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Golf Digest Adds Interaction, Depth, E-Commerce to iPad App
It seemed like the first-delivered iPad was hardly unsheathed from its box before News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, apparently unfazed by a rich past of misguided forays into Internet ventures, announced...
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Teaching Magazine Journalism Beyond the Magazine
While magazine industry professionals struggle to come up with the best ways to use today's technology, magazine journalism educators are working hard to prepare their aspiring co-workers. Journalism...
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Once Magazine Takes the Photo Magazine into the App World
Photographers who might have aspired to see their work published on the glossy pages of a magazine can now opt for the glossy screen of an iPad. Once Magazine, a "visual storytelling" app for the iPad,...
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Truth and Contradictions: The Global News Industry Looks to the Future
In recent years, the global news industry has been battered by the double tsunami of the economic downturn and technological disruption, as managers of newspapers and magazines struggle to integrate...
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Finding the Right Blend of Print and Digital at Meredith's Recipe.com
I'll take the Florentine lasagna, please, with a 2D barcode and a mobile app on the side. Food magazines pride themselves on delectable recipes and luscious photography. Recipe.com, whose title is also...
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Getting a Tablet Is Easy; Getting Digital Magazines Is a Pain
Buying that new iPad, Kindle or Nook for Christmas is just the first step to becoming a digital magazine reader. While shopping for books and movies is a fairly straightforward process, getting your...
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For Better and for Worse: The Changing World of Science Journalism
MediaShift's science journalism coverage is sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School, which offers an innovative specialized M.A. for experienced journalists who want to cover science, business,...
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Ladies' Home Journal Ventures Into Bold Crowdsourcing Experiment
In 1900, Ladies' Home Journal published an article containing predictions for the year 2000. Though some of the author's predictions were accurate -- Americans are indeed taller, and photographs are...
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Why Esquire Created a Trailer for the Zanesville Animal Escape Story
Lights, camera ... magazine article? Esquire recently released a 46-second video trailer for a story in its March print edition, available on newsstands yesterday: "Animals," by Chris Jones, a feature...
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Mediatwits #41: 'The New iPad'; Newspaper Culture Clashes; NewYorker.com's...
Welcome to the 41st episode of the Mediatwits podcast, this time with Mark Glaser and the George Kelly as co-hosts. Kelly is online coordinator at the Contra Costa Times newspaper and is filling in...
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5 Creative Strategies for Magazines to Use Pinterest
Despite what you may have observed, you can pin more on Pinterest than recipes, home décor, fashion, and enough DIY projects for a lifetime. Much has already been written about magazines' use of...
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Spain's iPad Mag, Vis à Vis, Shows Growth, Points to New Path
In a small office in Alcala Street, in the center of Madrid, a team of seven young entrepreneurial journalists are working overtime to produce the next issue of digital magazine Vis à Vis. Conceived...
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An iTunes Playlist for Magazine Articles? Zinio Thinks Outside the Brand
How many ways can you sell magazine content? In the rapidly changing world of digital magazines, we've seen all kinds of variations: multimedia apps, digital replicas, individual stories, single...
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Magpile Brings Social Sharing to Print Magazine Enthusiasts
Reading a print magazine doesn't have to be a lonely experience anymore. Magpile, a new social site for magazine lovers, offers enthusiastic readers a place to share their favorite magazines and...
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Lessons Learned From Indie iPad Magazine Publishers
It seems like publishing a digital magazine on the iPad should be pretty easy. With some basic design skills, time, and a bit of money, publishing an independent iPad magazine is possible. But being...
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How National Geographic Used Cowbird Storytelling Tool to Tell a...
Sometimes, it takes more than one storyteller to get a story right -- especially when the subjects of the story are members of a community that often feels misrepresented by media. Thanks to multimedia...
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9 Lessons From Lewis D'Vorkin's Push to Remake Forbes Online
This column is another in my series on new business models for news. An update and correction to this story appear below. Amid its larger company struggles, Forbes has been trying to change, adapt and...
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Every few odd weeks or months, a story pondering the future of magazines resurfaces, generating an updated round of debate on this form of print media we aren't ready to let go. While recent pieces...
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Why Newsweek Needs More Than Just a Digital Shift
The following is a commentary by PBS MediaShift contributor Devin Harner. Newsweek's cover story last week declared that "Heaven Is Real," at least according to a previously skeptical neurosurgeon who...
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Mediatwits #60: Newsweek Kills Print; Circa Rethinks Mobile News; BlackBerry...
Welcome to the 60th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, with Mark Glaser and Rafat Ali as co-hosts. We were recording the podcast when the big news came down that Newsweek had decided to end its print...
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