Longform

  • Podcast
  • Best Of
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013
    • 2012
  • Archive

    • Sections
    • Publications
    • Writers
    • Tags
  • Random Article
  • Contact

    • podcast@longform.org

Tags

Magazines

Media

How Kinfolk Defined the Millennial Aesthetic

And unraveled behind the scenes.

Lisa Abend Vanity Fair Mar 2020 30min Permalink

Media

What’s Left of Condé Nast

The twilight of a magazine empire.

Reeves Wiedeman New York Oct 2019 Permalink

Media

Thrashed

If Thrasher is Vogue for skaters, 53-year-old Jake Phelps is the sport’s Anna Wintour.

Willy Staley California Sunday Mar 2016 20min Permalink

Media

Judging by the Cover

How the magazine industry’s identity crisis is playing out on its front page.

Alyssa Bereznak The Ringer Sep 2018 20min Permalink

Politics Media

The Passing of a Sixties Showman

How Warren Hinckle and Ramparts magazine helped revive muckraking journalism and launch the New Left.

Peter Collier The New Criterion Oct 2016 Permalink

Media

The Last Lifestyle Magazine

How Kinfolk makes money while driving people crazy.

Kyle Chayka Racked Mar 2016 25min Permalink

In Conversation: Tina Brown

A wide-ranging chat with the magazine editor.

Michael Kinsley New York Nov 2012 20min Permalink

History

The New Yorker Records: Historical Note

A history of The New Yorker and its editors, from founder Harold Ross through Tina Brown.

William Stingone New York Public Library Jan 1996 15min Permalink

Untimely

Henry Luce and Time vs. Harold Ross and The New Yorker. What was at stake in the epic magazine rivalry of the 20th century?

Jill Lepore New Yorker Apr 2010 25min Permalink

Interview: George Lois

George Lois never actually worked at Esquire, he simply designed the most iconic magazine covers of the 60s as a moonlighting gig while revolutionizing (and, generally pissing off) the advertising industry by day.

George Lois, Rocco Castoro Vice Jan 2011 20min Permalink