Morning Media Mix
In an article this morning in The New Republic, Jessica Grose considers the (generally incorrect) assumption that women’s magazines—Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire—don’t do serious journalism. Ms. Grose notes out that “women’s magazines have received zero ASME nominations for reporting in the past 30 years and zero ASME nominations for fiction in the past 20 years.” Not just wins, nominations. Unlike men’s magazines—GQ, Esquire—women’s magazines aren’t even allowed to compete with general-interest magazines like The New Yorker or The New Republic; rather, they’re shunted to their own category, “service and fashion magazines.” (TNR)
In less depressing media news: Read More
