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Flow Magazine: A Dutch Favorite Returns To The United States.  The Mr. Magazine™ interview with Irene Smit, Co-Founder and Creative Director.

Flow, the magazine that was born in an attic in the Netherlands in 2008, gained the world’s attention for its beauty, elegance, and giving its audience a time for themselves in a very slow but conscience and creative presentation.  What can easily be described as a magnet to paper lovers, returns to the shores of the United States and another 20 English speaking countries after suspending…

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The Other Magazine:  The Latest Launch To Take You "High" Up The Hudson Valley & New York City: The Mr. Magazine™ Interview With Peter Shafran, Founder and Publisher.

The legacy of cannabis and the legacy of magazines collide to introduce The Other magazine: A magazine devoted to cannabis, its dispensaries, and the customers who partake in enjoying the plant that for years has been the forbidden fruit.  With more states legalizing cannabis for recreational use, magazines devoted to the once forbidden plant are sprouting across the nation.  The Other is the…

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New Christian Makers: A Museum In A Magazine. The Mr. Magazine™ Interview With Garreth Blackwell, Creative Director & Editor-in-Chief

“Now that digital media is the dominant form out there, I think that books and magazines are showing the strengths they’ve always had, which is they’re a respite.” “Print is a place where you can get away from the noise that never stops in the digital world and have some sort of actual quiet experience within your own home.” To say I am a proud professor would be a major understatement.  What…

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There Is Nothing Basic About BASIC Magazine And The Woman Behind It: Viktorija Pashuta. The Mr. Magazine™ Interview.

Viktorija Pashuta, the founder, CEO,  and editor in chief of  BASIC magazine, left her home country, Latvia, with a little book that she started writing her ideas in it at age 11. Her dream was that one day she would create all the ideas in that book.  One of the ideas must have been BASIC magazine: an upscale magazine that is anything but basic. Also an award-winning director and film maker,…

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United We Stand, Divided We Sit… A Mr. Magazine™ Musings

Unlike today’s mass media, magazines in the year 1942, specifically July,  were united across content, audience, genre, age, etc. United they stood and proudly displayed the American flag on their covers to celebrate and educate their audience that the country was “United We Stand” as the country entered WWII.  Picking up any magazine in July of 1942,  people felt patriotic. Regardless of the…

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Ray Seebeck , The Twenty Something Young Man Behind The Unique Print Magazine “Magazine TM” The Mr. Magazine™ Interview

“There’s something different about holding something in your hand and looking at it to actually create that experience that we want to create.” Ray Seeback, Founder and Editor They say Gen Z is the digital generation, and print is their parents and grandparents’ medium.  However, one twenty something young man from Chicago begs to differ from that adage. He is the founder and editor of  the…

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They Don’t Make Magazine Like They Used to! Do They?  A Mr. Magazine™ Musing

Magazine making is an art.  It was, is, and always will be.  However, there is great art, mediocre art and just plain bad ugly art.  To each its own.  Continuing my journey into the magazines from years gone by, let alone a century, I happened to come across the first issue of Horizon magazine from September 1958.  It is a hard back that is encyclopedic in look and content. The editors wrote in…

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Model Cars: The Hobbyist Magazine Celebrates 25 Years.  The Mr. Magazine™ Interview With Gregg Hutchings, Editor & Publisher Extraordinaire.

“Print is forever… With magazines, its there. It’s permanence. It’s always there.” Gregg Hutchings Those who read my blog know that I don’t use adjectives such as extraordinaire, or incredible, or outstanding and such.  But after my conversation with Gregg Hutchings, editor and publisher of Model Cars magazines, I felt the urge and the need to use such adjectives.  The one-man band has been at…

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I Have Two Eyes…. A Mr. Magazine™ Musing

That is two Eye magazines.  One from the days before I was born, and the other when I was a 13-year-old teenager.  However the two Eyes have a lot in common and few good lessons to learn if you ever thought or think of going into the magazine business.  And by magazine, I mean the ink on paper publication that is published on some regular frequency. So without any further ado, here are the…

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An Upscale Magazine For The Masses. The Story Of The Launch Of hiii: “The Vanity Fair For Weed.”  The Mr. Magazine™ Interview With Rob Hill, Co-Founder And Editor In Chief, And Pam Patterson, Co-Founder And Creative Director.

