January 2018 - Freeport Press

Buzzfeed Lays off 100 and Ad-funded Online Journalism Takes its Lumps

31 January 201831 January 2018|Digital, publishing

There’s a group of 20 or so journalists in the UK suddenly available for hire. No, they weren’t laid off from a struggling print newspaper. Rather, they’ve been cut from the editorial staff at Buzzfeed, part of a purge of...

What Happens When a Publisher Puts the Community First

30 January 201830 January 2018|Magazine, Print

What we learned from the Mr. Magazine interview with William R. Hearst III. Echoing the idea of “magazine as community” I shared yesterday, publisher William R. Hearst III says he believes his readers aren’t just a mailing list; they are...

Why We Can’t Get Magazines Out of our Blood

30 January 201830 January 2018|Magazine, Print

“I recently had coffee with a new acquaintance who runs a web design firm. When she mentioned she’d like to start a magazine, my first impulse—as a former magazine editor—was to tell her she’s crazy,” writes Gail Reitenbach of Right...

Hyper-local Journalism and the City Magazine

29 January 201829 January 2018|Magazine, Print

The world may be getting smaller, but we still care deeply about what’s going on in our own communities. And city magazines are filling in where local newspapers have left off. “The neighborhood that goes by the moniker ‘West End’...

Those Old-school Quasi Catalogs were Social Media in Print

29 January 201829 January 2018|Uncategorized

The way brands focus on the idea of “community building” in their digital marketing today, you’d think this generation invented the idea. Not so, according to Lorraine Boissoneault in The Smithsonian. Boissoneault shares a short excerpt from the July 1907...

Qontra Hapna with You? This Week’s Free Friday Fonts go European.

26 January 201809 November 2021|design

This week we go across the pond for our Free Friday Fonts, visiting the works of designers in Eastern Europe and the UK.First up is Qontra by Slovenian graphic designer Tomaz Hrastar. This condensed sans serif font has low contrast,...

The Depressing Truth about Screen-addicted Kids

25 January 201810 November 2021|Digital

We are raising a generation of unhappy kids. There are all sorts of places to put the blame, and much of it is out of our daily control. But there is one area that you can control, and it could...

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