A recent article in Good magazine about competitive commuting has sparked lively conversation on cycling blogs and across the Web.
The Week magazine is making a new guarantee to advertisers: that its readers will remember an ad in its pages more than ads in most competitive magazines.
EVEN the rock press is no longer a bastion for adventurous work by underdog artists: magazines are too competitive, too anxious to draw in demographic eyeballs by touting the same hit artists heard on the radio and seen on MTV.
With The Week's guarantee, the magazine is saying that not only will it ensure that someone sees an ad, but no matter how the ad looks or reads, and no matter the editorial focus of The Week and competitive magazines for a given issue, it will perform at the top.
"Tina wanted the magazine to be competitive on the newsstand," Mr. Lorenz said.
She seems to blithely walk into stoushes much as one imagines she would an early-90s gender studies tutorial: a doll-like beauty with an air of privilege (not quite of the masses, her mother is a gallerist and father an investor with a reported $135m personal fortune) and a natural glossiness that no doubt aided her rise in the competitive magazine world.
I decided to check in with one of my favorite fashion editors and friends, Anne Slowey, the Fashion News Director of ELLE magazine, and former competitive athlete and swimmer, now rower, to get her take on the current fashion and designers emerging onto the fitness scene.
[C2.] Life Magazine to Cease Publication Time Inc. said it would cease regular publication of Life magazine, the illustrated chronicle of America for more than six decades, with the May issue because the market for magazines has become too competitive for a general interest publication.
Staff jobs are competitive at magazines and websites.
After street-selling for eight months, a system which sees vendors buy copies for £1 each and sell them for £2, keeping the difference, he says: The magazine has to be competitive and if people stopped buying it we'd all be out of work.
