Charisma Media (formerly Strang Communications) is suing televangelist Benny Hinn, according to a news article in the Orlando Sentinel. Charisma Media alleges that Hinn violated a morality clause in their contract when he began an “inappropriate relationship” with Paula White, another televangelist. Charisma Media is seeking $250,000.
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The company known for the last 30 years as Strang Communications has rebranded itself as Charisma Media. The change became effective on Feb. 1, 2011.
The name change correlates with a series of recent corporate shifts, including relaunching the company’s flagship magazine and renaming its book division, according to company officials. Founder and CEO Steve Strang says the moves not only position Charisma Media for growth in the digital age, but also undergird the organization’s purpose of inspiring people to radically change their world through the diversified resources the company produces.
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Charisma magazine has named Marcus Yoars as the new editor of Charisma magazine. he will be leading the magazine in an initiative to better serve readers with expanded digital editions, a new iPhone application, as well as a redesigned print magazine.
Yoars served as editor of Ministry Today magazine for the last three years and is only the third editor of Charisma in the magazine’s 35-year history. Yoars, 34, has been in the publishing industry for more than 15 years, including editorial positions at Focus on the Family and Thomas Nelson Publishers. He was born and raised on the missionary field in Hong Kong and is a graduate of Auburn University.
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Stang Communications, publishers of Charisma + Christian Life magazine, launched the digital version of the magazine in January, and they intend to send it to 300,000 people in May. The digital edition is not merely a website, but the facsimile of the printed version of the magazine using the iMirus platform, which is also home to a variety of other digital editions of magazines such as Forbes, Better Homes & Gardens and Car and Driver.
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Miami, FL –Natural health expert and author Jordan Rubin has recovered $55,000 from Strang Communications in a dispute that revealed the faith-based publisher improperly withheld royalties payments for three years from the paperback edition of his New York Times bestseller The Maker’s Diet. Rubin said he was forced to file an arbitration claim after numerous requests and attempts to settle the matter were ignored, according to a news release from the author’s attorney.
“I wanted to believe this was an honest mistake,” said Rubin. “But Strang’s refusal to acknowledge our requests to review royalty statements eventually left me with no other remedy except to take legal action.” [Read More]
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