, Redbook also shouldered an 11.6 percent year-over-year decline in ad pages in 2004, according to Mediaweek Monitor (although, as Morgan pointed out, the magazine last year was coming off the big centennial year of 2003, when it enjoyed year-over-year ad-page growth of 14.6 percent). |
| www.mediaweek.com /mw/news/print/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000799192 (523 words) |
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