[HN Gopher] How to keep a great magazine going
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How to keep a great magazine going
Author : conanxin
Score : 60 points
Date : 2023-02-12 07:11 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.texasmonthly.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.texasmonthly.com)
| MisterBastahrd wrote:
| The thing about Texas Monthly is that they have become a trusted
| brand over the years because they are so high quality and they've
| continued to innovate, which has buttressed against things like
| reducing page count or print quality. They've got the right mix
| of human interest, branding, and political stories. Politically,
| they are definitely to Texas' left of center, but not in an "in
| your face" sort of way. And their web team is top notch. When I
| was tasked with redesigning a website a decade ago, my South
| Carolina based internet publisher chose Texas Monthly's site as
| one of our sources of inspiration.
| ubermonkey wrote:
| Wow. I find TM insufferably conservative, and entirely focused
| on the wrong things most of the time (e.g., Dallas society).
|
| They're still publishing, which is something, but I quit
| reading them regularly a long, long time ago for want of
| anything interesting between the covers. OTOH, if I want to see
| full-page ads for $500 belt buckles, I know where to look.
| korroziya wrote:
| >Wow. I find TM insufferably conservative
|
| You're probably insufferably liberal to most people.
| shiftpgdn wrote:
| Texas Monthly is in no way a conservative magazine. Are we
| reading the same thing?
| MisterBastahrd wrote:
| I said left of Texas' center.
|
| For example, the biggest ticket article today is titled "The
| Campaign to Sabotage Texas's Public Schools." That's not a
| conservative article by any means.
| miguelazo wrote:
| Left of liberal here and definitely disagree with this
| statement. While I don't read it that frequently, or get the
| print edition, I find many of their articles are highly
| informative and worth sharing. Magazines often have to print
| ads for ridiculous stuff, that's just how they keep the
| lights on. Judge them by the content of their articles.
| doodlebugging wrote:
| This article reminds me of all those trips to the barber shop,
| the dentist's office, or the doctor's office where in spite of
| the fact that you had an appointment, you knew you were gonna
| have to wait. One thing you could count on was that those places
| would have a great election of magazines. Current or old issues
| didn't matter since you just needed a way to pass the time. The
| long form journalism in Texas Monthly was captivating to the
| point where when the duckter finally quacked that it was my turn,
| I would find myself cursing under my breath wishing for another
| 10 minutes so I could finish that article. I usually came back
| out of the appointment and finished reading so I could know how
| the story ended. You never knew whether you would see that issue
| again back then since those offices rotated things regularly.
|
| We had a subscription back in the days when magazines in the mail
| was a big thing. You could always look forward to things like the
| Bum Steer awards where writers took shots at all the stupidity of
| politicians, celebrities, etc. Their coverage of Texas events,
| good, bad, or notorious was excellent and still is to this day.
| The writer isn't joking about all the ads in the print version.
| It was almost like thumbing through a catalog sometimes to find
| hidden jewels in story form.
|
| I still read the online version because there really isn't
| anything quite like it for tales from Texas. Food, events,
| history, government, etc. They cover it all in a manner that
| appears to just lay it all out and leave it to the reader to
| decide how to take it.
|
| Thanks for this article.
| korroziya wrote:
| [flagged]
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