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"For Quality Journalism, Embrace the Print Version" Jokes aside, my experience is that if you are looking for an increasingly clickbait-y, informal and low-end
by glangdale 9y ago
"For Quality Journalism, Embrace the Print Version"
Jokes aside, my experience is that if you are looking for an increasingly clickbait-y, informal and low-end version of Hallowed Publication X, with lots of self-help and thinly-disguised celebrity gossip, then the ordering is "Print Version of X" << "Web Version of X" << "Mobile Version of X".
Usually all the content is there in all 3 versions, but it seems to make a huge difference in terms of what's buried and what leads.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoNew Scientist did something like this when it started to emphasise the mobile version: more pop psych, less hard science. Then I stopped reading it. It's interesting to find archive copies of New Scientist and Sci Am from the 70s and 80s to see just how far the tone and content have drifted. Maybe I'm unduly pessimistic, but I'm finding it hard to imagine something like Martin Gardner's math and puzzle columns appearing regularly in a mainstream online journal today.
- ktRolster 9y agoIf your website doesn't have large pictures of people having a good time, you're behind the times, and you won't have a general readership.
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- Baeocystin 9y agoScience News (https://www.sciencenews.org/ https://www.sciencenews.org/) is still around and kicking. It's the last magazine I still subscribe to.
- AlexCoventry 9y agoNew Scientist has been uncritical gee-whiz garbage since at least the 90s. It might have been before that, but I lacked the analytical skills to notice.
- tome 9y agoYes, even at school aged 14 I was told that if I wanted to really learn about science I should read Scientific American in preference to New Scientist.
- fuckemem 9y ago<< "Outbrain content"
- cylinder 9y agoNyt just ran a piece about getting ketchup out of the bottle on page A2 of the print edition: How to Get Ketchup From a Bottle Without the Wait, Watery Goo and Splatter https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/us/ketchup-bottle-pour.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/us/ketchup-bottle-pour.ht...