How to magazine:
So Red Herring Magazine is closing. So is Shift. The Industry Standard and Talk Magazine bit the dust within the last few years. I guess Upside is still around but you can’t really tell from their bizarrely altered web site (Note: Upside is no longer around. They closed last year).
It doesn’t seem to be a great time to be in the magazine business unless you’re small, nichy, maybe non-profit and largely publishing in your spare time. Some of my favorite titles like Utne Reader, Bitch Magazine, To-Do List and Ready Made are all on track to survive longer than their glossier, now-dead counterparts through a combination of these methods. Some already have. It doesn’t seem like an easy life but it is possible.
Do you have favorite magazines that also fly below the popular radar?
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Upside Magazine died last year after slowly shrinking from phonebook-sized down to a glorified pamphlet.
I worked for a start-up magazine a few years ago, and while it wasn’t tech-oriented it did suffer the same fate as so many of these other publications. The number of magazines which survive past their first few issues is dismal, so the ones that stick around are definitely beating the odds.
Upside Magazine died last year after slowly shrinking from phonebook-sized down to a glorified pamphlet.
I worked for a start-up magazine a few years ago, and while it wasn’t tech-oriented it did suffer the same fate as so many of these other publications. The number of magazines which survive past their first few issues is dismal, so the ones that stick around are definitely beating the odds.
I like Chunklet and Punk Planet.
I like Chunklet and Punk Planet.
Bark Magazine (www.thebark.com) also looks pretty good.
Bark Magazine (www.thebark.com) also looks pretty good.