It’s a strange time to be making a magazine. Last week I talked to Rob Orchard, the editorial director of Delayed Gratification — a mag I really admire and, frankly, aspire to — for a piece for The Drum, about how print titles across the industry are coping and adapting…

There’s an axiom — or a cliche, if you like — in magazine publishing that a new title, especially an indie one, is only really considered to have arrived when it gets to its third issue. The bloom comes off, the nerves kick in, and despite the fatigue you still…

Dive: Issue 2 has finally gone to print and pre-orders are now available. I’m delighted — properly chuffed, actually — that the second issue of Dive has made it to print. …

With the second issue of Dive almost ready to print, I thought I’d talk a little about the production and design changes I’m making to the title. While producing the second issue of a new magazine is notoriously harder than the first (because of the pressure to maintain quality, consistency…

So, some of you might know that I’ve been working away on a second issue of Dive. I haven’t talked much about it in the months since I announced the city I’d be covering, but since I’m close to the home stretch of actually producing it, I thought now was…

I can’t nominate ten albums from the last year, but I can recommend one truly excellent record. We’re nearing the end of the season of end-of-year-lists — a staple of arts journalism in which critics and writers compete for the right to shape their readers’ memories of the year in…

A look back at the first issue of Dive, and what’s next for the project. It’s been over a month since Dive officially launched, and since I got the last lot of outstanding deliveries in the post today, I thought this might be a good opportunity to stand back and…

Subscription services have been beating magazine publishers at their own game — so let’s learn from them. Earlier today, I graduated from Edinburgh Napier’s Magazine Publishing postgraduate course. …