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Blast Magazine is an online lifestyle and technology publication designed as a form of convergence journalism. Unique to Blast, the front page of Blastmagazine.com contains an actual magazine cover with photography or illustrations from the top monthly article or articles.
Blast Magazine launches a new issue on the 1st of each month but adds new content on a daily basis based on the news of the day, ongoing feature stories or fresh product, movie and video game reviews.
[edit] Categories
Blast Magazine covers fashion, sexuality, romance, movies, music, literature, art, technology, video games, computers and gadgets, among other topics.
It is divided into four categories: Features, Culture, Entertainment and Technology.
The Features section is made up of the main story or stories in a given monthly issue as well as long-form articles, photo essays, and letters to and from the editor.
The Culture section primarily focuses on fashion, but lately more and more political commentary has been seen. It also features food and drink, sex issues, book reviews and travel features.
Movie reviews, music coverage and television, sports, and celebrity news are found in the Entertainment section.
Finally, the Technology section is home to video game, computer hardware and gadget reviews, technology industry news, and retro video game features, including profiles and downloads of classic games.
Blast Magazine is a member of the Online News Association
All content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
[edit] Creation
Blast Magazine launched at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2007 after a 40-day live countdown on the site, urging subscribers to sign up for email updates.
The magazine was started by John Guilfoil and several other Northeastern University students as an experiment in convergence journalism. The original staff consisted of two writers, one web developer and a graphic artist. Only the two writers, Guilfoil and managing editor Elizabeth Raftery remain with the magazine. Guilfoil has since graduated from Northeastern University and works as a freelance journalist in addition to his time with the magazine. The regularly contributing staff has grown to about 25 while more than 70 writers contributed in the first year.
It is published and wholly owned by B Media Ventures, LLC of Connecticut.
Blast Magazine also hosts several blogs, most notably are the PSA -- Politics, Sports, Anything blog[1], and Made Hand Poker, a poker blog[2]
Other blogs: Most blogs are hosted on a new site, www.blastmagazineblogs.com Posterboy - http://blastmagazineblogs.com/posterboy The 3.0 Mindset - http://blastmagazineblogs.com/chad
[edit] Notable Contributors
John Guilfoil -- Editor-in-chief, also contributes regularly to The Boston Globe and The Boston Globe West Zone. Blogs on PRrag.com
Elizabeth Raftery -- Features Editor and managing editor, graduate of Emerson College, former correspondent for The Boston Globe and the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg, Penn.
Daniel Peleschuk -- Fashion Editor and lead copy editor, also contributes regularly to The Boston Globe
Bessie King -- Entertainment Editor and lead assignment editor, also contributed to the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass.
Aram Boghosian -- Photo Editor, regularly contributes to The Boston Globe as a news photographer.[3]
Ann Chin -- Freelance writer, business reporter for the San Diego Daily Transcript
Elle Bowman -- Fashion designer, owner of Noeslla.com jewelry designs
John Forrester -- Freelance writer, contributes regularly to The Boston Globe
[edit] Sources
Dan Kennedy, Media Nation. http://medianation.blogspot.com/2007/07/creative-commons-update.html Kennedy is a well-regarded journalist and professor of journalism at Northeastern University.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7564
http://blastmagazine.com/about
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