I’ve already gotten three “special” Derby issues of local magazines, and there’s sure to be more. There is, no doubt, some economic advantage to producing a special Derby issue, as advertisers do seem to love the idea of a print ad splashed in a legitimate publication devoted to the big event.

But as for the editorial […]

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There’s a new magazine in town - High School Sports The Magazine. The publisher is Maria Decamillis Raque, who has spent a hectic few months readying the first issue for publication. The magazine is a franchise based in Tulsa, and is published in 13 other U.S. markets.
The decision to put the Dupont Manual basketball […]

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Tasty Cover — The February issue of Louisville magazine just arrived with a tasty dish from Seviche on the cover. The mag unleashed five food writers (including our own Steve Coomes) on the town to sample five different cuisines. Yummy! Inside, the best story is Josh Moss’s piece about Louisville’s Late Late Night Show, which […]

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Joe Ward’s piece in Louisville magazine purports to be a feature on the C-J’s fashion and beauty editor, Christine Fellingham. Sure, she’s got some compelling qualities that make her a logical choice for the magazine’s full-color, full-out feature treatment.
But the subplot Ward examines is Fellingham’s unique role at the paper — and whether she belongs […]

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Several months back, I started subscribing to Sports Illustrated for one reason — I didn’t want to miss any of Rick Reilly’s columns on the back page of the magazine. As a writer, I’m a believer that you’ve got to be a writing fan, that you’ve got to find writers that you like, and keep […]

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Nothing like a chilly Friday in November in the world of sports. And an excellent distraction for the end of the work week.
Billy Reed has a series of Top 5 lists on college football that could get some arguments going.  Billy’s been to a lot of press boxes in his day, so I’m not going […]

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Business and Books: Backers of the Louisville library referendum might consider touting the unscientific poll over at Business First, which is getting plenty of traffic. The poll question: Do you favor or oppose the tax measure? The “Yes” answer currently holds a Beshear-sized lead at 59-33. What’s more, there are seven pages worth […]

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What about the Bambi Bar? Let’s see, according to the city’ s own branding campaign, you can’t advance your career or afford a home in Boston, and Atlanta has too much traffic. Still, those cities were right up there with us on a list of Best Places to Live in New York’s Resident Magazine. 11 […]

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The October issue of Louisville Magazine just arrived. The cover? A model getting a spa treatment. Inside — 12 pages of ads and editorial on local salons and spas. The problem — figuring out where the ads end and the editorial starts.
This isn’t one of those rants about editorial integrity. The day for that passed […]

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Jerry Abramson is among 36 American mayors featured in the September Esquire, which just arrived over the weekend. My favorite mag crashed the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Beverly Hills, taking pictures of city leaders and giving each one a brief comment. A handful got to model new suits — the feature was in […]

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News that LEO, the city’s alternative weekly, is pulling the plug on its blogging experiment is disheartening. In a final post dated July 18, Stephen George blamed “other priorities” for the demise of the entertaining blog, in which George almost singlehandedly broke stories and provided some entertaining prose. Add in the efforts of editor Cary […]

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LEO’s Cary Stemle explains the latest blow to morale at the Courier-Journal: the layoffs of a dozen advertising staffers.
Given the environment at newspapers these days, it’s almost a relief when a layoff involves less than two percent of the total staff. And none of those cut were in the editorial department.  Gannett’s Arizona Republic laid […]

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More than any other business, suprisingly, producers of media seem to take criticism harder than others. Enterprises of journalism may dish it out, but rarely take it, especially on their own pages. LEO publisher Pam Brooks opted not to allow the following column to be published, saying it wasn’t in the paper’s best interests.
It concerns […]

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The short-lived saga of Warning Magazine in Louisville may be over. Local editor Jacob Zimmer says he was notified Sunday that the publisher of magazines distributed in a dozen or so college markets around the U.S. plans to package local content from those markets into a single 192-page edition. Zimmer says he’s no longer with […]

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I got an advance copy of the new Boom magazine, which will get its official launch later today with a big party at the Kentucky Center for the Arts. Guests will include Congressman John Yarmuth and Fourth District Metro Councilman David Tandy.
The slick, four-color magazine is a rare effort by the parent of LEO Weekly […]

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