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The Banner Ad Still Has Some Growing Up To Do

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

I'm the father of a 13-year-old boy. For those of you who can relate, the voice, the body, the attitude … it's all changing and, quite frankly, it's scaring the hell out of me! Less than two years before my son was born,...

What’s the Best Way to Correct a Mistake?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Mistakes are good, they help us grow. They show us what we need to know. So when you make mistakes, don't cry. You'll get better if you try. My 10-year-old daughter wrote me this when she was in kindergarten and I still have it hanging...

Does Print Have "One Life to Live?"

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

A younger colleague told me recently that "only old people" watch boxing and that mixed martial arts (MMA) is what anyone under 30 is into these days. Kind of like what some people think about print newspapers or magazines, I thought....

Coverage of MPA’s American Magazine Conference

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Publishing Executive Inbox Editor Matt Steinmetz attended MPA’s “American Magazine Conference” in Boca Raton, Fla. this week, where he sat in on Monday and Tuesday’s conference sessions and events. MONDAY, OCTOBER 29...

Coverage of MPA’s American Magazine Conference

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EDT

AMC Update, Part 4

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Tuesday’s theme at AMC is clearly engaging your audience, by whatever means you have at your disposal. Social networking, user-generated comments and content, video … the list goes on. The important thing to remember when trying to...

Newsweek Prints O.J. Book Excerpt

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

Newsweek has obtained a chapter of O.J. Simpson’s “If I Did It,” which all copies were supposedly destroyed of when HarperCollins cancelled the release of the “fictional” tell-all in November. The magazine’s...

PC World Magazine Editor Fatally Shot

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

PC World Magazine’s senior editor Rex Farrance was found dead on Wednesday , the victim of an alleged drug-related attack, police said.

Not Really a Shock: Shock Magazine Print Edition Now History

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

The staff of Shock received an early Christmas present last week when they discovered an e-mail sitting in their inboxes with news that the magazine would no longer be published. The magazine’s Web site will continue to operate, the...

Editorial Guidelines to Separate Church and State

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT

In my editor’s note in Publishing Executive, September 2007 (“’Pay to Play’ OK in the Digital World?”), I posed some questions about the separation of church and state in digital products. There have been...

The Best Publishing Companies to Work for

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Whenever I saw Fortune ’s annual list of “Best Companies to Work For” come out, I always wished there was such a list for the publishing industry. Many times, when perusing the job market, I knew next to nothing about many...

Is There Enough Time for Digital Pursuits, Continued

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

In my editor’s note, ”Is There Enough Time for Digital Pursuits,” in the June issue of Publishing Executive magazine, I commented on a recent blog post by our resident blogger Rob Yoegel. In the post ”Editors...