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News and notes about the magazine industry
About this blog
CoverLines posts news and notes about the magazine industry.
It is produced by students enrolled in The Contemporary Magazine, a magazine publishing course in the San Francisco State University Journalism Department taught by Assistant Professor Rachele Kanigel.
It is produced by students enrolled in The Contemporary Magazine, a magazine publishing course in the San Francisco State University Journalism Department taught by Assistant Professor Rachele Kanigel.
Blog Archive
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2008
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September
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- The Significant of Paper
- Is There Really 101 New Tricks To A Great Sex That...
- Bitch: A Success Story
- A Paper Drop in the Global Bucket
- Third World Chic
- Random Appreciation: When Content Dictates Format
- Color Gracing the Covers
- The WTF of the Week
- The Future of Advertising
- Magazines' Attempt at Going "Green"
- The Magazine Killer? Not quite yet.
- Magazines For Grown-Ups
- What Happened to Cosmo?
- As Advertising Dollars Drop, It Is Time To Conside...
- "Special Edition"
- Interview: Chasen Marshall, Longboard Magazine
- Covering Culture: Fact vs. Personality
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September
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Contributors
Contessa Abono
David Agrell
Syed Ali
Charlotte Andersen
Jacklyn Arding
Angela Asche
Michelle Baguio
Heather Becker
Maria Bengtsson
Lexi Bondar
Tiffany Branam
Aimee Chanthadavong
Juliette Fitzer
Justin Gillett
Angela Hathaway
Jared Hoffmann
Lauren Jones
Meredith Jones
Maureen Keleher
Kelly Kottmeier
Erika Langdon
Valerie Lauriello
Bryan Lee
Natasha Lee
Seth Leeper
Eugenia Lopez
Nima Maghame
Saira Masood
David Mcclymonds
Zachary Meers
Brenna Murphy
Kate Newman
Tejal Parmar
Eileen Power
Rex Resa
Carrie Rubens
Dylan Silver
Annika Sinkey
Amanda Thompson-Morandi
Vincent Vizcaino
Austin Walsh
Roxanne Webber
Carina Woudenberg
3 comments:
wow, you're right, it always seems to be the same cover line. It says a lot about the magazine staff and the readers. To me, it says that there's something wrong with our sex saturated culture. And the reason why they deliver the same empty tips? Money? I wouldn't want to read a magazine that only cares about what sells.
I am an avid reader of Cosmo. I do think the headlines grab me into buying an issue. I think this piece is good, but I think it would give more if it had statistics and numbers. Like adding how many issues since 1886 had used those lines. Or how many of those headlines were written word for word, or if it was read differently but virtually meant the same thing.
In the same way that when I read my journals from five, maybe ten years ago I feel like I am still moaning and groaning about the same trivial things - Cosmo has managed to publish essentially the same magazine from month-to-month for a long, long time. Find a niche, run with it - run to the hills with it. If it isn't broken, don't fix it. If fun, sophisticated women all over the world do not want to be progressively surprised or challenged by their subscription than just run another sex tips/ losing weight headline like you did 40 years ago.
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