Archive for the ‘magazines’ tag
Redesigning The Atlantic #
This stuff fascinates me. And the obligatory link to the Helvetica cover concept.
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The Newspaper Business #
An under-understood truth:
Paul Krugman was observing that even though the political coverage is the part of the media that people like to talk about, it’s actually fairly marginal to the business. The New York Times is known for its hard news coverage, but he observes that from a business perspective it’s primarily a fashion and food publication that runs a small political news operation on the side. One issue of T Magazine, he says, pays for an entire NYT European bureau.
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Read It Online #
Unlike Wired’s Chris Anderson who counter-intuitively argues that it’s greener to read that magazine in print, Slate’s Green Lantern says — as do I — that’s unlikely.
The greener choice would be to read the paper online, correct?
The Lantern believes so, but the environmental difference between dead-tree newspapers and their online editions is a lot smaller than you might imagine. In fact, there are learned experts who contend that traditional newsprint ultimately comes out ahead, at least in terms of net carbon-dioxide emissions. Though the Lantern disagrees with some of the assumptions these contrarians make, it’s worth exploring their arguments in order to better understand how hard it is to calculate a product’s cradle-to-grave impact.
The Atlantic Taking Down Paywall #
I like the growing trend toward having your whole website freely accessible online, I just wish that it would go faster.
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David Brooks’s 2007 Sidney Awards #
David Brooks, a columnist for the New York Times, has an tradition of giving out annual awards for good magazine pieces. In 2006, he described the prize as such:
The Sidney Awards, named for Sidney Hook, are a nice way to honor the best magazine essays of the year and to pass along a few nutritious holiday reading recommendations.
2007 was the first year I came across the columnist’s winners, and they’re pretty solid — and an excellent way fill the void caused by a lack of other good journalism. And I wouldn’t deny that seeing this great idea was part of the reason I started Link Banana.