America's re-election of a convicted criminal has sparked a crisis of conscience throughout the journalism community, from news organisations to magazines. It’s easy to despair when TikToks of people slapping each other with tortillas get more attention than any deeply researched journalism. But that’s why now, more than ever, magazine publishers need to step up their efforts to make sure the truth is told and heard.
The Grub Street Journal
Periodical Publishing
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The magazine for magazine people. ISSUE 4 OUT NOW: 'Finding the Future's Readers and Leaders'
About us
...is the creation of Peter Houston and Joanna Cummings. We make the magazine with our creative director, Nicola Craig. But we’re only part of the Grub Street gang. Our contributors, interviewees and readers are our most valuable co-conspirators. The Grub Street Journal is all about being brutally honest about the magazine industry — honest, but also optimistic. We’ve been asked if Grub Street is a love letter to magazines. The answer? Absolutely not. We love magazines, but we know there are issues. Maybe think of Grub Street as a family intervention or a call to action from the therapist's couch. All packed into a 68-odd-page print publication. Every issue we’ll bring our journalistic grit and a wry editorial eye to the biggest questions in magazine publishing, challenging the industry to change. And we’ll have some fun too.
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- Cheshire, Select
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- 2023
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Employees at The Grub Street Journal
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Peter Houston
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Joanna Cummings
Editorial Director, journalist, editor || Writing, Editing, Magazines || Co-founder of The Grub Street Journal || I help media companies engage their…
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Loui Cimino
Digital Content Coordinator of The Grub Street Journal | BA: J&CW Student @ Falmouth University
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Farman Ansari
Continental Chef at Hospitalise industry
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Magazines are not precious works of art. Magazines are products and fetishisation of the format blinds people to the cold hard-fact that we need money to keep making them.
Be passionate about profit
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Thankfully I see less stupid print vs digital exchanges than I did back in the day. Aside from a handful of digital zealots - the most hard-bitten pagesniffers know they need digital - media people have got their heads around the idea that IT’S NOT A F*CKING COMPETITION!!!
Magazine publishing's phony war
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For magazine makers, the connections between commercial reality and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow are many and varied. Here are some of the things I think magazine readers will pay for.
The Rainbow Connection
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Magazines are mystical. Making magazines is not. The days of pretending we can float above the grubby realities of the commercial world are long gone. It’s time to pull back the curtain and be honest about what it takes to make a magazine.
Honesty is the only policy
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If we can manage to ditch the tortured 'print's vinyl moment' analogies, there is one huge lesson magazine makers can take from analogue music’s $1.4 billion fight back. Learn from Tay Tay and TIME magazine.
The Tortured Analogy Department
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Editorial Director, journalist, editor || Writing, Editing, Magazines || Co-founder of The Grub Street Journal || I help media companies engage their audiences
Have you bought/read The Grub Street Journal? For my MA in Journalism Innovation and Leadership, I'm writing a report on building audience loyalty, and would love some input from readers. If you're happy to spare 10 mins to help me (and to help Grub St!) then I have a quick survey here: https://lnkd.in/eC5rHAAq #indiemags #supportmagazines #magazines
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If you're a publisher with a newsletter (or ten!), our morning workshops at the Publisher Newsletter Summit this Wednesday 12th June are just one of the really valuable opportunities you'll have across the day to take your own to the next level. In our first newsletter-themed workshop, Sarah Ebner and Lamberto Lambertini will be sharing the strategies, tactics and success stories from their extensive work in growing and monetising newsletters. How many times do you get an opportunity like this! Workshop booking open to ticket-holders, full agenda and tickets here: https://lnkd.in/eX3QYz68
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Editorial Director, journalist, editor || Writing, Editing, Magazines || Co-founder of The Grub Street Journal || I help media companies engage their audiences
Taking my life into my hands by messing with the Newsletter Awards branding - potentially incurring the wrath of Esther Kezia Thorpe - but I wanted this to look super cool BECAUSE IT IS. On Wednesday, I'll be chairing a panel with the creators of four award-winning newsletters to find out their strategies and 'secret sauce' for keeping those readers coming back. These experts? Lauren Indvik (Fashion Editor, Financial Times), Jem Collins (Founder, Journo Resources), Anders Swaffield (Digital Marketing Manager, Think) and Jillian MacMath (Audience Editor, Wales Online). I can't wait. If this, or anything newsletter-related, is of interest to you and your business, I URGE you to get a ticket to the Publisher Newsletter Summit before ticket sales close. Head here: https://lnkd.in/eUyHHAZz #publishernewsletters #newsletterconference #successfulnewsletters
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