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Media Decoder Blog: A Debate Over Unpaid Interns

by By THE EDITORS on Feb 6, 2012 • No Comments

After the news that a former intern at Harper's Bazaar had sued over her unpaid status, Room for Debate sought out a range of opinions on the issue, asking if the government should intervene in these arrangements.

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Media Decoder: Now, a Trailer for a Magazine Article

by By BRIAN STELTER on Feb 5, 2012 • No Comments

The videos were conceived by Esquire magazine to promote an article in the March issue about the mass killing of exotic animals last fall in Zanesville, Ohio.

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Front Row: Fashion Changes, and So Do the Magazines

by By ERIC WILSON on Feb 4, 2012 • No Comments

Readers can expect to see some changes in the big March magazine issues, most notably in Glamour and Harper’s Bazaar.

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Media Decoder Blog: Site Releases an App for ‘Serious Readers’

by By BRIAN STELTER on Feb 1, 2012 • No Comments

Longform.org, which picks out wordy magazine and online articles for readers, started selling an iPad app on Wednesday that pieces together articles from dozens of sources for offline reading.

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The Best Quotes From Businessweek’s Amazon Piece

by Laura Hazard Owen on Jan 26, 2012 • No Comments

Bloomberg Businessweek‘s January 30 cover story, “Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Wants to Burn the Book Business,” includes rare interviews with Larry Kirshbaum, head of Amazon Publishing’s New York-based division and a publishing industry veteran who “has gone from one of the most well-liked people in publishing to the one of...

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Facebook’s Latest Scoop: Thousands Of Journalists Use Subscribe Feature

by Ingrid Lunden on Jan 25, 2012 • No Comments

For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using its new Subscribe feature, an...

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Future’s Newsstand Transformation: 75,000 New Subscribers

by Robert Andrews on Jan 25, 2012 • No Comments

UK magazine publisher Future made $1 million in new tablet magazine revenue within a month of debuting 65 of its titles on iTunes’ Newsstand.

New York Times (Media) / Publishers

The Media Equation: How Esquire Survived Publishing’s Dark Days

by By DAVID CARR on Jan 23, 2012 • No Comments

David Granger, Esquire’s editor in chief, departed from standard design templates and modernized the magazine, helping to revive a publication many had left for dead.

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How The Magazine Industry Can Save Itself (Hint: Not iPad Apps)

by Gregory Galant on Jan 22, 2012 • No Comments

The top priority for most magazine executives today seems to be building iPad apps. Yet the user experience of a print magazine is unmatchable: they’re cheap, never out of battery charge, not a target for thieves and they have twice the screen space when spread as an iPad screen. Magazines might have a place in...

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