Podcast Interview with Anne Newkirk Niven
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Anne Newkirk Niven, Editor of Witches&Pagans Magazine |
Dave Grega of Pagan Centered Podcast. |
Here's the interview that Pagan Podcasting did with Witches&Pagans editor Anne Newkirk Niven.
Originally broadcast September 28, 2009.
Download Episode: "Pagan Centered Podcast – Episode 119 – Anne Newkirk-Niven." interviewed by Dave Grega of Pagan Centered Podcast.
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The following is a time index of this podcast:
| 00:00 | Welcome Anne Newkirk-Niven to the show |
| 00:10 | Thanks again for publishing Jason Pitzl-Waters’ article about Pagan New Media in the final issue of Pan Gaia |
| 00:54 | The combination of New Witch and Pan Gaia into Witches and Pagans is a great synergy |
| 01:32 | Pagans and Witches will be theme issues so it is a comprehensive journal of record |
| 01:54 | Depth of information and editorial quality of Wiches and Pagans is unparalleled |
| 02:46 | Anyone should be able to dive into Witches and Pagans without preconditions |
| 03:31 | Comprehensive coverage in the first issue on the Faery Culture |
| 04:28 | BBI is trying to make Witches and Pagans something that you will keep |
| 04:43 | Anne’s take on Jason’s article, trying to get him to talk about old media. |
| 05:10 | The benefits of print media in the Pagan community |
| 05:24 | Dave discusses why he stopped reading magazines years ago |
| 05:32 | Quality information is all available in one source with Witches and Pagans as opposed to being scattered around the internet. |
| 05:50 | What different media does for different people |
| 06:55 | Quality of what you find on the internet vs. Pagan print media |
| 08:07 | Mixing of art and written word in print media |
| 09:53 | Channeling the flood of information that is available |
| 10:15 | The tangibility of print media |
| 10:33 | Physical media tend to have more thought put into them, especially with regards to research. |
| 10:58 | Healthy trade of back issues indicates that the material being printed is not outdated despite being printed years ago. |
| 11:45 | Going beyond the surface fluff to sustain onself in the long-term |
| 12:20 | Getting beyond the 101 |
| 12:51 | Signal to noise ratio on the internet vs. a magazine |
| 13:07 | BBI screens their advertisers. |
| 14:27 | BBI is reader-centric |
| 15:06 | BBI media doesn’t let their magazines get overrun with ads |
| 15:59 | About Crone Magazine |
| 17:31 | What’s it like to do a podcast? |
| 18:59 | How did you get into the business of running several Pagan magazines? |
| 22:47 | BBI considering branching out beyond magazines |
| 23:02 | Monetizing new media |
| 23:58 | Why New Witch and Pan Gaia magazines were merged |
| 24:41 | Pan Gaia never found its audience |
| 25:15 | How New Witch came to be |
| 26:09 | The anti-witch sentiment in the Pagan community |
| 26:52 | People don’t want anything with the “W” word in their mailbox or on their coffee table |
| 27:36 | Are folks against the W word because of discrimination? |
| 28:14 | BBI Media has discrete packagaging but that wont stop nosey postal workers from opening the package. |
| 29:18 | Some people are just paranoid |
| 29:40 | Pagan magazines face the same issues as magazines for mercenaries |
| 30:27 | BBI does discrete packaging at no additional cost. |
| 30:54 | More folks overseas are subscribing to the magazines of BBI media |
| 31:24 | How the heck is PCP popular in the UK |
| 31:31 | BBI’s difficulties in entering the UK market |
| 33:42 | BBI is a family business ran in a daylight basement. |
| 34:57 | Mean people suck |
| 35:27 | Faery issue being the first issue causing complications with readership? |
| 35:40 | The faery issue was supposed to be a Pan Gaia issue |
| 35:58 | Anne rants on the misrepresentation of Faery |
| 38:09 | The UFO phenomenon and people seeing Fae, is it caused by the same thing? |
| 38:59 | Doing an issue of a magazine that took Fae seriously, exploring many facets such as Cherokee Fae |
| 39:55 | The Fae are not your dog. |
| 40:40 | Angels |
| 41:12 | Doing more spellwork when we’re younger |
| 41:55 | There are many interesting people that participate in the Pagan community |
| 42:33 | What makes someone Pagan? |
| 43:29 | How did I get here? |
| 43:57 | Anne tries being a public school teacher |
| 44:29 | BBI media is doing decently strong while so many other Pagan magazines are succumbing to the economy |
| 45:46 | Why many Pagan magazines fail |
| 47:42 | Getting all Pagan’d out |
| 48:36 | Relocation to Portland should help BBI’s magazines |
| 49:34 | There’s a lot of Pagans in Texas |
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