Newsmax magazine: The Power and the Glory

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The Perils of the Monthly News Cycle
Published 7/2/2008 by Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... Just about every time a celebrity dies young, some magazine ends up with a cover it would rather not have. This time around it's Newsmax, the Florida-based conservative magazine, which put a scowling Tim Russert on the front of its July issue to illustrate a story about pundits and the election. Editor in chief Cable Neuhaus says he'd just received the first bound copies of the issue when his executive editor announced that Russert had ...

Tim Russert Still Alive In Conservative Magazine [Tim Russert]
Published 7/2/2008 by Michael Weiss at Gawker
... as the primus inter pares of electoral opinion-makers, Newsmax assures its readers that it had no choice but to run with the graphic as is because the book had already shipped by the time of the "Meet the Press" anchor's passing. Though that doesn't mean he can't still be a good posthumous marketing tool: "In this Newsmax Special Report, 'The Power and the Glory,' we reveal the media talking heads — people like Russert — who are exerting tremendous influence this election year. Nobody exemplified this media power better than Russert." Fortunately, the press release ran ...

Tim Russert, Another Posthumous Cover Star [Tim Russert]
Published 7/2/2008 by Michael Weiss at Gawker
... as the primus inter pares of electoral opinion-makers, Newsmax assures its readers that it had no choice but to run with the graphic as is because the book had already shipped by the time of the "Meet the Press" anchor's passing. Such are the pitfalls of old media publishing cycles. Though it doesn't mean he can't still be a good posthumous marketing tool: "In this Newsmax Special Report, 'The Power and the Glory,' we reveal the media talking heads — people like Russert — who are exerting tremendous influence this election year. Nobody exemplified this media power better ...