Category Archives: blogs, magazines & journalism

Magazines to help Japanese women learn english: From Knight Ridder (via the Kansas City Star), comes a story about magazines marketed in Japan for women who want to learn english. Quote: Unlike conventional magazines published for studying English that focus … Continue reading →

The last Martha vulturette update: Longtime rexblog readers (please, no oxymoron jokes) know that I used to have a recurring feature that linked to stories speculating about who the next Martha Stewart would be. (For example, here and here and … Continue reading →

Swag free? Talk about putting a damper on the holidays (second item), Fairchild’s 900 staffers can’t accept gifts from advertisers, sources or vendors this year. (P.S. The item right below it reports that my table-mate-friends (we’ve sat together twice in … Continue reading →

Nashville Mandolin Ensemble Get in the holiday spirit: If you live in Nashville, please promise me you’ll attend at least one of the following two concerts. If you don’t, you might as well live in a town where your neighbors … Continue reading →

Shocking findings! MediaPost’s Michael Shields reports a new study commissioned by the Magazine Publishers of America shows that magazines are without a doubt the most effective advertising medium ever in the entire history of the universe, or something like that. … Continue reading →