The Media Drop

Wayyyy back in March, we heard that CRACKED magazine would be relaunching sometime this year with a spankin’ new website and a bit more multimedia than its previous iteration. Well, it’s here, and ready for your online enjoyment. As of right now, you’ll have to wait 103 days, 6 hours, 32 minutes until the print […]

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Last week, I had a conversation with Rex Hammock about an effort related to Hurricane Katrina relief, and he informed me very briefly about a conversation he was having with the publisher of a magazine out of Louisiana who was in a tough spot in the aftermath of the regional disaster. Yesterday, he wrote about […]

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Nashua, New Hampshire’s Telegraph has a story this week by Eileen Kennedy that celebrates Yankee magazine’s longevity - and adaptation. Kennedy points out that the publication is now podcasting a column by its editor, and that it hasn’t succumbed to so-called “big media,” existing as a standalone magazine with a wide distribution

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The Associated Press is reporting that the September issue of National Geographic will carry no photograph on the cover.

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It’s pretty rare that a new site can show up on the scene and have the National Review’s Corner blog link to them twice in just a matter of minutes. But that’s what happened with The F-Word Zine, a feminist magazine that is the brainchild of Melody Berger, a senior at Temple University.
That’s what’s good […]

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Last month, news came out that Niche Media was having a bit of difficulty with another publisher whose staffers had moved over to that company, bringing their mailing list along with them. Wednesday’s Boston Herald reports that Niche publisher Jason Binn has owned up to using the list, and the lawsuit filed against his company […]

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Radar Online wants to know how Reader’s Digest managed to get its hands on Tom Cruise for an interview in this month’s issue. You see, the pocket-sized magazine had a bit of a scuffle a few years back with the Church of Scientology, which Cruise is a member. Radar states that Reader’s Digest got in […]

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A little more than a year ago, the cranking out of specialized magazines was lava-hot with new publications popping up all over the place. If some stats thrown out there by BusinessWeek’s Pallavi Gogoi are any indication, that still seems to be the case today. Though that doesn’t mean that the magazines are staying on […]

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According to the Boston Globe’s Mark Jurkowitz, publisher Niche Media just can’t do anything right of late. After working their way out of one lawsuit, they’re getting hit with another by Boston magazine for grabbing a list of advertisers from that publication through employees that have since signed on with Niche.

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By now everyone’s heard at least a tidbit or two about the whole Newsweek disaster surrounding their report that a copy of the Koran was destroyed during interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. K. Paul Mallasch has a good roundup on the situation, and Instapundit seems to be a rip-roaring good time for the subject as […]

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