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Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by gallegojaime »

yuy910616 wrote: post #18

I've been reading the Economist for about 10 years. It provides great coverage on big issues, and recently, some fun ones (billie eilish comes to mind). It's unique in that it feels "slower", more deliberate, and thoughtful than most newspaper/tv channels. It gives context and covers multiple viewpoints before giving an opinion. Its daily espresso newsletter and quarterly tech issues are always interesting too. I've…

Related to the Economist's areas of writing: what do people think of Harvard Business Review? Does it have valuable content?

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by paganel »

TooSmugToFail wrote: post #67
yuy910616 wrote: post #18

I've been reading the Economist for about 10 years. It provides great coverage on big issues, and recently, some fun ones (billie eilish comes to mind). It's unique in that it feels "slower", more deliberate, and thoughtful than most newspaper/tv channels. It gives context and covers multiple viewpoints before giving an opinion. Its daily espresso newsletter and quarterly tech issues are always interesting too. I've…

Love the Economist. At previous work, we had Financial Times subscription. It, obviously, is a more finance-bent, but I find it a delight in journalist professionality and the deepness of commentary. The weekend edition gives a more eclectic mix of topics and is a really informative read. I simply love FT.

> I simply love FT.

For what it's worth I've direct email-ed two of their opinion writers and they dutifully responded (and not the standard "thank you for your email/for reading my piece" stuff), I really appreciated that. For comparison, the journalists from my country are more primadonas, I don't see them answering any readers' emails (for starters, their email addresses are not provided in the newspaper's website).

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by vsskanth »

gallegojaime wrote: post #71
yuy910616 wrote: post #18

I've been reading the Economist for about 10 years. It provides great coverage on big issues, and recently, some fun ones (billie eilish comes to mind). It's unique in that it feels "slower", more deliberate, and thoughtful than most newspaper/tv channels. It gives context and covers multiple viewpoints before giving an opinion. Its daily espresso newsletter and quarterly tech issues are always interesting too. I've…

Related to the Economist's areas of writing: what do people think of Harvard Business Review? Does it have valuable content?

You can subscribe to their newsletter. I was subscribed but eventually got bored as their content was too generic and not actionable

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by rbanffy »

Mine are IEEE's "Computer" and "Software". Their "Annals of the History of Computing" is also a great read. Horrendously expensive, unfortunately. IEEE also has the IBM journals behind a paywall. I real shame.

ACM's "Communications of the ACM" is also very good.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by TooSmugToFail »

wombatmobile wrote: post #47
ibn_khaldun wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I for one find your criticism to be enlightening and valuable. If I may ask you to continue, what qualities do you think are signs of good experiences in print and digital literature?

Good question. I’m wondering if my online experiences have changed my expectations and readiness for print. 30 years ago, I’d luxuriate in a copy of Foreign Affairs, The Economist, New Yorker, Interview, NME. Each of those publications gave me subject depth I couldn’t get anywhere else, and the long form articles would provide background and context. They were another world. All I had to do was pay the cover price an…

Thank you for your insight, very interesting.

I would particularly underline 'skilful curation' as a very strong selling point. The ability to see through all the noise, and select for relevance/interest.

Also, inside information is a big one. In a comment above, I said I appreciate Financial Times for their professionality of journalism: their journalists will often times investigate complex topics, calling up subjects, knocking on doors (the amazing coverage of the recent Wirecard scandal comes to mind) its exactly the type of original, often inside information that is worth paying for.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by dingaling »

aWidebrant wrote: post #31

N+1 and The Baffler both seem to be constitutionally incapable of releasing a bad issue. Highly recommended. Jacobin is uneven, but if you read Reason et al you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy now and then to keep up with ideological writing in the land of the living. The Economist is an incredibly well written magazine that unfortunately - editorials aside - can't escape the compulsion of not even being wrong.…

> can't escape the compulsion of not even being wrong.

On the few occasions that the E has run stories on topics I know well, it has been remarkably accurate and insightful.

All of the regional reports are written by independent, freelance correspondents so they stand or fall on the quality of their work.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by alexpetralia »

gallegojaime wrote: post #71
yuy910616 wrote: post #18

I've been reading the Economist for about 10 years. It provides great coverage on big issues, and recently, some fun ones (billie eilish comes to mind). It's unique in that it feels "slower", more deliberate, and thoughtful than most newspaper/tv channels. It gives context and covers multiple viewpoints before giving an opinion. Its daily espresso newsletter and quarterly tech issues are always interesting too. I've…

Related to the Economist's areas of writing: what do people think of Harvard Business Review? Does it have valuable content?

No.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by aitait »

Seconding The Economist. A league on its own. :-)

I never subscribed, but like/liked to read (e.g. at B&N)

THE NEW YORKER 2600 FOREIGN POLICY HARPER'S THE ATLANTIC Even the Rolling Stone can have good articles. E.g.: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-amer...

Re: Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?

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Post by firebombzero »

aitait wrote: post #79

Seconding The Economist. A league on its own. :-) I never subscribed, but like/liked to read (e.g. at B&N) THE NEW YORKER 2600 FOREIGN POLICY HARPER'S THE ATLANTIC Even the Rolling Stone can have good articles. E.g.: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-amer...

The Economist if you want to get all the wrong information about the world.
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