Life At Bonnier - BMU

Meet Kim Oswell

By Bert Menninga on 2011-02-17
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Sports fan and copy editor Kim Oswell trades the beaches of Southern California for the snow and ice of Stockholm as part of the GROW program.

When Kim Oswell, 27, got the chance to work for a company focused on sports, she jumped at the chance. Oswell, who played softball in high school and is an avid sports fan, started three and half years ago at action sport magazine publisher TransWorld Media, a part of Bonnier Corporation.

Bonnier Key People Commitment

By Bert Menninga on 2010-12-13
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Bonnier Media University launches new initiative.

Stefan Mehr by Carl Bengtsson

Founded in 1990, Bonnier Media University has evolved and shifted focus as Bonnier has expanded. But its primary purpose has remained the same - to develop, attract and inspire key people and talent within Bonnier. Now BMU is undertaking the biggest initiative in its history: the Bonnier Key People Commitment.

"The most important task for Bonnier both in the short and long term is to make sure we have the best staff possible," says Jonas Bonnier, the driving force behind the initiative.

It's Time for GROW Again

By Bert Menninga on 2010-09-30
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GROW, Bonnier's exchange program for 2011, is looking for applications. Wouldn't you like to work in another country? BMU's Elisabeth Palombo explains.

It's time again to consider working in another job, another company, another country - without leaving Bonnier or your old job behind. GROW, Bonnier's global rotation program is now looking for participants for the three terms of 2011. "We have new jobs, new companies and new countries this year," says Elisabeth Palombo of Bonnier Media University and manager of the GROW program.

BMU Workshops Generate Ideas and Revenue at Bonnier Corp.

By Kristyn Brady on 2010-07-01
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Ideas turn into reality at BMU business process meetings at Bonnier Corporation.

Photo: Valerie Fischel

Brainstorming pays off. At least in the case of Bonnier Media University's recent workshops at Bonnier Corp. in the U.S., where the ideas developed are already up and running. And generating revenue.

The first installment of workshops began in February, and publishers have been quick to see the results. John McEver, publisher of Boating, says, "From our workshop we created a multi-platform marketing program with a revenue target of USD 300,000 for the fourth quarter."

Meet Kristyn Brady

By Bert Menninga on 2010-05-05
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Trading New York for Stockholm, Field & Stream's Kristyn Brady takes on Bonnier Media University.

When Field & Stream's Kristyn Brady applied for a GROW position at Bonnier Media University, she had no idea that so many people were interested in the exchange program. "People stopped me in the hall and congratulated me," she says.

Graduation Day

By Ganda Suthivarakom on 2009-06-03
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Bonnier Publishing Program 3.0: 20 participants, 40 speakers, 16 companies in 3 countries.

It's late spring in Stockholm, a time when city residents get to enjoy blooming lilacs, white nights, and truckloads of drunken high school graduates reveling in the streets.  Last week, 20 men and women gathered for a more sober, but no less exuberant, diploma ceremony of their own.  The Bonnier Publishing Program 3.0  came to a fitting end at Nedre Manilla, the Bonnier private residence in Stockholm's Djurgården, where the young digital lions

California Dreamin'

By Rickard Henley on 2009-05-04
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TV4's Rickard Henley visits Google, Guy Kawasaki, and more with the Bonnier Publishing Program.

A brief walkthrough

Twenty people from different Bonnier companies around the world went to San Francisco for the fourth part of the Bonnier Publishing Program. This is a brief report about what we saw and learned.