VOR DEBATE- What's the future of the magazine industry?
Nov 01, 2012, 06:11 PM
London's leading entertainment Time Out is the latest magazine to go free. It began life in 1968, peeked in the late 1990s but has seen numbers dwindling since changes in magazine consumption trends. So what is the impact of free titles and will free publications overtake paid-fors?
VoR's Breandan Cole discusses this with his guests Greg Miall, project director at Time Out;Robert Picard,director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University; Lisa O'Carroll, journalist for The Guardian newspaper and Scott Rodgers, lecturer in Media Theory at London’s Birkbeck University #ruvr#voiceofrussia#russia#miall#timeout