Dazed Audit
Analyst Tom Strudwick reports that this title must improve the relationship between online and print components. Publisher: Waddell Ltd Category: Lifestyle Style & [more...]
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Pick Me Up Audit
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Home and Away
Essays in Magazine Media, No 5, December 2012 Richard Sharpe The 1930s were a particularly turbulent decade. The year before it started the world economy entered one of its [more...]
Hello! to Privatisation
Essays in Magazine Media, No 4, December 2012 Andrew Calcutt Hello! was launched in Britain in 1988. Then, as now, it was mainly made up of colour photos of young and [more...]
Charles Dickens: novelist, journalist and mediator
Essays in Magazine Media, No 3, December 2012 Andrew Calcutt Compared to Joseph Addison, writer/editor/publisher of The Spectator, Charles Dickens (1812-70) was twice the [more...]
The Spectator: A study of comparison
Essays in Magazine Media, No 1, November 2012 Andrew Calcutt Take any picture of Kate Moss. Note the physical attributes which contribute to her instantly recognisable [more...]
The Case Against ‘Community’
Why the C-word won’t work for commercial magazine publishers Andrew Calcutt, 8 January 2010 ‘Let’s make it a community’. To publishers wondering what to do with [more...]
10 predictions for UK magazines in 2010
10-4-2010 Richard Sharpe’s 10 predictions for UK magazines in 2010 1 There will be plenty of launches despite the recession. These will come from new publishers who [more...]
Men’s Health in Context
Mark Beachill, 14 December 2009 This essay looks at the en-gendered nature of magazines. It assesses changes in the landscape of magazine publishing, despite many formal [more...]
Changing the Subject: from the Gentleman’s Magazine to GQ and Barack Obama
Andrew Calcutt, November 2009 Summary: Magazines are mercantile: they originated as accessories to market expansion before turning more towards domestic interiors [more...]
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