Archive for 'magazines'
The year’s best magazine covers
According to the Magazine Publishers of America’s 2007 American Magazine Conference Awards, that is. This Texas Monthly cover won for “best coverline.”
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under magazines.
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Journalistic ethics and Publishers Weekly
Ed Champion excoriates Karen Holt for writing in Publishers Weekly that includes passages such as this:
There was the time at BEA when I wanted to ask Margaret Atwood a few questions so she took my arm and steered me toward some chairs in the corner (”Margaret Atwood is touching me!”). There was my trip to [...]
Posted: August 14th, 2007 under journalism, magazines, publishing.
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Academic Journals Endangered?
Dani Rodrik cites a new paper by Glenn Ellison that appears to show that top academics are publishing fewer scholarly papers in specialized and general interest journals. These writers, like many others, have discovered that on-line publishing is an easier means to reach a larger audience more quickly than print publication.
The interesting aspect of this [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2007 under magazines, publishing, research.
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10 Questions: Howard Junker, editor of ZYZZYVA
This introduces “Ten Questions,” which may become an ongoing feature. Today I’m talking with Howard Junker, editor of the literary review ZYZZYVA (”The Journal of West Coast Writers & Artists”). ZYZZYVA (the name of a kind of beetle, and the last word in some dictionaries) publishes works by writers based in California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 under community, magazines, publishing.
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