National Geographic won big last night at the Ellies, the National Magazine Awards presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors. This is an event I’ve never attended, but it sounds like a lot of fun, especially based on all the hashtag Ellies tweeting I saw going on late into the evening! One magazine that [...]
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National Geographic and other Ellies winners
Posted: May 10, 2011 in Articles, For EditorsTags: AdAge, American Society of Magazine Editors, Backpacker, Ellies, ESPN The Magazine, Magazine, National Geographic, National Magazine Award, New York, New Yorker, photography, The New Yorker, W
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Bloomberg Businessweek: The invigoration of a staple
Posted: April 17, 2011 in Articles, Magazine: Business, RedesignsTags: App Store, Bloomberg Businessweek, BloombergBusinessweek, BusinessWeek, digital publication, Executive MBA, iPad, Jonathan Ive, layoffs, Magazine, Michael Bloomberg, Publishing, Redesign
I don’t like to see people get fired. Especially when I feel attached to them. When Michael Bloomberg took over BusinessWeek, I swore it off. I had gotten BusinessWeek free for three years as part of my Executive MBA program. I loved it. I would spend a couple of hours every week reading it, fantasizing [...]
Cover Design: What Makes a Winning Magazine Cover
Posted: March 8, 2011 in Articles, For Editors, magazines, publishing, RedesignsTags: Design, Folio, GOOD, Inc., Magazine, Magazine covers, Zach Frechette
What makes a cover tick? Its artistic merit? Stop-you-in-your-tracks cover blurbs? Incredible colors? Clever photography? None of the above. What makes a cover tick is its readers’ desire to pick up the issue, open the magazine and plunk down cold, hard cash. Sucks, huh? We editors and designers think we have it all figured out. [...]
5 Things That Make The Daily for iPad Rock
Posted: February 6, 2011 in Articles, magazines, publishingTags: Apple, Facebook, Flipboard, Graphic design, iPad, Magazine, Rupert Murdoch, Super Bowl, The Daily, Twitter, Zinio
As someone who has been watching the publishing world try to figure out how to take advantage of the digital revolution, I couldn’t wait to see the much anticipated The Daily for iPad. I wondered if I would care more about it than I do the magazines on Zinio. Because here’s my deal with the [...]
4 Things Every Editor’s Note Should Have
Posted: September 3, 2010 in Articles, For EditorsTags: Andy Corty, Editing, Editors, Florida Trend, Magazine, Mark Howard, Publishing
In my very short period of time officially reviewing magazines for The Sidebar Review, I’ve noticed how strongly I felt about something and didn’t even realize it. I run across really great editor’s notes in magazines — and then I run across the ones that lack the personality, insight and appeal that editor’s notes should [...]
