Pagan Centered Podcast – Episode 119 – Anne Newkirk-Niven

2009
09.28

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2:42 Welcome Anne Newkirk-Niven to the show
2:52 Thanks again for publishing Jason Pitzl-Waters’ article about Pagan New Media in the final issue of Pan Gaia
3:36 The combination of New Witch and Pan Gaia into Witches and Pagans is a great synergy
4:14 Pagans and Witches will be theme issues so it is a comprehensive journal of record
4:36 Depth of information and editorial quality of Wiches and Pagans is unparalleled
5:28 Anyone should be able to dive into Witches and Pagans without preconditions
6:13 Comprehensive coverage in the first issue on the Faery Culture
7:10 BBI is trying to make Witches and Pagans something that you will keep
7:25 Anne’s take on Jason’s article, trying to get him to talk about old media.
7:52 The benefits of print media in the Pagan community
8:06 Dave discusses why he stopped reading magazines years ago
8:14 Quality information is all available in one source with Witches and Pagans as opposed to being scattered around the internet.
8:32 What different media does for different people
9:37 Quality of what you find on the internet vs. Pagan print media
10:49 Mixing of art and written word in print media
12:35 Channeling the flood of information that is available
12:57 The tangibility of print media
13:15 Physical media tend to have more thought put into them, especially with regards to research.
13:40 Healthy trade of back issues indicates that the material being printed is not outdated despite being printed years ago.
14:27 Going beyond the surface fluff to sustain onself in the long-term
15:02 Getting beyond the 101
15:33 Signal to noise ratio on the internet vs. a magazine
15:49 BBI screens their advertisers.
17:09 BBI is reader-centric
17:48 BBI media doesn’t let their magazines get overrun with ads
18:41 About Crone Magazine
20:13 What’s it like to do a podcast?
21:41 How did you get into the business of running several Pagan magazines?
25:29 BBI considering branching out beyond magazines
25:44 Monetizing new media
26:40 Why New Witch and Pan Gaia magazines were merged
27:23 Pan Gaia never found its audience
27:57 How New Witch came to be
28:51 The anti-witch sentiment in the Pagan community
29:34 People don’t want anything with the “W” word in their mailbox or on their coffee table
30:18 Are folks against the W word because of discrimination?
30:56 BBI Media has discrete packagaging but that wont stop nosey postal workers from opening the package.
31:60 Some people are just paranoid
32:22 Pagan magazines face the same issues as magazines for mercenaries
33:09 BBI does discrete packaging at no additional cost.
33:36 More folks overseas are subscribing to the magazines of BBI media
34:06 How the heck is PCP popular in the UK
34:13 BBI’s difficulties in entering the UK market
36:24 BBI is a family business ran in a daylight basement.
37:39 Mean people suck
38:09 Faery issue being the first issue causing complications with readership?
38:22 The faery issue was supposed to be a Pan Gaia issue
38:40 Anne rants on the misrepresentation of Faery
40:51 The UFO phenomenon and people seeing Fae, is it caused by the same thing?
41:41 Doing an issue of a magazine that took Fae seriously, exploring many facets such as Cherokee Fae
42:37 The Fae are not your dog.
43:22 Angels
43:54 Doing more spellwork when we’re younger
44:37 There are many interesting people that participate in the Pagan community
45:15 What makes someone Pagan?
46:11 How did I get here?
46:39 Anne tries being a public school teacher
47:11 BBI media is doing decently strong while so many other Pagan magazines are succumbing to the economy
48:28 Why many Pagan magazines fail
50:24 Getting all Pagan’d out
51:18 Relocation to Portland should help BBI’s magazines
52:16 There’s a lot of Pagans in Texas