Publishing in the Digital Age

News in the Newsfeed

The younger generation spends a significant part of their day on their smartphones and this affects how they live their…

Will News Ever Be True?

We could assume that the news would be the safest place to gain any and all truthful information. However, with “fake…

News apps: the key to a reader-funded business model?

On November 8th took place the PPA Independent Publishers Conference in London. There, Juan Señor, of Innovation Media Consulting, said that ‘the decision to give our content away for free was the single biggest mistake publishers have…

Has the power of fake news and open journalism destroyed our trust in online political campaigns?

Before the digital age we, the consumers, would go to a newspaper stand and pick up a copy of The Daily Mail or The Economist if we wanted to find out what was…

Is Open Access the Revolution we need or a disaster waiting to happen?

There might be a revolution happening within Scholarly Publishing. Universities seem to be more than ever tired of giving the content for journals and then having to pay for them (double-dipping). The…

Plus Sized Models are Bad for Women and the Magazine Industry

How can fashion magazines stay profitable in the digital age?

Are Instagram Influencers Hypothetically Eating Print Magazines Alive?

A shift in women’s magazines?

In November 2019, Women’s Health released a podcast with Procter & Gamble, ‘Project Body Love’, a ’30 day series designed to help women with their body confidence’ (Thorpe, 2019). This podcast follows the magazine’s ‘In shape, my shape’ campain from 2018, which aimed to change…