The Press Gazette reports that “young people have no interest in magazines and cannot see the point in them”, according to Ashley Norris of online publishers Shiny Media.
Death of the magazine: Goodbye to all this?
Very depressing, but I disagree (well I’d have to, otherwise why would I be doing the course). Magazines have a brigher future ahead of them than newspapers, not that that’s hard. A beautifully designed magazine is a treat, and more of an aesthetic pleasure than a newspaper. People may want their news on the internet in bite-sized form, but magazines can go into subjects far more in in-depth, long features. Magazines must of course interact with multimedia, but they should also produce great content, such as longer features, that cannot be replicated that easily on the web. And as Mike Soutar of Shortlist says, new business models must be explored.
Of course, I am biased towards magazines, but I hope they have a long future ahead of them. I’ll certainly keep buying them in obscene quantities. Mainly so I can get a job.
Student Journalist, Magazine Fancier 