Posts from ‘Print Media’
Vanity Fair shoots a revealing photo of teen star Miley Cyrus, and the media loses its mind. Am I the only one who thinks this entire scandal and the ensuing media circus was completely coordinated by a PR machine? Whether it was the publication, photographer, Disney or Miley herself, everything about this story seems calculated. Was this reaction truly not anticipated?
Weekday newspaper circulation has continued to drop this year, as every major daily except USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, who both reported modest gains, reported declines, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation.
I have been delighted to see so many female-centric social media projects launching this year, from Yahoo’s Shine to Women on the Web. Toby Bloomberg highlights some of the best of these. Also: the Wall Street Journal is now available in print form in the United Kingdom, is this a sign print is still alive and kicking? And a journo ends up at a supporter-only Obama event; was his campaign truly surprised at the result?
A quarterly report released this week by the Publishers Information Bureau notes that “Of the 231 magazines that reported advertising figures in both 2007 and 2008, 153 reported a decrease in advertising pages–80 by 10 percent or more. And only 54 magazines reported ad page gains of more than 10 percent.”
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