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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: Hawkinole on May 16, 2023, 12:14:19 AM
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Iowa has multiple magazines in print form. I subscribe to one of them, "Our Iowa." It features beautiful color photographs, quirky articles about Iowa. They recruit an Amish person to give a local Amish report (with photos - no faces).
A few years ago they gave away a car each year. They gave obscure hints. They hid the key to the car somewhere in a public area in Iowa; each month it wasn't found they would eliminate a few counties; if you found the key, you had a new car!
My parents in Arizona would try to find the "eyes" in the magazine each issue. If you found them you could get something, probably from an advertiser, for doing so. I subscribe, and keep it in my law office reception area, but I am still working. I do not have time to look for "eyes" in a magazine. It keeps retired people alert.
This magazine came out in the past 10-15 years. When it came out, they placed it in barbershops around the state, and that is how I found it.
Do you have state-wide slick color magazines devoted to topics in your state? Do you subscribe?
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I don't subscribe to any magazines any more, haven't for 10+ years, it's all on line for me. There is an "Atlanta" and an "Atlantan" magazine, we got the latter for a while because of the previous owners. I imagine there is one for the state, somewhere. I can recall being somewhat excited when a mag came in the mail, I probably got ten a month for a while, car mags, history mags, news mags ... the "Cincinnati" mag had the 25 Best Restaurants list annually which I watched when I was in the biz.
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I'm too cheap to pay a subscription
I've browsed a few of the "Iowa" mags in doctor's/dentist's offices
they seem well done
I read everything on-line and too cheap to pay subscriptions here. Even for Husker content
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There are probably 40-50 magazines I've noticed around here. We don't get any of them. Just the local paper.
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Front page | Georgia Magazine (https://www.georgiamagazine.org/)
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always astonished at how (even now) many publications are still supported on a local level like this.
on one hand, if businesses underwrite it with buying ads, it can sustain itself, just doesn't seem sustainable at the levels I observe.
granted, a lot of these are distributed at hotels and other places with a captive customer. The local city/state mags are always good with the 'clickbait' list type issues, (Best Doctors, Best Dentists, Top Restaurants) which turnout to be serve a society page type circulation. That's nice cashflow. I still am friendly with a few people in this space, and some of these remain fairly profitable.
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The editor of Our Iowa told me they have 90,000 subscribers, 76% in-state / 24% out-of-state with an estimated readership of 250,000.
I created this thread because there are several magazines devoted to Iowa and was curious whether that's a cultural thing endemic to Iowa. This is the home state of what was Meredith Publishing n/k/a DOTDASHMEREDITH, which publishes a large lineup of magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens, People, Midwest Living, Southern Living, and others. So I thought magazine publishing and subscribing could be part cultural to this region.
Meredith doesn't publish Our Iowa.
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We have a few, by far the most popular one is called "Texas Monthly" which is famous for posting its "Top 50 BBQ Restaurants in the State" every few years.
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Heres another one that I always liked
https://www.hillcountrypassport.com/magazine/
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Heres another one that I always liked
https://www.hillcountrypassport.com/magazine/
Yup.
And I also always liked Texas Parks & Wildlife. My brother in law was a photographer for them and I subscribed for at least 10-12 years. Lots of great camping destinations, off the beaten path, in there.
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Your magazine covers look somewhat similar, i.e. great views you personally may never see in your state. I want to know where you find this, in Iowa:
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I read the description of the photograph on p. 5, and it is about 60-miles from me, at Moine Creek in Fayette County. - I never heard of it.
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If I camped a lot, I think magazines that featured "hidden" camping areas would be great.
I used to take the kids camping mostly in KY state resort parks, they were pretty nice.
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That's an antique!
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Most states will send you some nice material for tourists if you ask, free. I just got a package from Utah, it is very well done. I have a magazine from Georgia as well on state parks, we like to take day trips out to them at times.
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Arizona has the very well done Arizona Highways, very much awarded for its scenic photography.
To quote from the Arizona Department of Transportation’s website: “Founded in 1925, Arizona Highways is dedicated to promoting travel to and through the state of Arizona. In addition to the world-renowned magazine known for spectacular landscape photography, Arizona Highways publishes travel guide books, calendars and other products to promote travel in Arizona. The magazine has subscribers in all 50 states and more than 100 countries.”
Arizona Highways also runs as a half-hour Sunday morning television newsmagazine (much in the lighter tone of CBS Sunday Morning w/ Jane Pauley) which is mostly how I followed. Also very well done, it broadcasts throughout the state. My favorite segments were the features on Arizona’s small towns and their residents, especially those scattered across the High Deserts of the Native American reservations. Cultivates a liking to your state.
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There are probably 40-50 magazines I've noticed around here. We don't get any of them. Just the local paper.
I subscribe to "Our Iowa" and a newspaper. I admire you for subscribing to a newspaper. Subscription to a newspaper displays a degree need for absorbing local intelligence, and information.
In my office clients seldom wait, unless I am on the phone. If someone waits 5 minutes to see me, it is about the maximum; they invariably pick up some reading material, and it is the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, a newspaper issued about 45 miles east of us. My other interesting publications such as "Our Iowa" are usually, ignored.
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I tried the AJC paper here electronically, they had a $1 a month deal. I cancelled it after two days. It was hard to cancel, I couldn't do it on line, had to call them up. The main reason I cancelled is they were filling my in box with all sorts of unwanted burfle.
I tried it for their sports secion, which I determined was mostly garbage anyway.