Mr. Magazine

As we move into what we all hope are the post-pandemic days, Mr. Magazine™ and his team are thrilled to announce that the ACT 10 Experience has been rescheduled for October 26-28, 2021. With the theme staying “Change Is The Only Constant,” I think we can all agree, it is a most fitting tribute to the year 2020 for everyone in general, and the magazine media world more specifically. 

We learned about our own resilience in 2020 and about the buoyancy of magazines and their creators and publishers and printers. We are lining our speakers back up and confirming them each and everyday. We should have a new agenda posted very soon, and we are looking forward to seeing everyone in October!! 

The movers & shakers of the magazine and magazine media world, which includes 46 experts that are either CEOs, publishers, editors, printing authorities, digital professionals, distribution and marketing virtuoso’s and many others are descending upon Oxford, Miss. at the Magazine Innovation Center’s ACT 10 Experience between October 26-28, 2021 and it’s going to be explosive!

Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni, the Magazine Innovation Center’s founder and director, is calling in all the national and international magazine giants available to a summit in Oxford. Miss. This call to arms will address the topical theme: Change Is The Only Constant, in typical magazine fashion: head-on and straight up, the only way to face any elephant in the room.

See you October 26-28, 2021. For more information click here.

The Magazine Innovation Center’s ACT 10 Experience Connects Future Industry Leaders To Current Industry Leaders…

It’s all about the Experience. From CEOs to editors; publishers to marketers; printers to digital and social media professionals, the ACT 10 Experience will welcome industry leaders to Oxford, Miss. and to the University of Mississippi, School of Journalism and New Media’s Magazine Innovation Center (MIC) on April 21 through April 23, 2020.

Where else but the ACT (Amplify, Clarify, and Testify) Experience can a student of magazines or marketing sit down with the head of a corporation and brainstorm together? It’s truly like no other professional conference.

This year the ACT 10 Experience will focus on the following six topics under its 10th anniversary theme:

 Change Is The Only Constant

• Transformation of magazines from pure ink on paper entities to multi- magazine media platforms: print, digital, video, audio, events, and social media
• The future of social and marketing roles of magazines and magazine media
• The future of paper and printing industries
• The future of circulation and distribution
• The future of advertising and marketing
• The future of magazine launches

The leaders attending are a phenomenal mix (Click here for agenda) of CEOs, publishers, editors, marketers, printers, paper and digital professionals. There are 55 confirmed speakers from around the globe presenting an array of information and ideas that showcase solutions to the challenges the industry faces today. And with the theme: Change Is The Only Constant, the conversations should be lively and provocative ones.

Over the years, the ACT Experiences have had an amazing track record when it comes to the end results after each and every Experience. Contacts have been made for students, jobs and internships procured and industry professionals have admittedly gained new insights and information about what is being done at the Magazine Innovation Center at the School of Journalism and New Media on the campus of the University of Mississippi with the ACT Experiences.

Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni, the Magazine Innovation Center’s founder and director, is calling in all the national and international magazine giants available to the summit. This call to arms will address the topical theme: Change Is The Only Constant, in typical magazine fashion: head-on and straight up, the only way to face any elephant in the room.

Bonnie Kintzer, president & CEO, Trusted Media Brands will be there to answer Mr. Magazine’s™ call; Andy Clurman, president & CEO, Active Interest Media will also be in full outdoor battle gear, ready to take on any challenge; Vicci Rose, executive vice president & CRO, Us Weekly, will fly in from the East Coast with all the celebrity power she can bring with her; Daren Mazzucca, senior vice president & group publisher, Meredith Corp. will also come from the East, Martha Stewart Living and Real Simple each sending a big thumbs-up along with him. And speaking of the power of the thumbs (digital), Joe Hyrkin, CEO of issuu, and Karolyn Hart, founder & CEO, InspireHub will also be on hand to share those integrated digits of importance as both print and digital continue to work together to rein in this monumental challenge called “change.”

