Magazeum
Podcasts about magazines and the people who made (and make) them.
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Copy of Best of PID: Joanna Coles (Editor: Daily Beast, Cosmo, Marie Claire, more)
<p>THE LAST CELEBRITY MAGAZINE EDITOR</p> <p>—</p> <p>Maggie Bullock: It’s 2016. Rachel and I are sitting at our desks on the 24th floor of the Hearst Tower working at Elle magazine when the glass double doors blow open—or at least that’s how I remember it—and a vision of white-blonde hair, metallic pants, and checkerboard platforms, breezes into the office speaking in a commanding British accent to two or three minions in her wake.</p> <p>There are no cameras in sight, but it’s as if we’re watching a grand entrance and a reality TV sho...
Steve Watson (Founder: Stack)
<p>THE MAGAZINE OF THE MONTH CLUB</p> <p>—</p> <p>One of the things I’ve learned while hosting this podcast is that there are a lot of magazines out there. More than I imagined. Meaning there was never a “death of the magazine,” simply a realignment of dollars and attention. If anything, there are more magazines being published than ever. </p> <p>But, and it’s a big but, they are harder and harder to find. There are fewer magazine stores. There are almost no newsstands, at least in North America. And bookstores, well, ok, go to your local books...
Best of PID: Adam Moss (Editor: New York, The New York Times Magazine, more)
<p>Highbrow, Brilliant: The Adam Moss Approval Matrix</p> <p>—</p> <p>Adam Moss is probably painting today. He’s not ready to share it. He may never be ready to share it. You see, this ASME Hall of Famer unabashedly labels himself as “tenth rate” with the brush. And he’s okay with that.</p> <p>As Moss explains, it’s not about the painting. After decades of creating some of the world’s great magazines, he is throttling down. He’s working with canvas, paint, and brush — and reveling in the thrill of making something, finally, for an audience of one.<...
Nathan Thornburgh (Cofounder: Roads & Kingdoms)
<p>NO RESERVATIONS</p> <p>—</p> <p>Welcome to a new season of The Full Bleed. This year, we’re going to be talking to makers and creators, of course, but also more about the business of magazines. Because, let’s face it, making a magazine is not easy. It never has been. But we’re seeing more and more magazines—in print—out in the world and there’s a reason for that. At a time where the digital world is a messy place, and that’s being polite, magazines are perfectly positioned as a part of an “analog” wave that is going t...
Christian Nolle (Founder & Editor: Direction of Travel)
<p>THE VIEW FROM THE WINDOW SEAT</p><p>—</p><p>Despite its name, Direction of Travel is not a travel magazine. Sure, it’s a celebration of a certain kind of travel, but this is not a publication that takes you somewhere. Unless you think of Air World as a destination. Which I do.</p><p>Founder Christian Nolle is an AvGeek. Which is not an insult. More an acknowledgement of a state of mind. Christian loves all things aviation. And mostly he loves how it looks and feels and, perhaps more importantly, how it looked and felt.</p><p>Di...
Françoise Mouly (Art Editor: The New Yorker, more)
<p>WHEN EUSTACE MET FRANÇOISE</p><p>—</p><p> I first met Françoise Mouly at The New Yorker’s old Times Square offices. This was way back when artists used to deliver illustrations in person. I had stopped by to turn in a spot drawing and was introduced to Françoise, their newly-minted cover art editor.</p><p>I should have been intimidated, but I was fresh off the boat from Canada and deeply ensconced in my own bubble—hockey, baseball, Leonard Cohen—and so not yet aware of her groundbreaking work at Raw magazine.</p><p>Much time has pass...
Antonella Dellepiane Pescetto (Founder: Orlando)
<p>A 5-STAR MAGAZINE (DO NOT DISTURB)</p><p>—</p><p>Orlando is the magazine as hotel, quite literally—we’ll explain what that means in a bit—a magazine that one can inhabit and live in, a love letter to culture in the most expansive use of the word. It’s also very Italian. Maybe because it comes from Italy. More specifically, from the mind of Antonella Dellepiane Pescetto, who is Italian. But more importantly, she is someone with exquisite taste.</p><p>And, yes, the magazine is set up as a hotel. Just go to the table of contents a...
Kenzie Yoshimua (Editor-in-Chief: Fare)
<p>ONE CITY AT A TIME</p><p>—</p><p>There are two kinds of travelers. The first group are those that need to see as many attractions as they can. The second are those that would rather wander around, get a feel for the place they’re visiting, and live as much like a local as possible. Neither is better. There’s no judgement here. But the people who are behind the bi-annual Fare Magazine are definitely of the latter group.</p><p>Founded almost ten years ago, each issue of Fare explores a single city, using food as an ent...
Nikki Ogunnaike (Editor: Marie Claire, more)
<p>A MODERN MAGAZINE EDITOR IN A POST-MAGAZINE WORLD</p><p>—</p><p>In the media storm that is 2025, the person you want captaining your ship is smart, decisive, and cool, calm, and collected—in other words, she’s Nikki Ogunnaike.</p><p>The editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, whom we got to know when we worked together at Elle, is the very model of a modern magazine editor, in that—unlike the lifers of old—she hopscotched through a ton of jobs, accruing skills as a writer, a fashion editor, a digital editor and a print editor, and, oh yeah, a social-m...
Kade Krichko (Founder: Ori)
<p>THE PURPOSE OF TRAVEL</p><p>—</p><p>The world is adrift in travel magazines that tell you to go here and stay there, to order certain foods at “of-the-moment” restaurants. And when you go to these places you find yourself surrounded by other travelers like you, and the only locals you interact with are, maybe, the waiter, or your Airbnb host, or the tour guide taking you on a generic definitely-not-what-the-locals-do tour of the trendiest neighborhood in town. </p><p>Or you might not even meet a local. Or ever stop looking at the screen on your phone.</p><p>You...
