Welcome!

The Magazine Diaries is, in the first instance, a newsletter all about making print magazines work in a digital world, how people do it, why they do it and the ideas you can steal to make your magazine business better. It’s been in a bit of a break, partly because I’ve been prioritising paid work but, also, the idea of SubStack monetising real-world Nazis, misogynistic a**holes and prediction-market sociopaths sucked the joy out of the whole endeavour. Basically.

So, long story short, I’m leaving Substack and going over to Beehiiv.

I might write more about why I’m moving at some point in the future. But for now, I’m just happy not to have Substack’s general enshitiffication itching my brain and to focus on creating a newsletter that helps people make print magazines work in this messed up digital-media landscape.

I’ve already moved the best bits of my Substack archive over to Beehiiv and if you head over there you can subscribe for when the newsletter gets going again in September.

Until then, why not have a look at where this all started, The Magazine Diaries 2014: 100 magazine professionals writing 100 words each about how they felt about making magazines for a living.

Slàinte Mhath

Peter