The American Society of Magazine Editors has delivered a mild rap on the knuckles to The New Yorker for violating society guidelines when it published an issue sponsored by just one advertiser, Target
Stores. Those guidelines call for any magazine issue that is sponsored by a sole advertiser to include a note explaining that the advertiser did not influence the editorial content. The Aug. 22 issue
of The New Yorker, which included 18 pages of Target ads, did not include such a note.
Read the whole story at Adage.com, September 13, 2005 »