The Illustrated War News was launched soon after the start of the first World War and published regular weekly issues from 1914–18. Its 238 issues give us a vivid, illustrated, patriotic, and in places sensational account of the Great War. The periodical was a subsidiary publication from the Illustrated London News publishing company. And an advertisement in the opening page of the junior periodical proclaimed:
Were the editors and publishers of … Keep Reading
Scientific and technical periodicals were the first type of printed publication to be effectively digitised en masse. The roots of this tecnologisation of the periodical literature grew before the widesperead use of personal computers. MEDLARSand the Science Citation Index started in 1964 and although this early surge of database activity focussed on abstracts and indexing, by the time the web was invented 33 years ago, many scientific periodicals were well on the … Keep Reading
Digital magazine archives are much more future-oriented than they are backwards-looking. They are, of course both retrospective incorporating previously published issues in a searchable corpus, but they should also be prospective, since they need to be databased and accessible in such a way that the most recent issue and all previous issues are immediately and universally available to subscribers. So we should stop thinking about magazine archives as cabinets … Keep Reading
Substack may turn out to be the best new digital institution for journalism and journalists for this decade. It hasn’t gone sour like Twitter, it has reached a degree of commercial take-off which seems still to be eluding Medium, and it has attracted lots of great journalists and commentators. Arguably, it has been better for journalists than for journalism per se. I say this because most of the best writers on Substack have learned their stylistic, reportage, editing skills … Keep Reading
The Press Gazette this week has an excellent roundup on the ABC figures for the UK magazine industry in the second half of 2024. The headline is depressing “half of print titles see distribution drop 10% or more” and yet not surprising. Not surprising, since we have known for years, that print circulations and especially print subscriptions are generally on a downward trend. However, a 10% year on year fall, is concerning.
Sure, there are some good … Keep Reading
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