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Working on a Presidential Campaign Could Make You Fat, Married

Even as there are slow but steady steps forward in the way women's magazines talk to women, there are setbacks, like a recent offering from Glamour which we can add to the list of articles we wish journalists (female ones, at that) would stop writing for women.

By Adam Clark Estes

May 4, 2012

Remembering Grand Royal, the Beastie Boys' Brief, Brilliant Magazine

Adam Yauch will be remembered first and foremost for his genre-altering music career, but the artist better known as MCA did much more than that.

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By Adam Martin

Apr 30, 2012

Who'll Save The American Prospect?

The left-leaning magazine The American Prospect needs a benefactor, and quickly: It's short in its funding, according to The Huffington Post's Michael Calderone, and needs $500,000 just to stay open past the end of May.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 26, 2012

We Resist Further Cooperation on 'Coöperation'

One word we can't seem to get enough of these days—hint: not slacks!—is diaeresis, meaning those two dots that sit on top of a second vowel when two come right next to each other in separate syllables, as seen almost exclusively in The New Yorker.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 17, 2012

What's With Magazine Journalism and Women?

On April 3, the finalists of the National Magazine Awards were announced. They were very, very manly.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 3, 2012

What Does It Mean That the Majority of ASME Finalists Are Men?

The National Magazine Award finalists have been announced, and women are not represented at all in reporting, feature writing, profile writing, essays and criticism, columns and commentary, or feature photography.

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By Jen Doll

Mar 7, 2012

Let's Retire Demi Moore's Famous Pregnancy Pose Once and For All

Today in (very) public pregnancy news: Jessica Simpson appears on the cover of the April issue of Elle in Demi Moore's nude-and-seven-months-pregnant pose from the August 1991 -- 1991! -- issue of Vanity Fair.

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By Jen Doll

Mar 1, 2012

Which New Magazine for the Ultra Wealthy Is Right for You?

Despite what you might hear about the economy, publishing, and the trying lives of the wealthy, it's boom times out there in the arena of glossy print magazines for the rich!

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 30, 2011

The Evolution of iPad Magazine Designs

In just a few days the iPad will be 18 months old and Jann Wenner will release Rolling Stone's first app -- nothing too flashy. Given Wenner's reputation as the biggest naysayer of tablet editions, it would appear we're entering a new era of the iPad magazine.

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By Erik Hayden

Sep 6, 2011