Also from across the pond, Simon Leslie, CEO & cofounder, Ink, will be hopping over from the U.K. Sanne Groot Koerkamp from The Netherlands will also be there and Sue Holt, director, ITP Consumer, United Arab Emirates was thrilled to be on Mr. Magazine’s™ team, as he was thrilled to have her there.

Then, fellow southerners from Garden & Gun Magazine, Rebecca Wesson Darwin, president & CEO and David Di Benedetto, senior vice president & editor in chief, will be onsite as well, so it may get a bit rowdy! Us Southerners know how to throw a party, whether we’re born down south or transplanted here.

Dan Heffernan, vice president & chief product manager, Advantage CS, will be onboard for the summit and Krifka Steffey, director, Merchandise & Newsstand, Barnes & Noble, definitely wanted to be there, plus the usual suspects, Bo Sacks, president, Precision Media, Tony Silber, president, Long Hill Media, & James G. Elliott, president, James G. Elliott Co. Without the latter three nimble magazine and magazine media cohorts, the ACT Experiences would never go off as smoothly as they do, and that’s also thanks to our official ACT scribe, Linda Ruth, PSCS Consulting.

And of course, those upstart entrepreneurs wouldn’t dare miss a Mr. Magazine™ call: Tyler Nacho, publisher and editor in chief, Kill Pretty Magazine, Andréa Butler, editor in chief, Sesi Magazine, and Doni Ambrosine, editor in chief, Culturs Magazine, Chris Walsh, founder & editor in chief, Fifty Grande Magazine, and John Thames, CEO/publisher, Covey Rise and Bourbon+ Magazines.

“The ACT Experience was created 10 years ago as a think and do forum where our students, the future industry leaders, could connect and interact with the currents industry leaders,” said Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni, founder and director, Magazine Innovation Center. “In addition, the Experience showcases what I like to refer to as our 3 M’s: Magazines, Music & Mississippi.”

Space is limited and the registration fee has been underwritten by Quad, our Leadership sponsor. So, ACT today and get registered! Click here to join us!

See You at ACT 10!

April 21 – 23, 2020

Look who is coming to the Magazine Innovation Center’s ACT 10 Experience at The University of Mississippi’s School of Journalism and New Media April 21 to 23.  The list of the confirmed speakers so far listed alphabetically:

Donnyale Ambrosine – Editor in Chief, Culturs magazine

Joe Berger – Publishers Marketing and Sales Consultant, Joe Berger Associates

Doug Bitto – Principal, Advantage Circulation Consulting

Bruce Brandfon – Chief Media Officer, Duration Media, LLC.

Nicole Bowman – Principal, Bowman Circulation Marketing

Andréa Butler – Founder and Editor in Chief, Sesi Magazine

Andy Clurman – President & CEO, Active Interest Media

Deborah Corn – Intergalactic Ambassador to the Printerverse

Brittany Duhon – Business Travel Sales Manager, The Adolphus

James G. Elliott – President, James G. Elliott Co.

Allen Filson -Director, Professional Services, Canon Solutions America, Inc.

John French – Cofounder, French LLC

Karolyn Hart – Founder and CEO, Inspirehub Inc., Canada

Dan Heffernan – Vice President & Chief Product Manager, Advantage CS

Mona Hidayet – Executive Director, Clients and Products, Advantage CS

Sue Holt – Managing Director, ITP Consumer, United Arab Emirates

Joe Hyrkin – CEO, issuu

Jeff Joseph – Publisher & Editorial Director, Luckbox Magazine

Bonnie Kintzer – President & CEO, Trusted Media Brands

Sanne Groot Koerkamp – Editor in Chief, Quest magazine, The Netherlands

Michael Kusek – Publisher, Different Leaf Magazine

Simon Leslie – CEO & Cofounder, Ink, The United Kingdom

Matthew Lulay —  Senior Director, Mather Consulting

Jerry Lynch – President, Magazine and Book Retail Association

Chris Lyons – President, Brand United

Daren Mazzucca – SVP, Group Publisher, Martha Stewart Living Magazine, Real Simple Magazine, Meredith Corp.

