Because of Niches, Magazines Still Strong

January 20, 2008, Folio Magazine-
Newspaper publishers fret that younger readers go online for their news, but magazines continue to command loyal audiences, many of them young. "There are more magazines than ever before," said Samir Husni, a journalism professor at the University of Mississippi known as "Mr. Magazine" with a Web site dedicated to the subject. "There are more specialized magazines
today than there were in the mid-1960s." Husni said magazines have changed, most notably with the demise of "the 800-pound gorilla," he said, referring to general-interest magazine.
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