Pearson, it has turned out, has been one of the better media performers of the year. Yes, the shares are down 17 per cent since January, but that is almost exactly in line with the all-share index and most media stocks have been battered by worries about Google and the [...]

“Glory to the great October!” A Russian poster commemorating the 1917 Revolution, from Steven Heller's new book, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State In Iron Fists, an illustrated survey of totalitarian visual propaganda, Steven Heller offers an insight into the visual representations of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Communist [...]

Like BitTorrent, but for magazines, Mygazines.com is a dumping ground for your favorite printed materials. Full issues of popular titles all scanned for your digital perusing — and just like TiVo, you can skip the ads! (Just click "next page.") On our end, the site has given us a chance [...]

Corey Dade reports on the presidential campaign. CHICAGO - To those watching CNN's live broadcast today of Sen. Barack Obama's first public appearance since returning from overseas, the standing ovation he received may have been the normal, even expected reaction. Obama Enthusiasm for Sen. Obama is precisely what event organizers [...]

Getting into World of Warcraft for the first time means hours of grinding: performing the same tasks over and over to “level up” a character. But far from being boring, grinding is one of the great unsung joys of gaming. Last week, I finally decided to start playing World of [...]

It's one of the weird paradoxes in current media trends: While newspapers and consumer magazines are both taking it on the chin in 2008, some magazines distributed via newspapers are doing quite well. Among the leaders are American Profile and Relish, from the Publishing Group of America, which have seen [...]