Podcast Episodes

Charles Emmerson (Founder: Translator)

Season 7 Episode 93

LOST IN TRANSLATOR

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There are more than 7,000 languages in the world and there’s a good chance that you don’t speak or read most of them. Being an English-language speaker is, among other things, a hu…

Published on 10 hours ago

Michael Grynbaum (Author,  Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast: The Media Dynasty that Reshaped America)

Season 7 Episode 92

AN ELEGY FOR THE ELITE

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Michael Grynbaum is a correspondent for The New York Times, where he has covered media, politics, and culture for 18 years. He’s reported on three presidential campaigns, two N…

Published on 1 week ago

Greg Grigorian & Vicson Guevara (Creators: Playground)

Season 7 Episode 91

POP GOES PRINT

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“Today, creativity feels like it’s being squeezed into smaller and smaller boxes. Content is designed to chase likes, rack up views, serve a clear function—a purpose….we’re here—to cel…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Sarah Ball (Editor: WSJ. Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, more)

Season 7 Episode 90

SHE LOVES HER WORK

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The word ‘unicorn’ gets thrown around a lot these days. But in our book, Sarah Ball is the Real Deal. The editor of WSJ. Magazine is a student of old-guard, in-the-trenches, work-o…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Yannic Moeken, Sandra von Mayer-Myrtenhain, and Junshen Wu (Founders: Famous for My Dinner Parties)

Season 7 Episode 89

A NEW RECIPE FOR FOOD MAGAZINES

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You may think a magazine called Famous for My Dinner Parties would be about food or entertaining—and I wouldn’t blame you if you did. You wouldn’t be wrong, but you al…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

William Randolph Hearst III (Chairman: Hearst Corp; Founder & Editor, Alta, more)

Season 7 Episode 88

THE GOOD CITIZEN

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This episode is a special one for us here at Magazeum. We even gave it its own code name: “Project Rosebud” (IYKYK). But if you only know our guest as the grandson of the man who ins…

Published on 1 month ago

Keeley McNamara & Jen Swetzoff (Founders: Anyway)

Season 7 Episode 87

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT

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While it’s not true that kids don’t read, it may be true that adults aren’t teaching kids to read. It’s also true that today’s children face issues that those of the past didn’t.…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Matthew Rolston (Photographer: Harper’s Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Interview more)

Season 7 Episode 86

A MODERN FORM OF WORSHIP

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Name the five photographers who, more than any others, defined the dramatic shift in the approach to magazine photography in the late eighties and early nineties. There’s Her…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Josh Jones (Author: “Just Make Your Magazine”)

Season 7 Episode 85

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

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Josh Jones has done a lot of things when it comes to magazines: Editor. Writer. Maker. Custom publisher. Mentor. Evangelist. All of the above. 

Has Josh helped write a book a…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Steven Heller (Designer, Author, Educator)

Season 7 Episode 85

GUARDIAN AT THE GATEFOLD

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Today’s guest has become almost synonymous with graphic design and editorial publishing. His career began in the defiant New York “sex press” of the late 1960s, where not-act…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago