Comments on: The broadsheet as collector’s item. Why not?

By: キャバクラ求人

キャバクラ求人 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:45:00 +0000

よとしくｗｗ

By: キャバクラ高収入求人

キャバクラ高収入求人 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:44:20 +0000

By: Timothy Lesle

Timothy Lesle — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:39:42 +0000

This looks beautiful. But a stable of freelancers contributing art, photography, and text to a publication that is surely taking weeks or months to report, edit, design, and assemble, culminating in an issue that will be a “one-shot deal” with no regular daily publication to follow (says McSweeney’s) –all this sounds like a magazine to me, regardless of the “21st-century newspaper prototype” label or the size and composition of the paper. Maybe newspaper staffers will learn something from this, or find inspiration in it. But will it include a feature on how to do this same thing on a daily basis?

The commemorative product point is a good one, but the Obama papers became artifacts because of the magnitude of the event, not necessarily the holistic presentation or coverage in the paper (from the front-page reprint perspective, it also seems to boil down to the power of a good headline: think “Men Walk on Moon”). In this instance, the event is the McSweeney’s publication itself, consciously taking on the future of news(papers). The headlining Bay Bridge story is promising; I’ll be interested to see what new material they dig up.

In any case, I look forward to buying one. And in that, I suppose any print publication can find a bit of inspiration and hope.

By: Magtastic Blogsplosion | What newspapers did next (1)

Magtastic Blogsplosion | What newspapers did next (1) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:17:42 +0000

[...] aforementioned new issue of McSweeney’s is beginning to cause a stir in the American newspaper world, as the advance spreads seem to be getting people interested anew [...]

By: Tim Holmes

Tim Holmes — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:13:09 +0000

The ultimate capitulation of newspapers to the superior form of magazines.