This existential question has been rattling around editorial offices around the world for a while now, but Christopher Phin (of MacFormat and Tap!) has taken the excellent step of coalescing the debate into a hashtag: #whatisamagazine Chris has already given ...Read More
The third annual Digital Magazine Awards had their winner's showcase at Proud Galleries yesterday, and it was a great event. I was asked to do the keynote speech - always slightly nerve-wracking having to present to an audience that knows ...Read More
I was on holiday last week, so it's taken me a while to get hold of the first copy of Time Out in its new free incarnation. Full disclosure: I worked on developing the initial dummy for the free earlier ...Read More
Congrats to everyone at Frieze on their new, quarterly iPad incarnation. I gave a little technical help at the latter stages of the launch (fun and games with getting into Apple's Newsstand), and I'm very glad to see the finished ...Read More
Two talks in recent weeks, to engaged audiences asking nicely tricky questions. First up I was at the Social Media Influence 2012 Conference, on a panel with Rob Crumbie of Recyclebank and Frances Brindle, Director of Strategic Marketing and Communications ...Read More
I'm part of a trio of speakers at a Guardian Masterclasses event called 'Reinventing Magazines'. It'll be an interactive Q&A for anybody interested in new models and innovation in magazines – covering both print and digital. Also speaking will Danny ...Read More
The magazine circulation figures were out yesterday. Fairly gloomy for lots of publishers, but one new addition this time is the audited figures for tablet editions. Journalism.co.uk has a round-up of figures for the second half of 2011 here. It's the first ...Read More
As Clever Boxer, we're running a series of events at the V&A around different aspects of the creative industries, all spinning off their excellent Power of Making exhibition. The first event was entitled 'Dead Wood: The Future of Magazines', and as ...Read More
I've written a piece for the latest issue of Lost in London magazine on green roofs and the entertaining and passionate campaigner Dusty Gedge. Lost in London is a beautifully designed and print quarterly print mag, and I was grateful for ...Read More
On the weekend of 13-14th August, as part of the Power and Production weekend at the Southbank Centre, a group of writers, editors, designers, photographers and illustrators got together to produce an entire magazine in 48 hours. I went along ...Read More