Are magazines next? That’s the question put forth in this month’s Folio magazine, the trade magazine for those in the magazine publishing business. The question refers to that political hot button of the day: outsourcing. “It’s an increasingly familiar picture: the transfer of work that […]
From many reports it seems that magazine advertising is down across nearly every category of periodical. Combine this will falling circulation revenues, many publishers are looking to ancillary products to boost the bottom line. Read about it in the New York Times. This Old House […]
OK, one more post about media profits and I will change the subject. When I asked about the breaking point a couple of days ago, maybe this is what I was talking about. Here’s a story from yesterday’s New York Times. This year, the Los […]
One of the scholars/practitioners that I cited in my graduate research regarding the news media and society was Bill Kovach, the former editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution and co-author of the book Warp Speed, American in the Age of Mixed Media. The book, written […]
This is the opening paragraph for a book review that will appear in the June 24 issue of the New York Review of Books, titled ‘Unfit to Print?’ It’s written by Michael Massing. “Buried deep in Bob Woodward’s new book, Plan of Attack, is a […]