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The Gilded Age of Magazines

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The labor of magazine-making has never been less glamorous, less stable, or less profitable. Prestige, as the union organizers at Condé Nast have said, doesn’t pay the bills. With the churn of digital publishing pushing magazines into the financial and cultural doldrums, the luster of the legacy media job has only gotten duller. Yet there is still a magic in print magazines that does not seem to exist in newspapers or book publishing. Be it a

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Elon Musk is named Time Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year

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Elon Musk has been named Time magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year. 

The world’s richest man was bestowed the honor after a year of selling off his possessions and moving to Texas, launching rockets into space, inventing new driverless cars, sharing his Asperger’s diagnosis while hosting Saturday Night Live and influencing the stock market with this tweets.

Musk spoke with Time Magazine and discussed his ‘semi-separated’ status with Grimes, slammed vaccine mandates as an ‘erosion of freedom’ and shared his

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Casa Magazines hat alles gesehen

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Eines Nachmittags im Juli 2017 machte Malcolm Gladwell Halt bei Casa Magazines im West Village, um ein Exemplar der New York Review of Books zu kaufen. Er begann mit dem Besitzer des Ladens, Mohammed Ahmed, zu plaudern, was zu einem längeren Gespräch über Print führte.

Mr. Ahmed kaufte den Laden 1994. In den frühen Morgenstunden verkaufte er routinemäßig jeden Sonntag 300 Exemplare der New York Times. Diese Tage waren lange vorbei. An einem guten Wochenende verkaufte er 200 Exemplare.

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