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"If you're reading this, it's a safe bet you read magazines."

the man of twists and turns — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:07:01 -0800

The Art Of Making Magazines "By making what they call "not a how-to book, but… a how-to-think-about-it-book," they help us look at something we've probably been taking for granted: What is a magazine?"

Its mission was to explain America to itself

zarq — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:12:46 -0800

The First Rough Draft of History: A Behind-the-Scenes History of Newsweek Magazine

A Chat With Jon Ronson

the man of twists and turns — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:06:35 -0800

But I couldn't do it. I spent three months and I just couldn't do it. And the reason was because I kept on meeting people who worked in the credit industry and they were really boring. I couldn't make them light up the page. And, as I said in The Psychopath Test, if you want to get away with wielding true malevolent power, be boring. Journalists hate writing about boring people, because we want to look good, you know?

A Chat With Writer Jon Ronson Addicted To Weird - An Interview With Jon Ronson

I think there are themes and the biggest theme, for me anyway, is how everybody in the book, including me, feel in some way as if they’re lost at sea, and are grasping for something to get them through. And the thing that they often grasp for is something that’s kind of irrational, makes no sense, is ridiculous. But the book is never, I hope, condescending. It’s always kind of empathetic. And it becomes almost a celebration of irrationality as a human character trait to be cherished. Other themes come through which really interest me. People’s fear of humiliation is a weird recurrent theme. The number of times people in the book — I noticed this when I was doing the audiobook for Audible — the number of times people say, “The thing that I was most afraid of in life was being humiliated or looking stupid, and here it was coming true.”

Ronson is the author of Them: Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare at Goats, The Psychopath Test and Lost at Sea. Jon Ronson also wrote 'Amber Waves Of Grain' - previously, 'DIY Science' - previously, and 'Clear Eyes, Full Plates, Can't Puke' - previously

The Craziest Magazine Ever

reenum — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:53:55 -0800

The Police Gazette had it all: misogyny, violence, racism, and venereal disease. It was yellow journalism concentrated into its purest form (SL Cracked List).

Capote profiles Brando

Trurl — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:21:40 -0800

"The Duke in His Domain" - a profile of Marlon Brando by Truman Capote, published in The New Yorker, November 9, 1957

2011 ASME Awards

AceRock — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:05:45 -0800

2011 National Magazine Awards Finalists Announced (Instapaperable list) Direct links: Feature Writing

The Wrong Man (David Freed, The Atlantic)
On the man wrongfully accused of the 2001 anthrax attacks. The Suicide Catcher (Michael Paterniti, GQ)
On the angel who saves jumpers on an infamous bridge in China. The End (Ben Ehrenreich, Los Angeles)
Death in L.A. can be an odd undertaking. The Mark of a Masterpiece (David Grann, New Yorker)
The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art. For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question
(Mac McClelland, Mother Jones)
The young men who risk life and limb to document Burma’s genocide.

Reporting

The Guantánamo “Suicides” (Scott Horton, Harper’s)
A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle. Is Yemen the Next Afghanistan?
(Robert F. Worth, NYT Magazine) Covert Operations (Jane Mayer, New Yorker)
The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama The Runaway General (Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone)
The profile that got Stanley McChrystal fired Digging Out (Elliot D. Woods, VQR)
Afghans’ best hope for their future might be right under their feet.

Profile Writing

Autism’s First Child
(John Donvan and Caren Zucker, The Atlantic)
The long, happy, surprising life of the first person diagnosed with autism. Joan Rivers Always Knew She Was Funny
(Jonathan Van Meter, New York) The Man the White House Wakes Up To
(Mark Leibovich, NYT Magazine)
On Politico’s Mike Allen. The Unconsoled (George Packer, New Yorker)
On Israeli writer David Grossman. “God Help You, You’re on Dialysis”
(Robin Fields, ProPublica)
Why do one in four people on dialysis die? Letting Go (Atul Gawande, New Yorker)
What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? What’s the Catch? (Bruce Barcott, On Earth)
Sustainable fishing in the Bering Sea. Innocence Lost (Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly)
The story of Anthony Graves, an innocent man behind bars for nearly 20 years. Innocence Found (Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly)
How Anthony Graves found freedom.

