Tag Archives: ASME

Media By Aaron Gell

March 10, 2010 | XXXXXX Views | Comment

ASME shut-out for Rolling Stone

We’re going to go out on a limb and say the offices of Rolling Stone are not a cheerful place to be right now. The mag was conspicuously absent from the National Magazine Award nominations, released today. Worse, Paste, informally known as “the magazine your mom might subscribe you to if she’d ever heard of [...]

Media By Aaron Gell

May 11, 2009 | XXXXXX Views | 8 Comments

The OK! magazine conspiracy

What’s really happening at OK! magazine, you ask? The celebrity tabloid weekly, which has been lopping staff members and is expected to fire many more this week, is said to be hurriedly going upscale. Which is strange, right? Because while tabloids aren’t having an especially easy time of things, the luxury market is in the [...]

Navel Gazing By Drew Grant

May 8, 2009 | XXXXXX Views | Comment

Other URLS That Aren't Us

Sometimes people wonder why we chose such a funny acronym for our name. It’s because ASME is technically “The American Society of Magazine Editors” which most of us here used to be, but currently are not. However, we weren’t the only ones who thought that this clever play on words would make for a great [...]

Advertising By Drew Grant

May 1, 2009 | XXXXXX Views | Comment

My Ish With ASME

The American Society of Magazine Editors may share a fancy-shmancy title that is suspiciously close to our, but that’s not my grievance with them today. My problems stem from the recent outcry of ASME that some magazines are using creative advertising to pass off paid-for ads as actual magazine content. See: ESPN’s anti-Gatorade cover, or [...]