John Mennell – Founder, Magazine Literacy

Tyler Nacho – Publisher and Editor in Chief, Kill Pretty magazine

Jo Packham – Creator & Editor in Chief, Where Women Create, Where Women Cook, What Women Create

Victoria Rose – EVP, CRO, Us Weekly, American Media, LLC

Lori Rosen – Founder & President, Rosen Group

Linda Ruth – Publishing Management And Consulting, PSCS Consulting and Official Act Experience Scribe

Bo Sacks – President, Precision Media

Brigitte Schmidt Gwyn – President & CEO, MPA: The Association of Magazine Media

Tony Silber – President, Long Hill Media

Krifka Steffey – Director, Merchandise, Newsstand, Barnes & Noble

John Thames – CEO/Publisher, Covey Rise Magazine & Bourbon +Magazine

Chris Walsh – Founder & Editor In Chief, Fifty Grande Magazine

And here are some more info regarding The Magazine Innovation Center at The University of Mississippi’s School of Journalism and New Media announces the theme for its 10th anniversary ACT (Amplify, Clarify, and Testify) Experience: Change Is The Only Constant.  The ACT 10 Experience is also proud to announce that it is welcoming the MPA: The Association of Magazine Media’s IMAG 2020 conference to the magazine media experience in Oxford, Mississippi.  The dates for the event are set for April 21 to 23, 2020.

The Magazine Innovation Center was founded in 2009.  The Center is the birthplace of the annual ACT Experience, which in 2020, will be in its 10th year. Each year MIC strives to provide industry leaders and aspiring media members a Think-and-Do Experience, brimming with ideas, inspiration and a little fun along the way. It’s also a time when students (future industry leaders) can meet and network with current industry leaders and professionals in the media community to further their own portfolios and knowledge. The magazine students are paired with industry leaders to shadow and learn from their expertise and experience. It’s a three-day world filled with possibilities for everyone; from potential careers for students to new friendships and business conversations between leaders.

The topics covered in this year’s ACT Experience are:

1. Transformation of magazines from pure ink on paper entities to multi- magazine media platforms: print, digital, video, audio, events, and social media.
2. The future of social and marketing roles of magazines and magazine media
3. The future of paper and printing industries
4. The future of circulation and distribution
5. The future of advertising and marketing
6. The future of magazine launches

Click here to check the list of the confirmed speakers so far and click here to register for the ACT 10 Experience.

Space is limited so don’t delay…. register today.

The Magazine Innovation Center at The University of Mississippi’s School of Journalism and New Media announces the theme for its 10th anniversary ACT (Amplify, Clarify, and Testify) Experience: Change Is The Only Constant.  The ACT 10 Experience is also proud to announce that it is welcoming the MPA: The Association of Magazine Media’s IMAG 2020 conference to the magazine media experience in Oxford, Mississippi.  The dates for the event are set for April 21 to 23, 2020.

The Magazine Innovation Center was founded in 2009.  The Center is the birthplace of the annual ACT Experience, which in 2020, will be in its 10th year. Each year MIC strives to provide industry leaders and aspiring media members a Think-and-Do Experience, brimming with ideas, inspiration and a little fun along the way. It’s also a time when students (future industry leaders) can meet and network with current industry leaders and professionals in the media community to further their own portfolios and knowledge. The magazine students are paired with industry leaders to shadow and learn from their expertise and experience. It’s a three-day world filled with possibilities for everyone; from potential careers for students to new friendships and business conversations between leaders.

The topics covered in this year’s ACT Experience are:

1. Transformation of magazines from pure ink on paper entities to multi- magazine media platforms: print, digital, video, audio, events, and social media.
2. The future of social and marketing roles of magazines and magazine media
3. The future of paper and printing industries
4. The future of circulation and distribution
5. The future of advertising and marketing
6. The future of magazine launches

Click here to check the list of the confirmed speakers so far and click here to register for the ACT 10 Experience.

Space is limited so don’t delay…. register today.