National Magazine Award Winners, Adobe Creative Suite CS6 Shipping, Staff Changes at The Atlantic, Digital Magazine Expectations, Digital Content Pricing
Welcome to TFP’s weekly roundup of interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world. This week we’re discussing the National Magazine Award winners, Adobe Creative Suite CS6, staff changes at The Atlantic, and more.
- The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) National Magazine Awards took place last week, with Time taking home the Magazine of the Year award. Find out which other magazines earned top honors in our National Magazine Award winners recap. Looking for the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media winners? We have a full recap of the winners from that event, too.
- Adobe announced that Creative Suite 6 is now available for purchase. Is your organization making the move to InDesign CS6? Need to know what features the new version offers? Our newest handbook, What’s New: InDesign CS6, will walk you through everything you need to know, so you’ll be up and running on CS6 fast.
- The Atlantic saw some major staff changes this week. Editor James Bennet is set become the magazine’s first ever editor in chief, with colleagues Bob Cohn and Scott Stossel being promoted to Atlantic Digital editor and Atlantic magazine editor, respectively.
- Recent research by the GfK MRI iPanel indicates that tablet owners aren’t 100% satisfied with the digital magazine experience yet. So, what’s missing? What do you expect from a digital magazine? Share your opinion in the poll following our blog post on readers’ expectations for tablet publications.
- Pricing digital content has been an ongoing struggle for many publishers. Early on, there weren’t any precedents, so the publishers who forged ahead into paywalls did so, for the most part, using trial and error. Luckily, we’re now reaching a point where we can review what’s been successful—and not so successful—for these early adopters. Some of the items on the Nieman Journalism Lab’s list of nine things you can learn from early experiments in pricing might surprise you.
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