Stories by PRNEWS

Ziff Davis is halting publication of Expedia Travels in light of the advertising and travel downturn. The November issue of the bi-monthly travel mag will be its last. (Ziff Davis: Elizabeth Estroff, 212/503-5162)

Primedia is consolidating several of its teen-focused titles in its ongoing efforts to dominate the teen category. Such timeless classics as Tiger Beat, Teen Beat, Bop and 16 have merged into Teen as quarterly entertainment… Continued

Aviation Week launches a multimedia initiative addressing homeland security. The initiative includes a new Web site, http://www.aviationnow.com/security, featuring breaking news, analysis and other resources; a conference on homeland security and defense on Nov. 27; and… Continued

Primedia and Steven Brill shutter Brill’s Content and Inside.com in response to the economy and their own strained relationship. The three-year-old magazine, devoted to the facts and foibles behind the media industry, will cease publication… Continued

Fast Company wants to know. The magazine is holding its first-ever readers’ challenge, a “worldwide search for ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” The March 2002 issue of the mag will feature the Fast 50, a… Continued

Ad agency Cramer-Krasselt opens an autonomous PR division, CKPR, with 85 staffers in four cities (Chicago, Milwaukee, Orlando and Phoenix). CKPR will be looking at acquisitions in Washington, DC and New York. Hill and Knowlton… Continued

When Sherry Treco-Jones, strategic consultant and partner of Agency I.D. in Decatur, Ga., and Tom Vitelli, senior director at Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, started planning this year’s international conference for the Public Relations… Continued

PR NEWS and PR Newswire present an interactive Webinar The PR Professional in Challenging Times: A Communications Blueprint for 2002 November 13, 2001 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., EST Join Jack Bergen, president of the… Continued

The PRSSA Bateman Case Study competition has selected Contiki Holidays, the largest travel company targeting 18- to 35-year-olds, as the subject of its 2002 competition. PRSSA student teams will work with Contiki to create and… Continued

Sixty-six-year-old Charlotte Beers is a legend in advertising circles. She has led three of America’s largest advertising agencies, but now she faces what is perhaps the greatest challenge of her career – branding Osama bin… Continued