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Media Lifeline: News Magazines.(Chronology)(Industry overview)

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The News International division is attempting to play magazine publishers at their own game.

September 2005: Stung by the success of men's weeklies and women's celebrity titles in stealing tabloid readers, News International sets up a mag division. Camilla Rhodes (pictured), News Group Newspapers' managing director, is named News Magazines' chief.

February 2006: The division's first title is a 'real life' women's weekly called Love It!. Backed by a pounds 6 million launch budget, a sampler blitz in The Sunday Times and cross-promotion in The Sun and News of the World, its first issue sells 700,000. This is followed in March by the launch of insideout, an interior decor and homes monthly.

March 2006: News Magazines hires Maria Trkulja, an ex-editor of Hello!, sparking rumours that it is plotting a celebrity weekly. As Project Dannii evolves, a September launch is promised. News Magazines then hires Sandy Whetton (pictured), an ex-IPC director, as its MD.

November 2006: No women's weekly has yet appeared, but there's unexpected ...

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