Rage Of The Unpaid: Don't Invite Angry Freelancers To Your Magazine Party [Email Disasters] (3)
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Hip Hop Weekly is an execrable, half-assed attempt at a hip hop version of Us Weekly. HHW was founded a couple of years ago by Dave Mays and Benzino, the guys who ran The Source into the ground through sheer selfishness before being forced out. Suffice it to say there's no reason to have a sympathetic view of the magazine's existence. Which makes this epic email fuckup on their part—reprinted below!—that much more enjoyable: HHW, ...
Grass-roots journalism meets the modern news weekly (1)
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Everyone's a journalist Mention "participatory media," and what comes to mind are blog conventions, crowd-sourced op-ed columns, Twitter feeds from disaster zones, and citizen journalists typing out eyewitness accounts of local, breaking situations. A slick, full-color magazine sponsored by a state media group does not. Enter Blog Weekly (博客天下), a new biweekly magazine that uses China's army of bloggers to report on current events. The magazine's lofty ideals are on display in an ad was ...
Video: Pundit Calls On Newsweek To Do More Retouching (1)
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When the going gets tough, blame the media. How else to explain this bizarre Fox News segment in which a Republican commentator accuses Newsweek of delivering a "gross slap in the face" to Sarah Palin? The concern is over this cover: Is the problem that headline? No. The commentator and the anchor are appalled that Newsweek failed to retouch the Palin photo. In an accusatory tone, Fox anchor Megyn Kelly says, "When they put you ...
Katie Couric Honestly Reads The Economist, Unlike Certain People [Gotcha Journalismism] (2)
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Although Sarah Palin said yesterday she was "impatient" and "annoyed" with Katie Couric's irrelevant questions about her book learnin' and whatnot, the CBS Evening News anchor wisely avoided firing any direct return fire when confronted with a camerman from TMZ, of all places. But it's all too easy to read — or invent? — meaning between Couric's lines, especially if you can successfully look past her usual smiling charm. Who might Couric be talking about ...
Yukking it up with Joyce Carol Oates and Elmore Leonard (1)
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Joyce Carol Oates and Elmore Leonard might seem like a couple of serious authors who are grim or dour or even severe. But the New Yorker Festival proved that not to be the case. Their panel, "The Devil Within" (certainly a terrifying enough topic) with Matthew Klam, moderated by Daniel Zalewski, was "a light, lively, and amusing affair." We'll have to take the word of blog emdashes, because if a video is coming, it isn't ...
L'Officiel Singapore - Maggie Rizer by photographer Leslie Kee (1)
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Magazine: L'officel SingaporeIssue: October 2008Model: Maggie RizerPhotography by Leslie KeeThe october issue of L'officel Singapore features the comeback of the origianl red hair supermodel Maggie Rizer, in red and pink, this fresh october issue edit and cover were shot by photographer Leslie Kee. Click on the photos above for larger view. Images are courtesy of photographer Leslie Kee.
Covered. (3)
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I don’t get to vote for the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Best Cover of the Year, but that doesn’t mean I can’t share my favorite covers with all of you here. I read a lot of magazines, so I get to see a whole lot of magazine covers every week. For me, magazine covers should be able to tell a story (or reference a previous story) with subtlety, wit, and minimalism. Also, I like ...
Oprah’s African women don’t love themselves (1)
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Not too long ago I was frightened by words of a young, gifted and African woman who expressed a desire to be recreated in Oprah Winfrey’s image: confident, aggressive and, of course, American. This beautiful soul is a high-flying creative achiever who wants to be what she is not: a poor imitation of an African-American super-woman. This [...]
*Nature* Cover Nurtured [Dog Race] (3)
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"Shhhh-it!": Idolator's Super-Secret Music Interview Series Continues [Anonimous Interview Series] (1)
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The "Shhhh-it!" AnonIMous Super-Secret Music-Biz Interview Series has been dusted off and hung back up on the wall, and it feels good, doesn't it? It feels comfortable. Like an old pair of pajamas. Or Mom's Apple Pie. In every edition of S-I!AS-SM-BIS, we interview a grizzled music industry veteran via the synchronous magic of instant messaging, warts and all. We talk about their job, the state of the industry, and whatever else comes to mind. ...
