The Grub Street Journal: A magazine for people who make magazines. Brutally honest but relentlessly optimistic, The Grub Street Journal looks for answers to the biggest questions in modern magazine publishing. Challenging the industry to change where it needs to, they have some fun along the way too.

The pressing question for their first issue: What kind of idiots still make magazines?

From the team on Issue #1:

We’ll be talking to activists, entrepreneurs, community organisers and industry veterans about why they do what they do. What do they love about making magazines? What do they hate? What have they learned and what would they rather forget?

We also explore the enduring importance of street papers, take a look at how mags are represented in the movies and find out if magazine designers are just colouring-in monkeys (they're not).

Hear from an ASMR artist who uses copies of 1960s Good Housekeeping to give people tingles, get absolutely top-notch ad sales tips from the people who know how to to get it done, and discover how to have great ideas.

Magazine people in this issue:

• Mark Allen (Mark Allen Group)

• Kirstie Beaven (Sonshine Magazine)

• Edward Felsenthal (Time)

• Fiona Hayes (BBC, Vogue)

• Laura Kelly (The Big Issue)

• Chris Maillard (Decanter)

• Liz Moseley (Tortoise Media)

London, U.K.; 200mm x 291mm; 65 pages; April 2023; quarterly