James Mitchell

"We all know the newspaper industry has been hit long before the economic downturn of 2009. As a magazine designer for a newspaper company, I was curious as to how the industry is doing as a whole: What parts of the industry have the most growth? Where are the jobs? Is employment falling? How do books, magazines and newspapers compare with "new media"?"

"The Washington Post has suspended veteran sports columnist Mike Wise for publishing fabricated information on Twitter. He announced the one-month suspension on his radio show Tuesday."

"The idea of pointing audiences towards interesting material is far from a new thing. Print outlets have been syndicating articles for almost as long as they've existed, while specialist magazines such as the Week emerged in the mid 1990s to collate and distribute journalism. Then, of course, there's the venerable Reader's Digest – nearly a century old – which promised to bring its audiences the best writing, even if it took a hatchet to most of it along the way."

"As long as there has been individuals like myself putting free content out there, there have been traditional content sources milking off of it."

"Compare the whole 400-plus word article with the original press release, and – bar six words, by our count, which were changed to meet Guardian house style – it isn't just similar. It's absolutely identical."

"Magazines have long used focus groups to tailor their package. New Scientist took another route for its latest issue, testing whether neuromarketing, which examines the brain’s response to products and brands, could help make the magazine more appealing. "