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Sure, we’ve had “Special Advertising Sections” and advertorial sections in print magazines forever. And while those same sections are easy to reproduce in digital replicas of magazines, they don’t exactly take advantage of the digital format to provide interactive, intriguing
I recently published a study on a magazine that is a bit outside the usual purview of magazine journalism research: the digital magazine Inspire, published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. This project offered a fascinating interdisciplinary opportunity to test
[I wrote this in June when the Wired premiere issue was distributed as an iPad edition, but didn't get around to finishing it promptly because (as I mention below) I had to wait for-ev-er for the issue to download, and
I haven’t blogged much this summer because I’ve been hard at work on a research project, funded through a Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant at Linfield. The grant has given me the chance to purchase magazines for analysis and — best
I have a new story up at PBS MediaShift about the successes and travails faced by independent iPad magazine publishers. I had a great time learning about what these indie publishers are doing, and the ways they are trying to
I have a new post up at PBS MediaShift about Magpile, a new social network designed around the love of the print magazine. As founder Dan Rowden said: “I don’t want Magpile to become somewhere that digital is ‘the thing,’
I have a new post up at PBS MediaShift, covering a new development at digital magazine company Zinio. Zinio is now creating Content Collections: Zinio staff highlight a selection of articles from Zinio’s digital magazine offerings, mixing and matching stories
I just finished reading a recent magazine. It featured a significant food section, with decadent recipes and attractive food photography. I flipped past those pages in record time to get to something more interesting. Why? These recipes had no story. Most
I have a new post at PBS MediaShift this morning, examining some creative ways magazines are using Pinterest. I tried to go beyond the standard boards that it seems every major magazine has created on the site to find some
I was honored to be asked to present some thoughts on preparing students for working on digital magazines at this weekend’s Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Southeast Colloquium at Virginia Tech. I was on a panel with