It’s the million-dollar question. Will Apple, the iPad and the iTunes business model save journalism and magazines? It’s uncertain. Whether or not you believe Apple knows something about selling “content” to the public, the debate will need to be discussed by virtually every publishing company […]
It’s sad news to learn today that Newsweek magazine is up for sale. Growing up in a print culture, I admired the qualities of this wonderfully produced news magazine. It’s the bellwether– the end of the large market weekly news magazine, the decline of print […]
Here is a good look at some of the magazine art direction conducted so far for the iPad. It’s impressive. I’m sure once the 3G iPads enter the market later this month that even more such projects will begin to show up. iPad Magazine Art […]
Earlier this month, a group of publishers banded together to launch a new campaign titled Magazines: The Power of Print. Expected to roll out in May issues of various magazines, the advertising campaign is designed to remind readers and advertisers that print is alive and […]
Josh Quittnor has a very good article posted on CNN about the iPad and the future of reading: “The more I thought about it, the more I decided there was good news for the evolution of the publishing industry here — and better news. The […]
“Often recounted, like the tales of Agincourt, with advantages, they present the reporter as a roguish knight-errant, a dashing adventurer with a streak of rat-like cunning. The stuff of countless Fleet Street memoirs, they are also the essence of the Watergate story and of newsroom […]
I enjoyed this essay and I thought I would pass it along here on my blog. It’s written by one of my favorite reviewers, Michael Dirda, a reviewer for the Washington Post and other sites. Here he writes about the nature of his reading habits […]
For many year’s Medill’s School of Journalism at Northwestern University has conducted a wonderful investigative journalism program for undergraduates. As part of the program, undergrads researched criminal cases where convictions may have sent innocent people to death row. Now the program is (wrongly) under fire. […]
“The hard truth about the future of journalism is that nobody knows for sure what will happen; the current system is so brittle, and the alternatives are so speculative, that there’s no hope for a simple and orderly transition from State A to State B.” […]
Joel Achenbach has a good piece in the Washington Post that tackles the question of text in a modern age head on: Is there less time today for the finely crafted narrative? The Web offers no way to read a narrative, argues Achebach. But does […]