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1. June 5, 2012 03:50 PM

   GOOD Mag to be ‘a Reddit for social good’ (updated)

   Ex-staffers at work on a new publication

   By Alysia Santo

   GOOD magazine fired six of its nine-person editorial staff on Friday—and two others accepted buyouts—as part of a move from being a journalism-focused outlet to a community engagement platform. “They said they wanted to be a Reddit for social good,” says Megan Greenwell, the former managing editor at GOOD. Staff members from GOOD magazine told CJR they had suspicions that...

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2. October 24, 2012 06:50 AM

   Newsweek and the (relative) health of print mags

   Not all is dark for the industry

   By Ryan Chittum

   News that Newsweek is exiting print was hardly surprising coming two years after the Washington Post Company unloaded it for a dollar. But these numbers struck me while reading this Financial Times story on the news: Newsweek has suffered more than some rivals. Its 1.5m circulation is less than half what it was five years ago, and Publishers Information Bureau...

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3. July 20, 2012 02:50 PM

   Could the iPad save magazines?

   It's looking ever more likely

   By Molly Mirhashem

   Though it may have gathered the most attention recently, Huffington, The Huffington Post’s new iPad-only magazine, isn’t the only publication making a serious tablet push these days. Publications continue to request entry to the Apple Newsstand app, that comes with all iPads, and to digital newsstand databases like Zinio, which goes by the tagline, “The World’s Largest Newsstand.” The recently...

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