Who’s gonna buy Rolling Stone?
Someone’s going to buy Jann Wenner’s Rolling Stone, and according to Peter Kafka at Recode it’s down to three bidders: “a publisher best known for trade magazines, another publisher that… Read more »
Why censor environmental information when you can abolish it?
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s proposal to slash state spending by eliminating a self-funding magazine published by the state’s Department of Natural Resources is provoking calls of bullshit from former agency… Read more »
You can now read Playboy in public, and sales are up
When Playboy, that classic dirty magazine of your parents’ (and grandparents’) generation, announced their decision to stop publishing photos of nude women last winter, it seemed a very belated concession… Read more »
Brewery starts literary mag for those who “like to think and drink”
The founder of Delaware-based brewing company Dogfish Head, Sam Calagione, has a habit of describing his product as “analog beer for the digital age.” Now, according to the company’s website, the former English major… Read more »
NME will be free! Britain’s most notorious music magazine embraces the Time Out model
Why, as an adolescent, did I spend so much time reading NME, aka the New Musical Express, aka Great Britain’s most excitable, overheated, and temperamental music magazine? Perhaps because the… Read more »
Literary Editor Mark Amory retires from The Spectator, but will he be replaced? (UPDATE: He has been replaced.)
UPDATE: Sam Leith has just been named literary editor of The Spectator. Mark Amory, the literary editor of The Spectator magazine, has announced his retirement. In a farewell letter printed in the paper… Read more »
Brief notes on The New Yorker redesign
When The New Yorker was founded, in 1925, by Harold Ross, it was conceived as both a bastion and a parody of cosmopolitan sophistication: As Ross famously put it in… Read more »
Spare Rib returns: radical feminist magazine relaunching this month
The British radical feminist magazine Spare Rib is set to relaunch later this month after being out of print for 20 years. At the helm will be journalist Charlotte Raven; also involved… Read more »