There is a new trend in the media business. Some media born on the Internet decide to proceed with print editions. The Los Angeles Times gives some examples and draws on contributions from experts who explain the main motivations for passing from the online to the paper format.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Created only a year ago, in digital format, Tech City News decided to create a magazine. Will be published 10,000 copies of each edition every three months.
Source: journalism.co.uk
The Guardian launched a free newspaper,The Long Good Read , that is a collection of a longform Guardian stories.
Source: Nieman Journalism Lab
Newsweek, the legendary American weekly magazine that ceased publication in printed format last year, plans to return to the paper format, according to a report of The New York Times.
After several months of experimenting with a new online format, will be published two paper editions in the months of January and February.
The model is based on a subscriptions system similar to The Economist.
Source: The New York Times
New York magazine will no longer be published weekly from March 2014. The decision was announced by the columnist of The New York Times, David Carr.
The magazine will now be published every two weeks. Carr argues that the weeklies no longer make sense in a world in which information is shared in real time.
Source: The New York Times