What Magazines Still Don&8217;t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0 (5)
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Since I already drilled a nerve with What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web, which is on its way to becoming one of my most linked posts ever — and since everyone loves a sequel — I thought I would do a follow up for magazines. The lessons, of course, apply to every print publisher, who constantly discovers new ways to frustrate web users by prioritizing print over web. This time I’m going to ...
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Another example of Old Media Pros not getting New Media.
Brooklyn - Pissed Jeans and Children Concert (10.04.08) (1)
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VICE Presents Pissed Jeans & Children Hey NYers, Got plans for this Saturday? You do? Cancel em. This Saturday we are all going to Glasslands in Williamsburg, BK for a night of loud, dirty, sweaty rock and roll. Details below. But you have to RSVP! VICE Presents Pissed Jeans and Children Sat Oct 4th @ Glasslands Pissed Jeans & Children Complimentary Tito's Vodka, Colt 45 & Sake2Me 9 - 11 Free entry but must RSVP ...
Magazines Following the Money to Dubai (1)
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More than once in the last two weeks people we've talked to who know about these things have told us the financial capital of the world decamped to London a while ago and is now headed for Dubai. And it looks like parts of the media world may be following suit. WWD is reporting that Doubledown Media (their homepage says they "reach over 2.5 million working, wealthy men") has announced it has already been printing ...
Under the Radar: The Protest Issue (1)
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Last month’s issue of Under The Radar was their annual protest issue, where they commission musical artists to make their own protest signs. This year they got many people, including Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips, Jarvis Cocker, Chuck D., Built to Spill, Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse, Billy Bragg, Death Cab for Cutie, Britt Daniel of Spoon, Fleet Foxes, Sharon Jones, Colin Meloy of the Decemberists, Michael Stipe and many more. The issue just ...
Food Magazines Ready To Spice Up Poverty-Stricken America's Recipes [Media] (1)
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Yesterday we learned that our national diet is shifting towards cheap, simple meals like tomato soup and Kool-Aid because of the national economic meltdown. But that doesn't mean your tomato-Kool-Aid soup must be boring and plain! Publishers are flooding the market with a new crop of food magazines, just in time for our collective shift from a nation of gourmet snobs to a nation of bony, coupon-clipping scavengers. 2008 saw the publication of 336 food ...
You Can See Russia From Parts Of Alaska [Cartoon] (3)
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Running mates—and vice-presidential debates—are supposed to be mere sideshows of the general election. But that conventional wisdom may be shaken by this year's campaign and this week's debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. The Republican candidate was widely mocked for including among her foreign policy credentials the geographic proximity of her home state of Alaska to Vladmir Putin's Russia. "You can see Russia from parts of Alaska," said Palin. Yes, but you can mainly ...
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Montreal’s only free independent arts and lifestyle magazine — SNAP! — recently launched their third issue for September and October. Titled Bookish, the issue celebrates, among other things, the beauty of books, the charm of geeks, poetry, blogging, artists and their workspaces and a cafe guide for students trying to get their study on in any of Montreal’s stylish neighbourhoods. As you do. time savedtime saved
They’re not “geeks” - they’re early adopters | Online Journalism Blog (3)
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Last week I was at a magazine publishers talking about social media platforms, when it was put to me that the platform I was talking about was “mainly used by Valley types”, and why should journalists invest time in a platform when the majority of readers of more conservative titles don’t use it? It’s a recurring question - so much so that I have decided to present my answer here. I’d welcome any additions. You ...
Were Women In The '50s &'60s Really Like The Ones On Mad Men? [Retro Maghag] (2)
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You may have noticed that we have a little obsession with AMC's Mad Men. Although the show is lots of fun, sometimes we have to wonder if its depiction of women is accurate. Sure, ladies were limited, career-wise, to secretarial or low-level jobs and wives of upwardly mobile men were growing increasingly bored of their housewife roles (Hello, approaching feminist movement!). But the way that the show depicts females might lead one to believe that ...
