Few reasons behind July’s decline in new magazine launches
August 8, 2007Under the headline “Fewer New Mags Launch in July” Erik Sass wrote a brief article, based on an interview with me, in Tuesday’s MediaPost’s Media Daily News . The article’s lead is here:
JULY SAW THE FEWEST NEW magazine launches in years, according to Samir Husni, a professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi, better known as “Mr. Magazine” for his obsessive observation and analysis of the business. Although it’s easy to jump to the conclusion that Internet competition is to blame–reciting the familiar if inaccurate mantra that “print is dead”–Husni says the reason has nothing to do with the Web.
To read the rest of Sass’s article click here.
Mr. Magazine 
I resent that they call your well-known magazine interest “obsessive.” Harumph! You are merely “curious.”