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
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Given the current crisis of the business model and the need for new strategies that are reflected in profit, the newspaper industry welcomes the purchase of the Washington Post by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
The expectations that Bezos transform the Washington Post in a viable business go far beyond the newspaper itself. Many hope that by saving the newspaper, Bezos find the magic potion that others can copy.
However, Jeff Bezos knows that there is no magic potion and believes that there is a long way to make the business profitable again: “There is a map and draw a path for the future will not be easy. We’ll have to invent, which means that we have to try. ”
Source: Público
The French men’s magazine Lui, founded in 1963 and which marked an era in the sexual revolution until its closure in 1994, will reborn in the digital age.
Twenty years after the disappearance, the magazine will be back by the hands of the advertiser Frédéric Beigbeder. The first issue came out with 200 pages, a price of 2.90 euros and a circulation of 350,000 copies, the same daily circulation of Le Monde.
Source: Estadão
The editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast and former director of several magazines such as Vanity Fair, Newsweek and The New Yorker, Tina Brown, doesn’t believe in the future of print magazines.
Speaking to journalists in Goa, Tina Brown said that she doesn’t read magazines anymore.
Source: Hindustan Times
The U.S. satirical daily newspaper The Onion will no longer be published in paper, from December 12.
The President of the medium, Mike McAvoy, considers that the printed newspaper “is no longer a profitable business” and decided to just keep the digital version of the publication.
Thus, The Onion reaches the end of an era that started in 1988.
Source: The Business Journal