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...successful for their own good. A nation receptive to porn and wired for the Web has been a dangerous combination for print magazines. With pornography comprising 25% of all Internet searches, according to GOOD magazine's estimate, magazines have seen their readership dwindle. Many, battered by declining ad revenues and shrinking circulation, have closed up shop. Last month, after serving for 35 years as the rejoinder to Hef's iconic creation, Playgirl magazine went to press for the last time...
...print its famed headline “Harvard beats Yale 29-29.” Gary L. Singleterry ’70, Harvard’s punter, says that there was no element of disappointment in the Game’s final outcome, since no one had given the Crimson much of a chance. “For us to tie was a great moral victory. It was phenomenal,” he recalls.Peter D. Lennon ’70, the writer of the 1968 Game story in The Crimson, remembers frantically taking notes from the press box. Despite...
The decline of print media is driving the current tenants of Out of Town News literally out of town. The lease for Out of Town News, a newsstand known for selling a variety of U.S. and international newspapers and magazines, is set to expire on Nov. 30. Hudson News?...
...display’s artifacts were grouped thematically: “Literacy and the Indian College” recalled that the Indian College also housed the continent’s first printing press. The metal print-type pieces were later matched by researchers to the Eliot Bible, an Algonquian-language text and the first Bible printed on North American soil. The press remained as the building’s sole occupant after the college closed in 1771. In “Social Status: Divided We Eat,” fragments of forks and other food-related items evidenced a time...
...again—this time for its brand. The rankings, released earlier this month by Global Language Monitor, a company that uses quantitative methods to analyze the impact of language on society, are based on the number of times colleges and universities’ names were mentioned in both print and electronic global media over the past nine months. Indicating that prestige and media coverage seem to be correlated, six of the universities on the Global Language Monitor list also made the U.S. News top ten. Global Language Monitor President Paul Payack said yesterday that he expected the popularity...