Last year’s round of cuts at Time Inc. came with a major restructuring. The 2009 version is “more targeted” with most of the cuts now underway affecting the News group, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes told analysts during the Q3 earnings call today that group includes Time, Sports Illustrated, Money and Fortune: “We’re aiming to increase the consumer utility at the same time as the financial sustainability of some of our key branding.”
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Quinstreet, the Foster City, CA-based vertical media and marketing firm that recently bought Insure.
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