—Emap: Following David Gilbertson’s exit, BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) customer intelligence MD Duncan Painter is becoming Emap CEO, Guardian.co.uk reports. GMG, which owns Guardian News & Media, which in turn owns paidContent’s publisher, owns half of Emap.

B2B publisher Emap’s CEO David Gilbertson is leaving after three years, with a trajectory for selling it now seemingly farther away. “Recession has extended the likely period of private equity ownership for the business, making this an opportune moment for new leadership to take the company on to its next…

Back in 2007, what was then the consumer publishing division of mag publisher Emap bought YoSpace, a provider of technology for sharing content via mobile phone, for at least £8.7 ($13.77) million. But now Bauer, which subsequently bought the Emap division, has off-loaded it for just £1, ($1.58) Telegraph.co.uk found…

By John Plunkett: Bauer Media’s women’s fashion glossy Grazia will jump on the 3D bandwagon today with an augmented reality issue featuring Florence and the Machine singing and dancing on the front cover.

If any publication can build a wall, surely it’s Construction News? The builders’ industry title’ site is the latest to switch in Emap’s grand paid content drive that began in November with Retail Week. Editor Nick Edwards has published a template piece introing the new charges: “We think it is…

No final decisions have yet been made on whether Guardian Media Group and Apax Partners will pump more money in to their B2B publisher Emap, led by CEO David Gilbertson. Times Online reported they have “pledged ... to support an acquisition drive with fresh funds” and Telegraph.co.uk followed up with…

—Bauer: The mag publisher is finally filling the digital sales head role, which Kurt Edwards vacated for Future after four months in September. It’s moving Richard Phillips, director of its men’s division, to the post, charged with selling online and mobile ads for 15 titles. Via NMA. —LinkedIn: The professional…

When you’re trying to figure out the future of your entire business model, there’s one thing you could without: impatient creditors. Publishers are still dealing with vast debt piles accumulated before the recession, and are having to pull off some inventive deals and torturous negotiations with lenders and investors to…

B2B magazine publisher Emap will convert all its websites from free to pay-for, starting in the next few weeks. CEO David Gilbertson told us in an interview that all websites in the Inform division (19 business magazines including Construction News, Retail Week and Drapers) will stop giving away free news…

Update: While it does have new paywall technology and a relaunched site, MEED.com has charged for online access for some years as a commenter and others point out. Original: Last week we heard Emap CEO David Gilbertson say that if B2B news sites give readers information that isn’t just interesting,…

Emap CEO David Gilbertson used an AOP Summit keynote to remind publishers hoping to charge for digital content - you gotta be unique! He had some “harsh realities” for business media that “re-write press releases”: “If you can’t do that then you are a producer of a commodity which is…

Bauer Media’s digital sales head Kurt Edwards is jumping over to be rival Future’s new digital commercial director, starting in December and reporting at a pretty high level, to COO Simon Wear.

—FT Lexicon: FT.com has launched a glossary of financial terms, Lexicon.ft.com. Like Forbes Digital’s Investopedia, Lexicon offers 10,000 free definitions of tricky and widely used jargon. Readers are invited to suggest their own definitions or new terms and there’s an RSS feed of new entries. —Emap Inform: The B2B publisher…

How fast times change. It was only last November when B2B publisher Emap Inform said it would make free the two thirds of its titles that were behind a pay wall (see our post). Now it says it’s raising the wall again. Titles include Broadcast, Nursing Week Times and Retail…

Private equity firm Apax told its investors earlier this year it has written down the value of its investment in B2B magazine publisher Emap to nothing, according to Telegraph.co.uk. Apax, in partnership with Guardian Media Group, paid £1.3 billion for the company last year. Emap made a £2 million loss…

In theory, business-to-business publishers theoretically better placed to ride out a recession, with business models less reliant on cyclical ad market and loyal subscription-based audiences. But no publisher is immune to this downturn or the long-term pressures on print revenues. Three major business media players are feeling the pinch in…

—Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Messaging By Orange: Orange and Nokia are expanding their partnership to include a push e-mail product, unfortunately named “Nokia Messaging by Orange”. It lets Orange customers aggregate up to 10 personal e-mail accounts, and will launch first in the UK, followed by France and Spain. —Bauer Media…

Whatever your views on how to keep the magazine business afloat, with UK sales shrinking by 95 million last year according to the PPA, it’s pretty clear something must be done. Sarah Clegg, MD of John Menzies Digital, thinks she has a solution - the digital replica editions her company…

—Emap Inform: Conor Dignam, digital director of B2B publisher Emap Inform, has become editor of the company’s Screen International film industry magazine—and the company doesn’t expect to fill his old role. CEO Simon Middleboe says the role was created to see out the implementation of the Webvision content management system…