Andrew Calcutt

magazines under the microscope

Hello! to Privatisation

Essays in Magazine Media, No 4, December 2012 Andrew Calcutt Hello! was launched in Britain in 1988. Then, as now,

Essays in Magazine Media, No 3, December 2012 Andrew Calcutt Compared to Joseph Addison, writer/editor/publisher of The Spectator, Charles Dickens

Essays in Magazine Media, No 1, November 2012 Andrew Calcutt Take any picture of Kate Moss. Note the physical attributes

Why the C-word won’t work for commercial magazine publishers Andrew Calcutt, 8 January 2010 ‘Let’s make it a community’. To publishers wondering

Andrew Calcutt, November 2009 Summary: Magazines are mercantile: they originated as accessories to market expansion before turning

Andrew Calcutt, October 2009 Summary: Magazines, perhaps more than newspapers, have always offset their reporting of the outside

Summary: The continous role of magazines is to contribute to the mediation of contradictory social relations, i.e. the essential contradiction