The Surprising Stats Behind the Decline in Print Ads this Year
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Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni has a way of getting down to the root of things; it’s one of the reasons we are such big fans of Husni’s blog here at Freeport Press. As an example, he recently took 16 of...
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When Science Just Disappears – a Digital Disaster
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Call it the stuff of scientific nightmares. No, we aren’t talking about walkers, incurable diseases or artificial intelligence run amok. It’s much simpler than that – and it actually happened. “Epidemiologist Kay Dickersin joined The Online Journal of Current Clinical...
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A Fresh Way to Look at Your Publishing Channel Mix
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According to Mike Koedinger, founder of independent media company Maison Moderne, the Print Proud, Digital Smart mantra rings true in some highly specific ways. The publisher of Paperjam, the company’s flagship print product, recently spoke to Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni...
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Hot Off the Press – the 2018/19 Innovation Report
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Wondering what the rest of the publishing world is up to? Then lay your hands on a copy of the 2018/19 edition of Innovation in Magazine Media World Report, just launched this week at the Digital Innovators’ Summit (DIS) in...
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Detox from Digital with the #TravelUnplugged Pledge
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We are tethered to our digital devices like never before. One company aims to change that with a digital detox campaign. According to one travel guide publisher, we all spend waaaay to much time on our smartphones and computers: “…...
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Thanks, Digital Age, for Making Print Better
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Modern print owes a debt of gratitude to digital, according to Francis McMahon, SVP of the Business Imaging Solutions Group at Canon U.S.A. “With the ‘digital noise’ that clouds our everyday lives, businesses and individuals alike are being forced to...
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Media and Marketing Execs Face their Digital Reckoning
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It was just one year ago that Proctor & Gamble’s Marc Pritchard presented the company’s get-tough plan to his fellow execs at the IAB’s annual leadership meeting in Florida. “The days of giving digital a pass are over,” he said at the...
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Buzzfeed Lays off 100 and Ad-funded Online Journalism Takes its Lumps
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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...
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The Depressing Truth about Screen-addicted Kids
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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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Survey Says … We Just Don’t Trust Digital
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The news is inescapable – data breaches, website hacks, millions of U.S. consumers hit by the Equifax hack. Clearly, digital has a problem when it comes to assuring our collective data privacy. The recent consumer survey from Two Sides shows...
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