NYRM is a magazine about magazines. We examine the insides of the industry and wonder out loud about its future. You’ll want a copy of the real thing, but here’s a taste of what’s inside:
Covering Britney Britney! Britney! Britney! (Need we say more?)
Nappy Roots In Search of That Natural Look
Mag-O-Mercials Catalogs in Disguise
Full Disclosure
Michael Scherer probes into Time Inc.’s coverage of its corporate parent
AOL Time Warner
A Worm in the Big Apple
Alberto Armendariz analyzes Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends
and Alienate People
Annals of the Anal
Adeel Hassan gets the facts on fact-checkers
Midlife Crisis
Traci Spencer examines the troubling transformation of a black institution
The American Lawyer
O. Carl Unegbu deliberates on its contested identity
Inside Maxim
Jacqueline Gallo mingles with the men and boys behind the pages
The New Girl Order
Sabrina Crawford learns that the third time is a charm for BUST
Celery… So Uncool
Ruth Jacobs plays a teenager and gets the skinny on YM’s growing waistline
Consaba Gal vs. Cosmo Girl
Susanne Beal explores the cultural clash between Japanese and American
magazines
Warning!
Catherine Brophy overdoses on pharmaceutical advertisements and lives
to tell about it
From Varga to Versace
Jessica Ullian proves nothing is shocking in a world of magazine advertising
Allafrica.com by Michael Scherer
Zing by Sabrina Crawford
Yolk by Sandra Lee
Mavin by Susanne Beal
Heeb by Jessica Ullian
Vice by Jacqueline Gallo
Seed by Catherine Brophy
Simplycity by Ruth Jacobs
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs by Adeel Hassan
NACLA by Alberto Armendariz
NV by Traci Spencer