• Boston Phoenix, Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:01 PM

If declines in circulation and ad linage have left the newspaper industry reeling, Mark Jurkowitz of the Boston Phoenix says that the situation for the other big print medium—magazines--is more complex. “Susceptible to some of the ills affecting newspapers and relatively immune to others, the magazine environment is tough, but not completely inhospitable,” he writes. “There’s bad news at Time, but good news for the Nation. It’s death to Cargo, but life at Men’s Vogue.” Jurkowitz talks to three different experts, only to “get three different takes on the health of magazine publishing,” Among them: Samir Husni (a.k.a. “Mr. Magazine”), the chair of the journalism department at the University of Mississippi, who says “when you hear all the bad news ... it’s a market adjustment. Almost every 10 years we go through the same thing.”

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