“We love magazines. We’re finding out that a lot of other people who didn’t know they love magazines, love magazines. I’m feeling really buoyant and positive. You say, “Will this be a business? Yes, we are very, very confident. This is not a vanity project. We’re here to make money. The universe is conspiring such a thing.” Rob Hill An upscale magazine for the masses “who partake.” A “Vanity…

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Bob Guccione Jr. to Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni: “Publishers Killed Publishing.” The Mr. Magazine™ Interview with Spin Magazine Editor In Chief.

“One of the things I really was adamant about when we started the relaunch of Spin was just do it with quality. Even more quality than we had the first time around.” Bob Guccione, Jr., Editor in  Chief, Spin magazine Passionate and a die-hard believer in print and its role in society, Bob Guccione Jr., founder (in 1985) and editor in chief of the relaunched Spin magazine (2024) has a lot of good…

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Colin Kearns, Editor In Chief,  Field & Stream To Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni:  “The Magazine Is The Next Best Thing To Being Outside…” The Mr. Magazine™ Interview

“Best Magazine Relaunch Ever, Bar None…”  Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni Field & Stream is back in print. Let me start by telling you that, editor in chief Colin Kearns and his team, with this relaunch issue, not only captured the essence of the past of Field & Stream, but also presented it in such a modern way for the present with a solid foundation for the future. I’ve been following the magazine…

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Terry Duffy, Group Publisher, Palm Beach Media Group to Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni: We Have Stayed True To Our Editorial Messaging, And Editorial Drives The Train At Palm Beach Media.

“Keeping the readers engaged issue after issue has really been the key to our success.” Terry Duffy  Terry Duffy is the proud group publisher of the Palm Beach Media Group based in South Florida.  In less than five years the group has expanded its reach in South Florida from 16 titles to 30, and is still growing. Terry believes that he is fortunate to live and work in a part of the country that…

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Kat Craddock Loved SAVEUR Magazine So Much She Bought The Company.  The Mr. Magazine™ Interview With The CEO & EIC Who Relaunched The Print Edition of SAVEUR.

Kat Craddock is to SAVEUR magazine what Victor Kiam was to Remington Shavers in the late 1970s.  The famous salesman who said, “ I liked the razor so much I bought the company.”  And so did Kat Craddock who liked SAVEUR magazine so much, she bought the company. Kat Craddock by Grace Ann Leadbeater. A restauranteur who fell in love with the magazine at a very young age and was sad to see it halt…

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Joe Berger, Magazine Marketing Consultant, On Magazine Distribution, Launching Magazines, And The Major Changes He Witnessed Over More Than 40 Years In The Business.  The Mr. Magazine™ Interview.

Joe Berger has been at it since the early 1980s.  He understands and knows the single copy and subscription magazine distribution channels inside out.  He is too humble to call himself president or founder of Joe Berger Consulting and prefers to be referred to as a “Magazine Marketing Consultant.”  In that capacity, he offers service and advice to magazine publishers both big and small.  He is…

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A Pioneer In The Field Of Single Copy Distribution, Linda Ruth, President, PSCS Inc., Tells Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni: “We’ve Got To Be Doing What’s Best For Every Member In This Business.”

A pioneer in the field of single copy distribution, Linda Ruth, president of PSCS Inc., has been one of a very few women working in the newsstands’ distribution channel of the magazine business.  She started in the 1980s when the single copy industry was comprised of at least eight major national distributors and almost 400 wholesalers and too many to count retailers.  Things have changed, and…

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Using Print To Establish A Multi-Platform Lifestyle Media Brand  With NEW YOU At Its Center.  The Mr. Magazine™ Interview With Vanessa Walker, President, NEW YOU Media.

“The name NEW YOU will stand for health and wellness, will stand for beauty, will stand for a name that you could trust and you can inspire. You’re aspiring to be a NEW YOU.” Vanessa Walker Vanessa Walker may not be a household media name.  However, after celebrating her ninth NEW YOU Awards last week, Ms. Walker has turned to be a truly media power person to contend with.  She did not come from…