August 14, 2009
March 18, 2009
Forget the Death of Newspapers, Magazines are Becoming a Form of Radio
Michael Surtees shares some interesting thoughts about the bizarre situation of media shape-shifting that is happening these days. He explains how after he stopped subscribing to the bulky print version of the New York Times, he discovered via micro-blogging site Twitter that the Economist magazine has a word-for-word audio recording of it’s issues available for download. After all this jumping around in different media worlds, Surtees discovers the usefulness of the audio version of the magazine, and sees a future in this kind of media-hybrid.
He explains:
As weird as it is for all the different types of media to be converging [...]
March 11, 2009
Jonah Bloom Of AdAge Talks To PSFK About Skipping The Issue
Advertising Age, the leading trade magazine for the marketing industry, has pulled its March 16 issue. There has been a lot of talk about the decline of print media recently but instead of just reporting another story about how this not only impacts readers but the lives of the people who work there, PSFK decided to find out more about what’s going on internally. We asked Ad Age editor Jonah Bloom for the inside scoop:
Jonah, we’ve heard rumors that the next issue of Ad Age will be digital only – true?
Yes, it’s true. No print issue on March 16th, next [...]




