I Made Gorkana

My job change landed on Gorkana today. Here’s the copy and paste. 

Insurance Journal
Ken St. Onge has joined Insurance Journal as Associate Editor. Ken, most recently the Managing Editor of the Hartford Business Journal, will cover the property/casualty insurance industry throughout the Northeast region. He can be reached at … Ken will continue to write the “Industrial Strength” column for the Hartford Business Journal through the end of the year. 

How Fortuitous They Were Hiring

I made myself very jealous when I found out last night that Wells Publishing (the company for which I just started working) has been named the second best magazine publishing company to work for in the country by Publishing Executive. It’s especially impressive given some of the names it beat out — Meredith Corp. (Better Homes & Gardens, Family Circle), Rodale (Men’s Health and my favorite magazine, Runner’s World), Time Inc., Reed (Variety), Crain, F+W (Writer’s Digest) and others.

Interesting tidbit: McMurry Inc., which topped the list, is a company that does mostly custom publishing, rather than traditional publishing. The CEO called his company’s win “a sign of the shifting times when the happiest people in publishing are in custom publishing or custom media.”

He’s probably right. A lot of business-to-business publishing companies are getting into the custom publishing business (in a nutshell: advertiser-sponsored, topic-specific magazines, books, Web sites, etc.) because it’s proving to be quite profitable for them and successful for their advertisers. McMurry is among the largest publishers doing that type of work.