Peter Kafka

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Maxim Comes Back to the iPad

Maxim magazine, which launched an iPad app last fall, then took a break over the summer, is back. The new Maxim+ app has a new publishing system: Mag+. And it also has a new price — the app “wrapper” is free, but each edition will cost $5.99, two dollars more than what Maxim publisher Alpha Media charged for the old app.

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald