Have you ever wished there was a magazine custom-tailored to your world? Well, a new app called Zite promises to create a personal magazine experience on your iPad, and you don’t have to do much at all.
Magazines
Extra! Extra! iPad’s First Exclusive Newspaper
It’s here! The first ever “newspaper” created exclusively for the iPad was recently unveiled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Dubbed The Daily (not to be confused with Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show), the iPad app presents daily news in various forms, from written content to video and 360 degree photos to interactive polls, all wrapped up into one visually-appealing app. To make it even more enticing, the first two weeks are free.
All Covered Up
The pundits who keep saying that print magazines are dead obviously haven’t spent a lot of time at coverjunkie.com.
Reality Gaming Gets Real
Sometimes art can imitate life. Take for example these photos taken for LIFE magazine.
Apple Pie and Editorial Backlash
When Monica Gaudio published a recipe five years ago on a domain name that she owned and a piece she copyrighted, she was happy to share it with the few visitors to her blog. Five years later, a friend informed Gaudio that he saw her article published in Cooks Source magazine, a small western New England publication. Gaudio had never heard of the publication and never gave them her permission to publish her piece. She went to the magazine website and sure enough, her recipe was there.
Designed to Spark Interest
When I saw the latest cover of Esquire magazine, I was immediately impressed.
“The Impossible” issue has done the impossible.
Getting Some Answers
Being a writer for many publications means a lot of interviews either by phone, email or in person. I never know what kind of interview subject I will get or how receptive they will be to what I would like to know.
Finding “the scoop” can prove difficult for some interviewers, because it all lies in the hands (or mind) of the interviewee. I’ve come to find some quick tips in coaxing the story out of subjects.story out of subjects.
Getting Behind the Wheel of a Big Rig
Last week, I traded in my writing notepad to get behind the wheel of a 2010 Volvo truck for a test drive. It was my first time driving anything bigger than a pickup truck, and I have to admit, it was a lot of fun!
Print’s Answer to the iPad
Field & Stream is making a defiant challenge for the superiority of print. The editors have literally turned their magazine into a target, and made it interactive to boot! An inside page of the “gun nut” issue has been designed for target practice. The magazine asks readers to submit pictures of themselves shooting at the target page for the chance to win a gun.
Magazine Readership Shows Growth
According to a report just released by GfK MRI (formerly Mediamark Research & Intelligence), magazine readership in the United States is slowly growing – a fact that is worthy of grand celebration in an industry often declared as “dead.”
How did your favorite magazines perform over the past year?