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Time Inc., Condé Nast, Hearst and other publishers get their Newsstand apps...

The release of iOS 7 last year taught many magazine publishers an important lesson: work with the beta versions of ne software to make sure your apps will continue to function It amazes me how far...

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Shareability tops Conde Nast’s video wish list

This article, written for an audience of documentary filmmakers, gives a nice window into Conde Nast's thinking about what works in video and how audiences prefer to consume content from brands like...

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Know Your Rights: A Conversation With Hearst’s Ellen Payne

Publishers today are handling more content than ever, signal switching between a host of platforms, channels and distribution networks. Often overlooked amid all the words, music, video and photographs...

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PRSS Digital Magazine Platform Acquired By Apple

Apple has acquired Dutch digital magazine startup Prss, a platform that makes it easy to create iPad-compatible magazines using tools that don't require any knowledge of code. The company is...

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Moody’s paints a bleak picture for newspapers and magazines in the U.S.

The credit ratings service Moody's has published a bleak report on the near future of the U.S. newspaper and magazine publishing industries, predicting negative growth through mid-2015. "Our outlook...

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The invasion of corporate news

A population of 100,000 is no longer a guarantee that a city like Richmond, California can sustain a thriving daily paper. Readers have drifted from the tactile pleasures of print to the digital...

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You Won’t Finish This Article

I'm going to keep this brief, because you're not going to stick around for long. I've already lost a bunch of you. For every 161 people who landed on this page, about 61 of you-38 percent-are already...

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Where’s the hope for magazines? Mobile

During August, mobile magazine sites received 234 million unique views, according to the first set of data from Magazine Media 360⁰, the new magazine industry measurement system from the MPA.

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Bloomberg Politics kicks off

Bloomberg’s new politics vertical kicked off on Sunday with a splashy new website and features, including a piece about Jeb Bush’s presidential ambitions and a video of Rep. Nancy Pelosi testing out...

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Google’s Newsstand move may lead to more aggregated content apps

The lack of progress in improving the Newsstand, combined with the news of the acquisition of a platform, has some wondering if Apple plans on introducing their own app that aggregates content and...

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IDG’s Social Media Marketing Success Story

IDG worked with Samsung late last year to promote the company’s 10.1 Galaxy Note tablet. For Samsung, the goals were clear: promote the product during the holiday season in order to reach the...

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Should publishers take down controversial posts?

To unpublish — or not to unpublish. That’s the question for publishers that really step in it with regrettable content that sets off the Social Media Outrage Industrial Complex.

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Christian Science Monitor plans Passcode, a cybersecurity vertical

Coming soon (-ish, by January of next year at the latest) The Christian Science Monitor will launch its first vertical, Passcode a "modern field guide to security and privacy."

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The 10% digital-to-print rule: what is success in digital publishing?

There is an ongoing debate concerning what exactly a digital-only publisher should expect in sales when they decide to launch their first publication.

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Google releases hundreds of free icons

If you publish on the web (and who doesn't?) it's always nice to find a source for guilt-free graphics.

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Mobile innovation: Using the iTunes Newsstand to promote digital subscriptions

There has been a quiet suggestion in recent weeks that the iTunes Newsstand is somehow letting publishers down.

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Google Loves Print, This We Know, For Its Guidelines Tell Us So

A leaked internal document reveals Google's predilection for the web sites of print-media publishers.

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Video Interview: Elana Schlenker of Gratuitous Type

Need a reminder of why you love magazines? This interview with Elana Schlenker just might do the trick.

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Inside Bloomberg Media’s digital video business

Half a year has elapsed since Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith called digital video “a golden asset,” promising “large bets” on video content and distribution

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BuzzFeed’s choice of publisher says a lot about how the site looks at media

As Re/Code has reported, BuzzFeed named its vice-president of growth, Dao Nguyen, to the newly created position of publisher - but founder and CEO Jonah Peretti points out in an internal memo that this...

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