Sad Ending to the Ladies' Home Journal Era

Can this magazine be saved? Unfortunately, no. Ladies’ Home Journal, America’s oldest women’s magazine, will cease monthly publishing with its July issue. A spokesman for its owner, Meredith Corporation, said the 131-year-old title will totter on as a newsstand-only quarterly.

What a sad ending for the publication that was once considered America’s premier women’s magazine. Launched in 1883 by Cyrus Curtis, who also started The Saturday Evening Post, LHJ developed out of the popular women’s page in Curtis’s first publication, a periodical for farmers. His wife was the first editor, and the second, a Dutch immigrant named Edward Bok, …read more

Source: AdAge

Amerikanische Uni verbietet Selfies

Selbstportraits via Smartphone gehören heute zum Alltag. Dem Dekan der University of South Florida geht das aber zu weit. Er hat für die Studenten per sofort ein Selfie-Verbot erlassen. …read more

Source: Netzwoche

Die Cover der Woche: ”Hundewelt”, ”Vice”, ”SIMs Kultur”, ”Brand Eins”

Unsere Cover der Woche sind dieses Mal plakativ in besten Sinne: Ein tragendes Motiv, zack, fertig. Größe entscheidet. Da wird selbst eine Küchenschabe zu einem echten Hingucker. Süße Hunde gehen sowieso immer – nicht nur im Internet.

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Source: Horizont

Samsung bereitet globalen Pitch vor

Milliarden-Etat: Bislang war man lediglich von einem Europa-Pitch ausgegangen. Doch der Elektronikkonzern Samsung überprüft nun offenbar weltweit seine Agenturbeziehungen in den Bereichen Kreation, Media und Digital.

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Source: WUV

Cannes Lions 2014: Ije Nwokorie ist neuer Präsident der "Design"-Jury

Er tritt die Nachfolge von Karl Heiselman an. …read more

Source: Persoenlich

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Frau überfährt Hund: Russische Autokameras zeichnen alles auf. Wieso das Video dennoch lustig ist? Sehen Sie selbst. …read more

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Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, Boxer Wrongly Convicted of Murder, Dead at 76

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer imprisoned 19 years for a crime he did not commit and whose plight became a rallying point for racial inequality — as well as a Bob Dylan song and a movie starring Denzel Washington — has died. He was 76.

Carter died in Toronto after a long battle with prostate cancer, the Associated Press reported.

Carter was convicted in 1967 of three murders at a bar in his native New Jersey, and …read more

Source: Mashable

General Mills Pulls New Legal Policy After Consumer Uproar

Seeking to quell a consumer backlash, General Mills has abandoned a new legal policy that told consumers they gave up their right to sue the company if they engaged in online activities such as joining its online community, subscribing to its email newsletters or printing a coupon. Instead, consumers would have had to settle disputes with arbitration or informal negotiations.

The policy, which General Mills posted on its website with an effective date of April 2, provoked a wave of complaints in social media after The New York Times reported on it last week. On Saturday night, the company announced it was dropping the new legal terms.

“Those terms — and our intentions — were widely misread, causing concern among consumers,” the company said on its corporate blog. “So we’ve listened — and we’re changing them back to what they were before.”

Seeking to quell a consumer backlash, General Mills has abandoned a new legal policy that told consumers they gave up their right to sue the company if they engaged in online activities such as joining its online community, subscribing to its email newsletters or printing a coupon. Instead, consumers would have had to settle disputes with arbitration or informal negotiations.

The policy, which General Mills posted on its website with an effective date of April 2, provoked a wave of complaints in social media after The New York Times reported on it last week. On Saturday night, the company announced it …read more

Source: AdAge