Why TV Guide Is Thriving as Television Disruption Continues
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It’s not your grandmother’s TV Guide. Gone is the red logo shaped like an old-school TV set. Also gone is the magazine’s original reason for existing – serving as a local channel guide in the pre-cable days. So how is...
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Caffeine Magazine Serves up the Right Brew
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Something very cool has been happening in the magazine industry in the last few years – a spate of tightly targeted independent magazines on lifestyle topics, created by passion-driven publishers eager to share what they love. Among the ranks of...
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Indie Magazines Enjoy Print
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Indie magazines. They’re hip, they’re cool, and they are absolutely revitalizing the magazine industry. We spotted the swing from mass market to niche several years ago, when too many people were still wringing their hands about the changes to our...
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Why We’re Sooo Over the Mean Girls Mentality in Print 
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Sometimes we look at “change” and see decay. Other times, we see new growth and innovation. It depends, of course, on how you view it, and what sources you use to draw your conclusions. For MPA CEO Linda Thomas-Brooks, much...
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The Delicious New Partnership for Meredith and Forks Over Knives
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For Brian Wendel, founder and president of plant-based foodie brand Forks Over Knives, the proof is in the organic, dairy-free pudding, so to speak.  “Forks Over Knives is a brand that empowers people to live healthier lives by changing the...
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What I Noticed in that Mr. Magazine Interview with Good Company Founder Grace Bonney
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In Grace Bonney’s eyes, the design world has a diversity problem.“I think that so often the design world in particular has a very particular audience that tends to be wealthy, it tends to be white, it tends to be someone...
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Print vs. Digital Magazines: What Readers Prefer
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Freeport Press promoted a 10-question survey to magazine readers in North America (demographics chart below). The survey, which was open for three days in September 2018, generated 1,226 responses. Of those responses, 1,141 were solicited through Survey Monkey. The rest were in response...
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Publishers Clap Back at TNG’s Newsstand Bailout Request
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When magazine wholesaler TNG asked major publishers to pony up to rescue their newsstand distribution, the overriding response was “get lost.” To some, it might seem counterintuitive – magazine publishers have relied on the newsstand for decades, and if TNG...
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Husni Riffs on the Global Rise of New Magazines
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Earlier this week we shared an interview with magCulture’s Jeremy Leslie; he was talking to Stack’s Steve Watson about the state of the magazine industry today, and had this to say: “Always in the back of my mind I think...
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The magCulture View of Modern Magazine Publishing
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Jeremy Leslie has pretty strong feelings about the print magazine industry – and he’s not shy about sharing them.  The founder of the magCulture media brand recently stopped into the Stack offices in London to speak wtih Stack's Steve Watson...
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