Edmond Y. Azadian
When influential publications such as the Christian Science Monitor
or Newsweek decided to drop their print versions and survive in an
online format only, many people began writing the obituary of print
media. But when the New York Times released the global issue of its
200-plus-page weekly magazine (by “reimagining a magazine”) one is
reminded of Mark Twain’s famous quote, “the reports about my death have
been greatly exaggerated.”
In the February 22, 2015 issue of the “reimagined magazine,” we read:
“This magazine is 119 years old; nearly four million people read it in
print every weekend. It did not need to be dismantled, sawed into pieces
or drilled full of holes. Instead, we have set out to honor the shape
of the magazine as it has been, while creating something that will, we
hope, strike you as a version you have not read before … ideas about the
relationship between print and digital and animating it all, a new
spirit of inquiry that is subversive and sincere.”
