An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet , through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks.
31-409: Queerty is an online magazine and newspaper covering gay- and LGBTQ-oriented entertainment and news, founded in 2005 by David Hauslaib. As of June 2015, the site had more than five million monthly unique visitors. Queerty was founded by David Hauslaib in 2005, with Bradford Shellhammer serving as founding editor. The site briefly shut down operations in 2011, before being sold to Q.Digital, Inc.,
62-498: A blog and also with online newspapers , but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control. Magazines typically have editors or editorial boards who review submissions and perform a quality control function to ensure that all material meets the expectations of the publishers (those investing time or money in its production) and the readership. Many large print publishers now provide digital reproduction of their print magazine titles through various online services for
93-517: A disruptive technology to traditional publishing houses. The high cost of print publication and large Web readership has encouraged these publishers to embrace the World Wide Web as a marketing and content delivery system and another medium for delivering their advertisers' messages. In the late 1990s, e-zine publishers began adapting to the interactive and informative qualities of the internet instead of simply duplicating print magazines on
124-495: A bill signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would force Florida students and professors to register their political views with the state of Florida . The article went viral on Twitter and its false claim was promoted by various Democratic commentators, by Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried (who later deleted her tweet linking to the Salon article), and by novelist Stephen King (who later expressed regret for posting
155-430: A block from Madison Square Garden , for non-payment of $ 90,000 in back rent. In February 2017, Spear Point Capital invested $ 1 million into Salon, taking a 29% equity stake and three seats on the company's board. On August 30, 2019, Salon.com was sold for $ 5 million by Salon Media Group ( Expert Market : SLNM ) to privately held Salon.com, LLC, which is owned by Chris Richmond and Drew Schoentrup. Aspects of
186-485: A community of writers and bloggers. Salon closed its online chat board "Table Talk" on June 10, 2011, without stating an official reason for ending that section of the site. On July 16, 2012, Salon announced that it would be featuring content from Mondoweiss . Salon Media Group sold The WELL to the group of members in September 2012. Salon has been unprofitable through its entire history. Since 2007,
217-456: A curated site with some of its content being featured on Salon , it fell into editorial neglect and was closed in March 2015. Responding to the question, "How far do you go with the tabloid sensibility to get readers?," former Salon.com editor-in-chief David Talbot said: Is Salon more tabloid-like? Yeah, we've made no secret of that. I've said all along that our formula here is that we're
248-482: A fee. These service providers also refer to their collections of these digital format products as online magazines, and sometimes as digital magazines. Online magazines representing matters of interest to specialists or societies for academic subjects, science, trade, or industry are typically referred to as online journals . Many general interest online magazines provide free access to all aspects of their online content, although some publishers have opted to require
279-402: A non-offending pedophile , titled: "I'm a pedophile, but not a monster." This caused controversy at the time, with some commentators accusing it of being "pro-pedophile" ( in the sense of being pro-child sexual abuse ) and Nickerson himself subject to a "backlash." This article, along with an accompanying video and a follow-up article, was deleted in early 2017. Some saw a connection between
310-477: A particular focus on the free and open-source software (FOSS) movement. According to the senior contributing writer for the American Journalism Review , Paul Farhi, Salon offers "provocative (if predictably liberal) political commentary and lots of sex." In 2008, Salon launched the interactive initiative Open Salon , a social content site/blog network for its readers. Originally
341-624: A smart tabloid. If by tabloid what you mean is you're trying to reach a popular audience, trying to write topics that are viscerally important to a readership, whether it's the story about the mother in Houston who drowned her five children or the story on the missing intern in Washington, Chandra Levy . Salon.com , originally salon1999.com, was founded in 1995 by David Talbot , Gary Kamiya , Andrew Ross, Mignon Khargie, Scott Rosenberg , and Laura Miller . Regular contributors have included
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#1732802033890372-529: A subscription fee to access premium online article and/or multimedia content. Online magazines may generate revenue based on targeted search ads to website visitors, banner ads ( online display advertising ), affiliations to retail web sites, classified advertisements, product-purchase capabilities, advertiser directory links, or alternative informational/commercial purpose. Due to their low cost and initial non-mainstream targets, The original online magazines, e-zines and disk magazines (or diskmags), may be seen as
403-547: Is a more specialized term appropriately used for small magazines and newsletters distributed by any electronic method, for example, by email. Some social groups may use the terms cyberzine and hyperzine when referring to electronically distributed resources. Similarly, some online magazines may refer to themselves as "electronic magazines", "digital magazines", or "e-magazines" to reflect their readership demographics or to capture alternative terms and spellings in online searches. An online magazine shares some features with
434-415: Is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995. It publishes articles on U.S. politics , culture, and current events. Salon covers a variety of topics, including reviews and articles about books, films, and music; articles about "modern life", including friendships, human sexual behavior, and relationships; and reviews and articles about technology, with
465-421: Is still published as of April 2022. In February 2018, it was noted that Salon was preventing readers using ad blockers from seeing its content. Such users are offered a choice of disabling their blocker, or allowing Salon to run an in-browser script, using the user's resources, to mine Monero , a form of cryptocurrency. On June 23, 2021, Salon published an article with a headline falsely claiming that
