Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dealing with Government. But the magazine has also proved indispensable to bureaucrats and legislators, and today that dense, no-fooling Washington weekly has 4,000 subscribers, each willing to pay $345 annually. "We're a sophisticated trade magazine for those involved in policymaking," says Publisher John Fox Sullivan, and the Journal is every bit as thorough-and sometimes as dull-as this mandate would suggest. Washington's shakers and movers, along with many of the shaken and the moved, read it scrupulously. The White House has 75 subscriptions, Congress more than 400, and the press corps countless more...
Once as somber as the Federal Register, the Journal is now sprinkled with photographs and cartoons. This concession to the 20th century was engineered by Sullivan, former assistant publisher of Newsweek International, who was brought in four years ago by Anthony C. Stout, one of the Journal's founders and chairman of its parent company. Sullivan has loosened the magazine in other ways as well. An understated but chatty "People" section keeps readers posted on the doings of Government and media luminaries, and an "Update" column concisely covers developments along such news-fronts as national health insurance, coal-burning...
...into the black for the first time. "We've got more than an 85% renewal rate and our circulation is growing," boasts Editor Richard Frank. But the warm breeze of success should not be misconstrued as a prevailing wind for making the magazine, perish the thought, popular. Says Sullivan very firmly: "We are definitely not thinking that...
...Barbara Boyle Sullivan, 42, criticizes the affirmative-action policies of corporations?and they pay her for it. Her consulting firm, Boyle/Kirkman Associates, which she founded with Colleague Sharon Kirkman Donegan in 1972, originally specialized in locating patterns of discrimination
...large companies. Since then the firm has focused on affirmative action in general: recruiting and developing the talents of women, minorities, youth and the aged. "Companies have hired women and minorities in entry level jobs, and now it is a question of solving the upward mobility problems," says Sullivan. A Philadelphia native who lives in California, Sullivan spends three weeks out of four traveling. Although Boyle/Kirkman now has yearly revenues of more than $1 million and 45 clients, the majority of which are FORTUNE 500 companies, affirmative action is progressing slowly. Observes Sullivan: "This is not just a sprint?this...