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I remember buying this for 25p when I was a schoolkid, when it was cut and pasted together and every box had a drop shadow and every footballer had a nickname. Not like now. Now they just have surnames…
Another great loss: IPC has announced that it’s closing down Shoot after forty years of history. It [...]

Yesterday I wrote about protests by publishers and car manufacturers against plans by the EU to introduce compulsory rules governing pollution info on car advertising. In last night’s 7pm Channel Four flagship news programme, the producers covered the story (good) but relegated it to the ‘And Finally…’ slot (bad) generally reserved for the more lighthearted [...]

What do you think of this advert?*
Now, does it conform to what you would consider responsible advertising? Does it (thanks Leo Hickman) meet Advertising Standards Authority’s code of practice section 2.2. “All marketing communications should be prepared with a sense of responsibility to consumers and to society.” Well, yes, unfortunately it probably does, unless you’re [...]

Yesterday I looked at the copy content in the launch of Standpoint, the new politics/business monthly magazine edited by former Telegraph associate editor Daniel Johnson, with launch articles from a number of neocon names and Telegraph writers that did nothing to support Johnson’s claim that it is a magazine of both the Left and Right.
The [...]

As reported by The Observer on Sunday, today sees the launch of the much anticipated Standpoint, a new monthly magazine with a relatively unambiguous editorial position.
According to its editor, former Telegraph assoicate editor Daniel Johnson, Standpoint will “defend and celebrate Western Civilisation”. In an interview with the New Culture Forum, Johnson says that “I think [...]

Have I said I love magazine covers? Esquire’s May 2008 magazine reimagines the 1965 cover that pictured Italian actress Virna Lisi, in town filming Assault on a Queen with Frank Sinatra. Shaving. In the magazine shoot, not the film.
The story in Esquire is told by the art director at the time, George Lois, [...]

The hymn-book of the Stetson-wearing businessman, Time magazine, has used its cover to make a loud pronouncement on climate change.
In its 84-year history, the newsweekly has only twice swapped its red border for another colour. Volume 171, No.17 has gone green for its April 28 issue, its third annual special environment issue.
The last time Time [...]

Q. What do you think are the benefits for new magazine journalists of a specific, skills-based vocational degree in journalism? (Add your comment below)
Having worked as a magazine journalist since 1994, both in print and online, and having now taught since 2005, I am passionate about making sure that our students get the best industry-relevant [...]

The New Statesman magazine published an article by David Whitehouse on 19th Dec ‘Has Global Warming Stopped?’ which claimed that the science on CO2 emissions was wrong, and that the world was not heating up in the manner that we now, generally, understand. Whitehouse stated that, based on his analysis of the data:
Global warming has, [...]

Back in 2005 I wrote an article on hyperreality and arrogance for a website set up by some Masters-level peers at Oxford, where I used an old colleague’s arrogance as the example to explain Baudrillard’s theory of hyperreality, something I taught during Magazine Theory classes at Middlesex Uni. I was reminded of it tonight while [...]