Fancy magazines are dying, and no amount of fancy magazine ads will save them! Journalism scientists can now confidently predict what will replace them: Magazine websites, which—scientifically speaking—suck.


Yes, it is a new survey! After combing through 665 survey responses from magazines, CJR discovered that magazine websites are, generally, low-standard journalism ghettos beset by poor editing, feeble standards, and virtually nonexistent fact checking. Which should surprise no one who has ever worked on a magazine website! Or read websites, in general.

So the future of magazines is clearly online, but they still pour the vast majority of their editorial resources into the print edition. Also, a quarter of all Americans are now getting their news on their cell phones, a medium that doesn't reward the sumptuous photography and lovingly curated journalism of print magazines so much as it rewards sexxxy nudes.

Brickbreaker is the future of journalism, huzzah!

[The New York Times is getting out in front of this trend by signing a deal to put content on 850 video screens in "coffee shops, casual eateries and airport newsstands." Which will give them more viewers than they got with that Discovery Channel deal, zing. Pic: Flickr]