Reader complaints are finally being heard and taken seriously. Just two month after Vogue vowed to ban models who are underage and too skinny from their pages, Seventeen is responding to similar calls to action. Julia Blumh, a 14-year old girl from Maine was fed up with Photoshopped models littering the pages of fashion magazines [...]
While many magazines only started this year to embrace the mobile 2D code technique of activating print with smartphones, Allure is already in its third year of a massive annual multi-platform project. The August ‘Free Stuff’ Issue is brimming with daily opportunities for readers to scan a Microsoft Tag and enter [...]
W, Condé’s upscale fashion magazine is about to get a revamp. Not so much in style and content, but more along the lines of staff. For a while now, W has been straddling Condé Nast and Farichild. The publishing side reported to Condé, while the editorial side reported to Fairchild. With Patrick McCarthy, chairman of [...]
The numbers are small, but growing, of people willing to pay $2.99 for an iPhone-app-version of an issue of GQ magazine. “Condé Nast President-CEO Charles Townsend has said that the app platform it has developed is mainly a way to get in position to play on tablets.” Advertising Age Jan. 21, 2010
While Condé Nast’s Portfolio, the glossy, covered big business and its celebrity elite, the new Portfolio.com provides service journalism for small business owners. The site now features content from some 40 local, weekly business journals and websites of American City Business Journals — itself a unit of Advance Publications. The New York Times Dec. 7, [...]
The publisher reported a year-over-year decline of 8,359 pages, roughly one third, according to estimates it released Wednesday. The New York Times Nov. 11, 2009