Bauer’s decision to close Arena today shuts the chapter on a 22-year-old rollercoaster ride never before seen in men’s magazines. When Arena first hit the newsstands in the winter of 1986 the UK and its media was a very different place. The year had started with the unveiling of ambitious plans to connect...
No surprise... a couple of months after appointing an editor with little experience Emap is shopping its reader-lite men's title Arena around to buyers. According to Media Week, Development Hell, Factory Media and Dennis Publishing are all potential buyers. Although the price is going to have to...
Arena is on its last legs and Emap has taken a radical solution: appoint an editor with no magazine experience. Not only does Giles Hattersley have no magazine experience, but he is 27. Not a crime, but if your magazine is down in circulation almost 30% year-on-year, is that the answer? Maybe. Hattersley...
