This year, Sports Illustrated readers can elect not to receive the annual swimsuit issue. According to an article in a recent New York Times, there are people who find beautiful women in expensive bikinis as “alien to the mission of a weekly sports magazine.” I […]
I just received my latest issue of Fast Company, and saw that New Yorker writer and author of the book, The Tipping Point is on the cover–under the headline The Accidental Guru. I haven’t had a chance to read the article in great detail yet, […]
Folio magazine reported this headline this week: Consumer Magazine Ad Revenue Hits $19.38 billion Through November. Here is its report: “Total magazine rate card reported ad revenue jumped 11.5 percent to $2.31 billion in November 2004 over the same period last year, according to the […]
I just read in the New York Times about the Paris Review. The very best author interviews from the magazine’s archives are now readily available online, writes Laura Miller. With a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, the magazine began putting its 51 […]
Work has been a bit crazy lately, so I have just been too tired to be able to post recently. I hope to change such habits soon. I came across this story in Media Week recently. Can you recall all of the talk during the […]
Those of us who work in the magazine world know how important it is to read everything many times before we send it off to the printer. But, we are all human. When mistakes happen, they can drive an editor to the top of a […]
Roy Disney has gotten into the luxury magazine business. According to this story in the New York Times, Disney and the family’s private investment firm Shamrock Capital Growth Fund have invested $50 million into Modern Luxury Media, publishers of such high-end magazines as Chicago Social […]
Could it be that American Demographics magazine will soon fade away? It seems that Primedia has had the magazine up for sale for the past two months, so far with no takers. Here’s a story from Folio. American Demographics is a favorite among readers looking […]
This week, two reporters were suspended from their jobs at the St. Paul Pioneer Press here in the Twin Cities, for attending Bruce Springsteen’s Vote for Change concert. Reporters from the paper (as well as the Star Tribune) were told by their supervisers not to […]
This is why it is so important that news media ownership be diverse. According to reports, Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of one of the largest television chains in the country, is ordering all of its stations to air an anti-Kerry documentary that accuses the senator […]