B2B publisher Reed Business Information - currently awaiting likely divestment from parent Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) - is throwing open the doors to its online operation, hosting a day-long chat session in which editors from three of its specialist web publications are fielding questions from all comers in a live chat session.

Community editors from Flight Global (Stuart Clarke), Farmers Weekly (Isabel Davies) and Community Care (Simeon Brody) are in the chat window embedded below. Content development head Andrew Rogers, whose idea this is, said the process would give folk a glimpse of the publisher and may attract new staff…

Via Adam Tinworth.

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