Deaf-Related Magazine and Newspaper
15 01 2007In 1997, my wife and I went to Deaf Expo in California for first time and we had good times. (Too bad they closed for good) This is where we discovered Deaf-related magazine / newspaper such as Deaf Life, Newswaves, Deaf Nation, Silent News and others.
We signed up and paid with them all except Deaf Life Magazine. I signed up with Deaf Life Magazine eventually.
Next few years, it was fine – always enjoyed reading them. Of course, it was all before Internet become popular during dot-com-boom in 2000-2001. (Best Guess) If I recall correctly, Newswaves and DeafNation were first to closed down. Silent News eventually closed down, too.
Deaf Life Magazine put themselves “On hold” for few years. I am pretty sure I paid two years subscription with them. I’ve only gotten like at least six magazines over times. Now, they are supposed to back in business starting this month. (January 2007) I am looking forward to it. Click here.
Past few years, we now have new faces in the market (sort of) like NADMag and SigNews – these are all we got right now in the deaf community. I noticed that both are starting to struggle every month/quarterly. I went ahead and contact their customer service last week. They acknowledged they are way behind.
- SigNews = did not get new since last edition in September 2006.
- NADMag = did not get new since last edition in Summer 2006.
Do you really think Internet such as DeafRead and another deaf-related news online impact hard-copy version these days? I wonder…
Anyway, I can’t wait to get new magazine so I can read it in my bathroom….
Reading the book/newspaper in the bathroom in last article sentence! That’s humor…
Also I’m wondering what happens to NAD’s magazine. I haven’t got any magazine for almost 12 mos. Broken? Too mcuh partying. Ugh.
It’s just too hard to meet the major expenses of printing and postage (not to mention rent, utilities, marketing, writer/photographer fees, etc.) from the meager income from subscriptions and advertising.
Too many people pass around the same paper or read the one at work instead of getting their own subscription, and not enough businesses are able or willing to advertise to the deaf audience.
The only way a print publication will succeed in the deaf community is if it’s subsidized by a well-off organization. Thus it’s surprising to hear that the CSD and NAD publications are having problems.
I started Deafweekly 2-1/2 years ago and it’s been really nice not having to pay thousands and thousands of dollars to the printer and post office. But I miss taking pictures and doing page layout …
Poor Grant! Reading in bathroom? that long? It is a good way to get hemorroids! This is what health magazine said few years ago.. sitting too long at toilet is a good way to get hemorroids.
=)
Grant, I highly reccomend The Thrifty Nickel for bathroom reading. My husband couldn’t live without it!
I have found that anything any deaf person can publish as a newspaper or a magazine is just a re-run of what we have already read online.
Respectfully, Lantana
You can print the articles off the Internet and then read them in the bathroom. That should not be of a problem.
For those who did not know, USA-L News has been around for 11 years. It started out as a private e-mail distribution, the went to eGroup which was bought by Yahoo. It is now with Deaf Times.
You can always be updated via e-mail and/or pager.
Some have said USA-L News put Deaf publications out of business. I disagree because technology has change the whole field of printed publications, not just for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. How many publications have gone out of business? The only publications that seem to survived are magazines.
Maybe you should find something more educational to read when you go to the bathroom.
I’m surprised to hear about SignNews and NADMag. I noticed there was no mention of NADMag on Jamie Berke’s list on about.com….that got me wondering…guess Jamie just forgot to mention it.
What about Deaf Rochester?
Are you getting credit with DeafLife? Will they send new issues for free until your two years is finally up?
And yet if you go to a Barnes & Noble store or other book/magazine store, it is mind-boggling to see the depth and variety of magazines available. My son is into skateboarding, which is a pretty narrow interest, and yet there are several skateboarding publications for him to choose from. Thus it is pretty sad that the deaf community, which numbers in the millions, is seemingly unable to sustain any print publications for any length of time. What’s the matter with us?
Deaf Rochester is more of local-based newsletter and I live in Texas. Haha…
NADMag is membership-based magazine and you only get it four times a year.
I’ve lost counting on Deaf Life Magazine credits. I trust they will take care of it. We will find out soon enough
[...] I mentioned about Deaf Life Magazine last week at my blog — speak of devil. I received Deaf Life Magazine postcard few days ago that magazine will resume this month. (January 2007) Basically it asks if I want to continue my subscription with magazine or ask for money refund. It also asks if I need to update mail address and/or email address. [...]