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The Ambitious Plan to Open Up a Treasure Trove of Black History
The Johnson Publishing Company produced iconic magazines including Ebony and Jet and its archive is regarded as one of the most significant collections of 20th century Black American culture. The archive contains around 5,000 magazines, 200 boxes of business records, 10,000 audio and visual recordings, and 4.5 million prints and negatives that chronicle Black life from the 1940s until the present day.
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The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell
In the early 1990s, David wrote a proposal for a book about his life and adventures in publishing, covering the founding of PC Magazine, PC World, Macworld, and more. The book didn't happen, but the proposal is good reading in itself.
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The End of Computer Magazines in America
They were the last two extant U.S. computer magazines that had managed to cling to life until now. With their abandonment of print, the computer magazine era has officially ended.
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Will the Millennials Save Playboy?
The Hefners are gone, and so is the magazine’s short-lived ban on nudity — as well as virtually anyone on the staff over 35.
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Anthropocene – A Sense of Place Magazine – Medium
The Age of Humans
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Medium and the Future History of Publishing – A Sense of Place Magazine – Medium
The Written World
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National Geographic's Clever New Cover Contains Chilling Warning About Plastics
National Geographic warns of the devastating effects that plastics are having on the planet with a clever cover for its June edition. By Lee Moran.
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Meredith Corp set to announce up to 300 layoffs after Time Inc. purchase: report
Magazine publisher Meredith Corp. is set to lay off between 200 and 300 employees following its merger with Time Inc., according to The Wall Street Journal.
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The Death of Newsweek
The U.S. is losing something as the publication disintegrates—a magazine with guts and heart.
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Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp., Backed by Koch Brothers
Meredith Corporation, the publisher of Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens, clinches a deal in an cash transaction valued at nearly $3 billion. By Sydney Ember and Andrew Ross Sorkin.
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Free: 355 Issues of Galaxy, the Groundbreaking 1950s Science Fiction Magazine
When Galaxy appeared in October 1950, it promised a kind of science-fiction different from the space operas of previous decades… By Ted Mills.
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How The Economist Thinks
Is it fair to trash The Economist? You bet it is. By Nathan J. Robinson.
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Gaming Zines And You
There has always been a history of amateur publications in role-playing games, going back as far as Lee Gold's influential APA zine Alarums & Excursions started in the 70s. With the resurgence of zine publishing there has been an explosion of people publishing zines again, and the RPG field isn't alone in this.
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Why Time’s Trump Cover Is a Subversive Work of Political Art
Photographer Nadav Kander’s cover shot of Donald Trump seems simple enough, but look closer. There’s more to it than you might think. By Jake Romm.
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‘Spy vs. Spy’ Was The Subversive Brainchild of An Exiled Cuban Illustrator
One day a Cuban illustrator walked unannounced into the MAD Magazine offices, and the rest is history. By Eric Grundhauser.
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100 Photos
The Most Influential Images of All Time, As Selected, Researched and Extensively Documented by Time Magazine.
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The Descent of the Left Press: From IF Stone to The Nation
Just about fifty years ago when I was becoming politicized around the war in Vietnam, I began searching desperately for information and analysis that could explain why this senseless war was taking place… By Louis Proyect.
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How Arianna Huffington Lost Her Newsroom
The Huffington Post’s namesake founder, who stepped down as editor in chief last month, built an iconic media company in record time. Then, after a decade at the helm, she left suddenly. By William D. Cohan.
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The Fugitive, His Dead Wife, and the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory That Explains Everything
He worked for FEMA at ground zero, but then Kurt Sonnenfeld became a suspect in the mysterious and high-profile death of his wife. Now he's found a new life in South America and become a folk hero by telling an amazing story about the World Trade Center attacks. Did Sonnenfeld get away with murder, or is he just an innocent abroad? Evan Hughes tracked him down in Argentina and asked the big questions...
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A personal tour of MAD magazine, in the crucible of a young life
Inside the lobby of MAD magazine was an orange naugahyde couch, an old standing ashtray next to it, like the kind in train stations when people dressed up to travel, and a larger-than-life statue of Alfred E. Neuman, patron saint of adolescent parody, in a pith helmet and safari fatigues. Dad approached the nonplussed receptionist and, with all the insincere aplomb of the 1960s campus subversive he is and always will be, said directly, "We're here for the tour," and waited for the answer. We got it.
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