Special Guest: Sara Nelson
Sara Nelson is a senior contributing editor to Glamour, publishing columnist for the New York Observer, and a veteran book reviewer. Her memoir of a year of reading,So Many Books, So Little Time, will...
View ArticleLook-Look
A magazine called Look-Look publishes paintings, photos, poetry and prose by teenagers. The contributors are full of passion, and their work feels fresh, but the magazine is published by Look-Look,...
View ArticleThe Future of Journalism: Free?
Chris Anderson, editor of "Wired" magazine and author of FREE: The Future of a Radical Price, talks with Brian Lehrer about how the value of information and services is not always best tied to price....
View ArticleAfghan In-Flight Magazine Paints Grim Reality
On any ordinary U.S. airliner, you’re likely to find in the seat pocket in front you an in-flight magazine that romanticizes your destination city. Magazines tend to feature articles with titles like...
View ArticleLabor Dispute Escalates Between Harper's and UAW
2/10 Update: Since this article was published, Harper's has told WNYC that the magazine's management initiated the first bargaining session, not Local 2110. Harper's also said that the former editor...
View ArticleThe Digital Future for Magazines
David Carr, media columnist for the business section of the New York Times, will be talking about the new digital magazine subscription plans from Google and Apple, and how magazines are adapting to...
View ArticleBill Keller on His New Column
Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, discusses his new column in The New York Times Magazine.
View ArticlePop-Up: The Magazine You Can't Hold Comes to New York City
These days, you can read The New York Times six different ways, you can download articles from all around the Web to your Smartphone, and even the Library of Congress is archiving your tweets. So, why...
View ArticleNew York's Frank Rich
New York Magazine columnist Frank Rich discusses his debut column for the magazine after leaving the New York Times as an opinion columnist.→Add Your Comments, Listen and Read a Recap at It's A Free...
View ArticlePhotoshopping the Real Girl Out of the Girl
This week, Seventeen magazine released their “Body Peace Treaty,” which promises to “celebrate every kind of beauty” and “never alter the shape of a girl’s face or body.” The treaty comes in the...
View ArticleThe End of a Classroom Favorite: RIP Weekly Reader
Before blogs, Twitter, and the constant buzzing of the 24-hour news cycle, many students' main source of news was not found online or in bulky newspapers, but in the form of the classroom magazine,...
View ArticleRemembering Helen Gurley Brown
Her 1962 book, "Sex and the Single Girl" was an American revelation: not only did unmarried women have sex, but they liked it, too. And as the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine from 1965-1997, she laid...
View ArticleNewsweek Print Edition Dies
Bob Garfield, co-host of On the Media and author of The Chaos Scenario, and Stephen Shepard, founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, discuss the demise of the print edition of Newsweek...
View ArticleMagazines Contend with End of Saturday Mail Delivery
The U.S. Postal Service’s decision to suspend Saturday delivery is unwelcomed news for the struggling magazine industry. The glossies tend to arrive at the start of the weekend, when readers have more...
View ArticleTime Warner Spinning Off Iconic Magazines
In another sign of the changing media landscape Time Warner is breaking up with Time Inc.The media and entertainment giant announced it will spin-off Time Inc into a separate, publicly traded company....
View ArticleNew Gun Law's Magazine Limit Could Change
The governor and legislative leaders are talking about amendments to the state’s new gun control laws. The Assembly Speaker raised the possibility that a ban on 10 bullet magazines might be reversed,...
View ArticlePlease Come Again: Customer Service Songs
Esopus magazine is known for taking an offbeat look at the worlds of visual art, design and culture. But every installment of the twice-yearly publication also comes with a delightfully conceptual CD...
View ArticleMagazines Contend with End of Saturday Mail Delivery
The U.S. Postal Service’s decision to suspend Saturday delivery is unwelcomed news for the struggling magazine industry. The glossies tend to arrive at the start of the weekend, when readers have more...
View ArticleTime Warner Spinning Off Iconic Magazines
In another sign of the changing media landscape Time Warner is breaking up with Time Inc.The media and entertainment giant announced it will spin-off Time Inc into a separate, publicly traded company....
View ArticleNew Gun Law's Magazine Limit Could Change
The governor and legislative leaders are talking about amendments to the state’s new gun control laws. The Assembly Speaker raised the possibility that a ban on 10 bullet magazines might be reversed,...
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