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Why New York Magazine sees responsive design as the future

Instead of building interface solutions for each platform and device (digital, mobile) many publishers turn to responsive design. Unfortunately this approach also has some hurdles and pitfalls. Josh Sternberg talked to Michael Silberman, the general manager of digital for New York Magazine.

Digiday :: New York Magazine launched a fashion site this week called The Cut. What’s interesting is that the publication is using the site as a pilot of sorts to join the now-trendy responsive design movement.

A report by Josh Sternberg, www.digiday.com

New Yorker iPhone app lands on the iPhone

AllThingsD :: Here’s another way to crack the “big stack of old New Yorkers you don’t have time to get to” problem: You can now read the magazine on your iPhone, via a new app.

A report by Peter Kafka, allthingsd.com

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Jayson Blair: Jonah Lehrer’s story reminds me of my own

Salon :: Jonah Lehrer resigned his position at the New Yorker today after admitting that he fabricated the Bob Dylan quotes he used in his new best-seller, “Imagine.” A young writer flaming out after reaching the top of the profession — it was impossible not to think about Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who resigned amid scandal in 2003, when plagiarism and fabrication were discovered in his stories. Blair is now a certified life coach at Goose Creek Coaching and Consulting; we called him Monday afternoon to get his sense on journalism’s latest cautionary tale.

An interview by David Daley, www.salon.com

New York Magazine publishes its first ebook, with Byliner

Niemanlab :: New York magazine certainly has the skills to make an ebook. If editors didn’t want to handle production in house, they could hire one of any numerous ebook-conversion contractors. And getting the resulting work into the various ebook stores doesn’t take a Ph.D. But even though ebooks can cut out plenty of middlemen — traditional publishing houses, distributors, bookstore chains — when New York decided to publish its first ebook, it added a new middleman: Byliner.

A report by Justin Ellis, www.niemanlab.org

'Schadenfreude'? Hamilton Nolan: Jonah Lehrer just does not know how to do journalism

Gawker :: Yesterday we found out that Jonah Lehrer, the Gladwellesque whiz kid who's The New Yorker's newest staff writer, reused his own old writings for every goddamn blog post he's written for The New Yorker so far. A self-plagiarist, he is. Big time. What's the latest? He is an even bigger time plagiarist (self, and otherwise!) than we knew yesterday. And for it, he should probably be eased out of journalism's highest echelon.

Continue to read Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com

Jim Romenesko, here with part of a conversation

@romenesko some think ppl are engaging in schadenfreude with @jonahlehrer. I disagree. I saw no “glee” in major articles. You? Cc @sarahcuda

— Robert Stephens (@rstephens) Juni 20, 2012

Has Jonah Lehrer engaged in real plagiarism? Mathew Ingram thinks so.

if you're wondering whether Jonah Lehrer has also engaged in real plagiarism, check the note on this New Yorker piece: newyorker.com/reporting/2012…

— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) Juni 20, 2012

Why 'The New Yorker' is now embracing the web

Mashable :: Parent company Condé Nast may still think the web is not that important, but The New Yorker does. The 87-year-old magazine decided to make a “big investment” in its website six to eight months ago, Nicholas Thompson, editor of newyorker.com, says. The web team was expanded to 12 full-time employees, including Thompson, who was named editor in March after working “on the magazine side” as a senior features editor for two years. Editor-in-chief David Remnick thought he would be a good fit for the website in part because he had a background in technology coverage, having spent five years as a senior editor at Wired, Thompson says.

Continue to read Lauren Indvik, mashable.com

New Yorker editor David Remnick talks future of print, paywalls

Huffington Post :: New Yorker editor David Remnick weighed in on the future of journalism on Tuesday, maintaining that his magazine has a certain competitive edge over online media. He appeared on "CBS This Morning" for a wide-ranging talk with Charlie Rose. When asked to identify the "essence" of the magazine, Remnick said that he wanted the New Yorker to be about "depth" and "spending a lot of time on particular stories."

A summary of the interview - Continue to read www.huffingtonpost.com

Françoise Mouly: The covers the New Yorker rejected

Guardian :: For every distinctive illustration that the New Yorker puts on its cover each week, there are scores of ideas, sketches and fully realised designs that don't make the cut. Since 1993, when Françoise Mouly became art editor of the magazine, she has been collecting these never-rans – often rejected for being too outrageous – on her office wall.

Gallery - introduction by Killian Fox, www.guardian.co.uk

David Remnick, New Yorker: Print magazines are “pretty good technology”

AllThingsD :: Quality long-form writing has a place in the Internet age, says the New Yorker editor David Remnick — and it’s worth paying for. Asked whether print magazines would last another 20 years, Remnick said, “The New Yorker — you roll it up, you put it in your bag. It’s quite easy; it’s pretty good technology.”

Interview - Continue to read Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com

Scientology strikes back at The New Yorker

New York Times :: The Church of Scientology is certainly no shrinking violet when it comes to defending itself. Known for its aggressive litigiousness and scorched-earth public relations approach, the church’s latest target is The New Yorker, which in February published a 25,000-word article that painted Scientology as corrupt and cultish. In response, the church has produced a 51-page glossy magazine and an accompanying three-part DVD that try to discredit The New Yorker, its writers, editors, fact-checkers and sources.

Continue to read Jeremy W. Peters, mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com