496-594: The NASDAQ stock exchange on June 22 of that year. Subsequently, for the month of October 1999, Nielsen/NetRatings reported that Salon had over two million users. Salon Premium , a pay-to-view (online) content subscription was introduced on April 25, 2001. The service signed up 130,000 subscribers and staved off discontinuation of services. However, in November 2002, the company announced it had accumulated cash and non-cash losses of $ 80 million, and by February 2003 it
527-511: The UVa student who thought he could pull a prank in North Korea." After Warmbier's death, the article was removed. Andrew O'Hehir, the executive editor of Salon , said the article was a summary of the opinions of television comedian Larry Wilmore . In September 2015, Salon published an article written by Todd Nickerson, moderator of Virtuous Pedophiles , about his experiences with being
558-560: The Salon.com site offerings, ordered by advancing date: An article called "Deadly Immunity" written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on the Salon and simultaneously in the July 14, 2005 issue of Rolling Stone . The article focused on the 2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference and claimed that thimerosal-containing vaccines caused autism , as well as the conspiracy theory that government health agencies have "colluded with Big Pharma to hide
589-460: The article's talk page . This article about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer related media is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Online magazine One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to an online only magazine was the computer magazine Datamation . Some online magazines distributed through the World Wide Web call themselves webzines . An ezine (also spelled e- zine )
620-444: The company has been dependent upon repeated cash injections from board Chairman John Warnock and William Hambrecht , father of former Salon CEO Elizabeth Hambrecht. During the nine months ending on December 31, 2012, these cash contributions amounted to $ 3.4 million, compared to revenue in the same period of $ 2.7 million. In December 2016 and January 2017, the company was evicted from its New York offices at 132 West 31st Street,
651-511: The current owners and operators. Newsweek called Queerty "a leading site for gay issues" in 2010. Since 2012, the site bestows the Queerty Awards or "Queerties", in which their readers vote for the "best of LGBTQ Media and Culture" every March. This online magazine–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on
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#1732802033890682-513: The headline). In 2022, Salon executive editor Andrew O'Hehir said that Salon had recently concluded that the headline "conveyed a misleading impression of what the Florida law actually said, and did not live up to our editorial standards", and the headline was changed. Another Salon editor had initially defended the headline in 2021. DeSantis spokesperson Christina Pushaw said that her colleagues had tried unsuccessfully to get Salon to change
713-451: The political-opinion writers Amanda Marcotte , Scott Eric Kaufman, Heather Digby Parton and Sean Illing, critic Andrew O'Hehir and pop-culture columnist Mary Elizabeth Williams . David Talbot, founder and original editor-in-chief, also served several stints as CEO, most recently replacing Richard Gingras , who left to join Google as head of news products in July 2011. Joan Walsh was
744-527: The removal of the articles and the controversy surrounding Milo Yiannopoulos 's remarks on child sexual abuse that emerged in February 2017, although Salon Media Group CEO and Salon acting editor-in-chief Jordan Hoffner told New York magazine that they had been removed in January 2017 due to unspecified "new editorial policies." A third article by sex researcher Debra Soh defending Nickerson's side
775-462: The risks of thimerosal from the public." The article was retracted by Salon on January 16, 2011, in response to criticisms of the article as inaccurate. In March 2016, while American tourist Otto Warmbier was imprisoned in North Korea for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster there, the site posted an article about him headed: "This might be America's biggest idiot frat boy: Meet
806-581: The second editor-in-chief, serving in that role starting in 2005. She stepped down as editor-in-chief in November 2010 and was replaced by Kerry Lauerman . David Daley took over the editor-in-chief position in June 2013. Jordan Hoffner took over as CEO in May 2016, also serving as editor-in-chief. He resigned in May 2019, and was succeeded as editor-in-chief by Erin Keane. As of September 2021, Salon ' s CEO
837-522: The soup of San Francisco. There are a lot of odd fish we've plucked out of the bay here and it gives us some of that Left Coast, Weird Coast style." Time magazine named it one of the Best Web Sites of 1996. Salon purchased the virtual community The WELL in April 1999 (switching to its current URL, salon.com, at roughly that time), and made its initial public offering (IPO) of Salon.com on
868-428: The time, became the new chief executive. Elizabeth "Betsy" Hambrecht, then Salon 's chief financial officer , became the president. In July 2008, Salon launched Open Salon , a "social content site" and "curated blog network". It was nominated for a 2009 National Magazine Award in the category "best interactive feature." On March 9, 2015, Salon announced it would be closing Open Salon after six years of hosting
899-448: The web. Publishers of traditional print magazines and entrepreneurs with an eye to a potential readership in the millions started publishing online magazines. Salon.com , founded in July 1995 by David Talbot, was launched with considerable media exposure and today reports 5.8 million monthly unique visitors. In the 2000s, some webzines began appearing in a printed format to complement their online versions. Salon.com Salon
930-493: Was Chris Richmond , and its editor-in-chief was Erin Keane. Salon was created in the wake of the San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994 , by former San Francisco Examiner arts and features editor David Talbot who wished to explore the potential of Web . It launched as salonmag.com in November 1995. In its early days, readers noticed a specifically Northern California flavor. In 1996, Talbot agreed: "We swim in
961-546: Was having difficulty paying its rent and made an appeal for donations to keep the company running. On October 9, 2003, Michael O'Donnell, the chief executive and president of Salon Media Group, said he was leaving the company after seven years because it was "time for a change." When he left, Salon.com had accrued $ 83.6 million in losses since its inception, and its stock traded for 5¢ on the OTC Bulletin Board . David Talbot, Salon 's chairman and editor-in-chief at