Lessons from Linsanity: Hashtags are good, screwups are gonna happen
CNET | Poynter The “#SILINSANITY” hashtag on the cover of last week’s Sports Illustrated “may not be the first hashtag on the cover of a magazine, but it certainly is one of the first I’ve noticed,”...
View ArticleMajor magazine publishers launch own digital newsstand with flat pricing
VentureBeat | New York Times Five major magazine publishers launched their own digital newsstand today called Next Issue Media. Hearst, Conde Nast, Time Inc., Meredith, and News Corp. are basically...
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AOL doubles down on Web-to-magazine model with launch of ‘Huffington’ for iPad
New York Times | Mashable | Capital New York This free preview issue of Huffington magazine will come out Thursday. The Huffington Post launches an iPad magazine on Thursday called “Huffington,”...
View ArticleStudy: Tablet users more likely to buy magazines, e-books than news, newspapers
Online Publishers Association New research published today answers some key questions about what kinds of content tablet users consume, and what they’re willing to buy. The survey, funded by the Online...
View ArticleSpin layoffs, Time changes latest evidence of print magazines rethinking...
The New York Times | Billboard | The New York Times | Talking Biz News Spin magazine laid off its editor-in-chief and managing editor Friday, as well as nine other staffers while its new owner...
View ArticleHuffington iPad mag stops charging, renewing concern about readers’...
Capital New York | GigaOM The Huffington Post’s new weekly iPad magazine — originally priced at 99 cents / $1.99 a month / $19.99 a year — is dropping its price to zero after five issues, Joe Pompeo...
View ArticleReports: Meredith in talks to buy most Time Warner magazines
Fortune | The New York Times “A serious buyer is in talks with” Time Warner about buying most of its magazine properties, James Bandler, Doris Burke and Jennifer Reingold report in Fortune. The deal is...
View ArticleEsquire editor says photos of women are like ‘pictures of cool cars’
The Guardian | New York Alex Bilmes, who edits Esquire’s U.K. edition, claimed in a panel on feminism in London that his magazine was “more honest” in its portrayal of women than the rest of the...
View Article2013 National Magazine Awards widen scope, and women win
The Huffington Post | Jezebel | ASME At the American Society of Magazine Editors awards Thursday night, Dahlia Lithwick won for commentary and Pamela Colloff won for feature writing. No women won...
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The New Yorker features two moms on its Mother’s Day cover
The New Yorker The artist Chris Ware writes about his cover for the magazine’s May 13 issue, which shows two moms reading a card: Few people today don’t know—or have in their families—at least one...
View ArticlePlayboy among most accurate magazines, Grammarly finds
The editing service Grammarly looked at articles in top men’s and women’s magazines, checking for “spelling, grammar and punctuation errors.” The most accurate men’s magazine it found was GQ. Ladies’...
View ArticleFor Modern Farmer, farm stands hold more promise than newsstands
When Modern Farmer launched its GoatCam in September, Editor-in-Chief Ann Marie Gardner was surprised to hear from people working at the Pentagon. “They had a suggestion for changing the angle of the...
View ArticleMagazine industry ad decline slowing, but 4th quarter not good
The final tally came in this week for print magazine advertising in 2013. It is the typical good news/bad news scenario. Ad pages — the industry’s traditional measure — were down 4.1 percent for the...
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‘Remake, remodel:’ 3 ways the digital revolution has changed women’s magazines
Brooke Erin Duffy remembers her first meeting with Seventeen magazine. She was 12, at her grandparent’s house and totally entranced. Duffy, an assistant professor in the School of Media and...
View ArticleDigital editions up slightly at U.S. magazines
AAM Digital edition circulation rose at U.S. magazines in the first half of 2014, according to the Alliance for Audited Media’s most recent report. But digital editions represented only 3.8 percent of...
View ArticleReports: Meredith in talks to buy most Time Warner magazines
Company would hold on to a few titles.
View ArticleEsquire editor says photos of women are like ‘pictures of cool cars’
Women are "ornamental" in the mag, he said.
View ArticleThe New Yorker features two moms on its Mother’s Day cover
We're reaching the "so what?" stage, says artist.
View ArticlePlayboy among most accurate magazines, Grammarly finds
Men's mags were slightly more accurate,
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