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Magazines were supposed to die in the digital age. Why haven't they?

  • Written by Julian Novitz, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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In the classic comedy Ghostbusters (1984), newly hired secretary Janice raises the subject of reading, while idly flipping through the pages of a magazine. The scientist Egon Spengler responds with a brusque dismissal: “print is dead.”

Egon’s words now seem prescient. The prevailing assumption of the past couple of...

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