For those of you who have been wondering, as I have, about the future of Discover magazine's distinguished blog network, the early word is: Nothing will change.
That's what the publisher, Kalmbach Publishing Co., is telling the staff. As I...
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5Sep 2012
For those of you who have been wondering, as I have, about the future of Discover magazine's distinguished blog network, the early word is: Nothing will change.
That's what the publisher, Kalmbach Publishing Co., is telling the staff. As I reported here in mid-August, Kalmbach executives told editor Corey Powell that they "like the magazine as it is, and the intention is to keep the magazine intact." The same message has been sent to the bloggers, who include the distinguished writers and scientists Sean Carroll, Carl Zimmer, Ed Yong, Phil Plait, and others. But the publisher has not provided a lot of detail.
"We weren't told anything ahead of time, and not much since. But what we were told is that the blogs are expected to go on more or less exactly as before," Carroll told me in an...
13Aug 2012
Discover magazine's publisher announced today that the magazine would be moving to Waukesha, Wisc., where the publisher has its headquarters.
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Discover magazine's publisher announced today that the magazine would be moving to Waukesha, Wisc., where the publisher has its headquarters.
Kalmbach Publishing Co. said it would close Discover's offices in New York in January, 2013.
Kalmbach said this was "a strategic move to better leverage all its publishing resources and integrate its science media properties," a phrase I trust would never appear in the magazine. (Disclosure: I write frequently for Discover.)
The release said that Discover editor-in-chief Corey Powell "will continue to lead the magazine through the transition"--meaning, I assume, that he will not be leading it after the transition. It said that he and executive editor Pamela Weintraub will "continue to have an...
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