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Magazine industry influencers

From CJR, a special report on Magazines and their Web Sites. Here is Michael Kinsley's speech at the 2010 Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame Award (and more). The 2010 Folio 40: Our annual list of magazine industry influencers and innovators. AirTran Airways' Go Magazine named Best Inflight Magazine. From MediaWeek, here is the latest Magazine Hot List 2010; and print is dying, really? Graydon Carter offers evidence to the contrary. Research finds that “high quality” does little to prevent many new magazines from failing within their first five years. Web 2.0 and the heartbreak of algorithmia: It’s time for publishers to defend their business model. The buzz is back: An article on magazine publishers and iPad (and more on the hype). Digital Americana is the first literary magazine developed especially for the interactive tablet experience. Pankaj Mishra on America's little magazines, which "keep alive the ideal of the independent intellectual". There’s an odd feeling of stability reading the stodgy left-of-center political magazine New Republic, but is Leon Wieseltier ready to vamoose? The storied radical magazine Ramparts did transform the nation — for the worse (and more and more). The secret of the National Enquirer's success: The supermarket tabloid is in the running to win a Pulitzer prize (which may be undeserved). An excerpt from Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, "America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine" by Henry Scott (and more). In 2010, we will live on the Moon: Remembering the giddy futurism of Omni magazine. On Jan. 11, 1902, Popular Mechanics set out to make mechanics popular. Magazine fiction from the 1890s-1950 gave us some of our most-loved characters from Sherlock Holmes to Hercule Poirot; with magazines in decline, where to now?