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If you want to save journalism, you might turn to journalism this year for all your Christmas shopping. This weekend at NewsFoo, an O'Reilly "un-conference" for about 170 journalists and tech disrupters, the tech writer Mónica Guzmán posed a question: "Can't we [news organizations] sell anything besides articles?" Yes, it turns out, and there are...
Malcolm Gladwell On Steve Jobs’ Perfectionism: The Genius Is In The ‘Tweak’
There is something about creativity that tends to bring out the worst in certain people. Maybe this is because the pursuit of a personal vision tends to be isolating and not particularly conducive to sharing or collaboration, or maybe this is because success requires often off-putting qualities like aggression and ruthlessness or the need to...
Media Decoder Blog: Scientology Strikes Back at The New Yorker
Known for its aggressive litigiousness and scorched-earth public relations approach, the Church of Scientology’s latest target is The New Yorker.
Condé Nast’s Scott Dadich on reinventing mags for the iPad and why partnering with Apple matters
The magazine cover may be ascendant once again thanks in part to the debut of Apple’s Newsstand for iPad and iPhone. Combined with Apple’s subscription policy, the Newsstand could potentially be the bridge to the wider adoption of magazines on the iPad. And that, says Scott Dadich, the man tasked with giving new life to...
Smartphone Sensors Could Revolutionize Digital Magazines
We've all done those personality and health quizzes in magazines. You know, the ones where you suspect that answer A will categorize you as the personality type you're trying to avoid, so you choose B instead.Everyone does that, right?
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Apple Brings Conde Nast Aboard the Subscription Bandwagon, Starting With the New Yorker
Apple is winning over the big publishers. Last week, Hearst Corp. said it planned to start selling its magazines using Apple's new iTunes subscription service. Now rival Conde Nast is actually doing it, via the publisher's New Yorker title.
Media Decoder: After Months of Turmoil, Tiny Virginia Quarterly Review Is an Awards Finalist
The New Yorker received nine nominations for National Magazine Awards, the American Society of Magazine Editors announced on Tuesday. Closely following were New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine and The Virginia Quarterly Review, with six nomi...
New Yorker web editor: The site is “guided by what’s on paper”
In a 2006 post at Design Observer, Michael Bierut praised what he termed the "slow design" of The New Yorker: "the patient, cautious, deliberate evolution of a nearly unchanging editorial format over decades."
It's an apt description. As Jon Michaud, the magazine's archive director, told me, "There have been slight design changes over the...
It's an apt description. As Jon Michaud, the magazine's archive director, told me, "There have been slight design changes over the...
