http://www.minonline.com MinOnline en-us 2012 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:36:32 EST Through Thanksgiving, Spin (1986) and Gear founder (1998) Bob Guccione, Jr., is residing in Oxford, Miss., as the first editor-in-residence at the Magazine Innovation Center, the one-year-old creation “to encourage magazine innovation in an increasingly digital age” from University of Mississippi... http://www.minonline.com/topstory2.htm/15189.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:54:30 EDT Just as we will need a little Christmas six months from now, we need a little Fourth of July right now. The fragile economy, the wars in Afghanistan/Iraq amid the constant threat of terrorism and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have made conditions tough for so many. Plus, there are so many political... http://www.minonline.com/topstory2.htm/14650.html Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:16:02 EDT The digital economy has always been about numbers. From the time I started covering this field in 1995, all the major players in digital media coveted those wild-eyed market predictions about rapid and radical changes in American media consumption. So many billions of dollars were lost on markets that never... http://www.minonline.com/topstory2.htm/14586.html Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:20:20 EDT More a sigh of relief than a rendition of O Happy Day, because business has been so poor for so long. But like the economy as a whole, the ad-page hemorrhaging has stopped and the uptick (+7.34%/June and +4.67% second quarter) is modest. There are parallels to 1992, when the monthlies emerged from... http://www.minonline.com/topstory2.htm/14281.html Fri, 14 May 2010 16:46:38 EDT We reported March 15 on the New York celebration for Oprah Winfrey’s O namesake, which launched in May 2000 as a bimonthly with a 500,000 rate base and has since doubled in frequency and nearly quintupled (2.35 million) in circulation. Quite a success story for... http://www.minonline.com/topstory2.htm/14172.html Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:59:49 EDT Both Martha Stewart and Oprah Winfrey are billionaire owners of media companies (Stewart's Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is publicly held) who are switching from "free" tv to cable... http://www.minonline.com/topstory2.htm/13538.html Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:58:06 EST This, too, was caught in the ongoing dispute over freelancers being paid for print-to-electronic content, but any historian or fan of National Geographic has to be thrilled that every issue over the past 120 years is on DVD. When NG launched, there were just 38 states (California and Nevada were the only two west... http://www.minonline.com/topstory2.htm/12504.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:24:02 EDT As August comes to a close and summer’s official swan song begins, Time Inc. blazes its way to the top of min’s monthly Twitter follower chart once again. “We have a great corporate relationship,” says HEALTH.COM editor-in-chief Amy O’Connor. The main “passing in the... http://www.minonline.com/topstory2.htm/12012.html Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:43:06 EDT Bad news last week for those already tired of the Twitter craze, as protesters of Iran's election results grabbed headlines by tweeting their way through a state-enforced media blackout. Reports even surfaced that the U.S. State Department had requested that Twitter postpone a planned maintenance session so... http://www.minonline.com/topstory2.htm/11450.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT For years, their editorial offices were just a few midtown Manhattan blocks away, with Newsweek at 444 Madison and SciAm at 415. About a decade ago, Newsweek moved to 251 West 57th, and the vans will be busy over the Memorial Day weekend... http://www.minonline.com/topstory2.htm/10848.html Mon, 4 May 2009 0:00:00 EDT