Essays, Criticism, Personal Service

Solitude and Leadership
(William Deresiewicz, The American Scholar) Lust, Devotion, & the Binary Code
(Kamin Mohammadi, VQR) The (Surprising) Truth About Salt
(Rachel Moeller Gorman, Good Housekeeping) The Blood Test Gets a Makeover (Steven Leckart, Wired)

Music and Modern Media Archive

netbros — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:07:24 -0800

The CBC Radio 3 Digital Magazine ran from November 2002 until March 2005, garnering numerous accolades in Canada and abroad with its unique blend of music, journalism, literature and photography. Here is the complete archive of 105 issues. Over the course of its brief run, the magazine won over 20 awards, including one Art Directors Club award, two New York Festival Awards and three Communication Arts Awards, and was featured in several web and design books. In 2003, the groundbreaking website won three Webby Awards in a single year: Best Broadband Site, Best Radio Site and the People's Voice Award for Best Broadband Site. [previously on MeFi]

J-School Confidential

reenum — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:54:26 -0800

An oldie, but a goodie: Michael Lewis goes to Columbia's School of Journalism to see what such schools actually do to prepare their students.

But do they have any bottlecaps?

The Whelk — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:26:11 -0800

"Places like Picher are why Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980—better known as the Superfund bill." - Wired Magazine on the most toxic town in America, Picher, OK , and the people who still live there

The Best Magazine Articles Ever

reenum — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:26:34 -0800

Kevin Kelly has posted a list of what he believes are the best magazine articles ever.

Long form journalism on the Web is "not working."

thisisdrew — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:17:20 -0800

Long form journalism on the Web is "not working." - TIME.com Managing Editor Josh Tyrangiel ..Among the detractors of this statement is David Sleight, Deputy Creative Director of BusinessWeek.com: "Really? It’s 2009 and we’re still having this conversation?" Scattered industry advice on this topic varies from moderate to extreme, and while web analytics paint a convincing picture of web readers, some wonder if long form journalism has EVER worked. Of course there seem to be other factors at play, like methods of presentation and quality of content.

No More SciAm

rosswald — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:33:58 -0800

The death of SciAm. It's no secret that print media is getting hit pretty hard, but the butchering of Scientific American seems particularly brutal. More opinion on the poor state of affairs in science journalism BloggingHeads discussion on the future of science journalism with Carl Zimmer and Chris Mooney Some idiots blame the blogosphere

Creative Contemporary Photojournalism

netbros — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:53:37 -0800

Lunatic Magazine is a bi-annual online photo magazine presenting new work of photographers from around the world. Lunatic offers the opportunity to photographers to promote original stories, images, and photojournalism. (Issue1, Issue2, Issue3)

Ideas in the Air

Miko — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:13:46 -0800

To The Best Of Our Knowledge is one of the most wide-ranging and literate public radio shows in the US, a two-hour "radio salon" featuring leisurely exploration of weekly themes like No Smoking, Identity Crisis, Weekend, and The Mind, Music, and Math. Host Jim Fleming approaches these big ideas through the works of authors - journalists of all stripes, memoirists, poets, fiction writers, essayists. Five years' worth of shows are available on audio archives; you can also search the impressive list of authors by name, or subscribe to the podcast. To the best of my knowledge, episodes from the show have been linked in relevant post topics, and the show has been mentioned in comments, but has not yet been the subject of its own post. Of course I could be wrong; I often am.

Now that Premiere's Gone

klangklangston — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:44:53 -0800

Cashiers du Cinemart. Film Threat's Dave Williams: "a thin, primitive hobby publication with an obvious ax to grind; making it far less interesting than you think it is, and compelling me to conclude it's impossible for you to ever get your shit together...killing one more tree for your pointless, directionless, self-aggrandizing 'zine with nothing to offer is a sad, selfish waste." Best known for the Anti-Tarantino saga, one man's quest to get a director to acknowledge his influences, Cashiers is a great '90s 'zine with archives online.

Germaine Greer on posing for Diane Arbus

matteo — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:11:35 -0800

Wrestling with Diane Arbus "She set up no lights, just pulled out her Rolleiflex, which was half as big as she was, checked the aperture and the exposure, and tested the flash. Then she asked me to lie on the bed, flat on my back on the shabby counterpane. I did as I was told. Clutching the camera she climbed on to the bed and straddled me, moving up until she was kneeling with a knee on both sides of my chest. She held the Rolleiflex at waist height with the lens right in my face. She bent her head to look through the viewfinder on top of the camera, and waited".