Categories: OLD Media Moves

Get your face on Wired's cover

Wired magazine is offering the opportunity for some of its subscribers to have their faces on the July cover, reports MediaWeek’s Lucia Moses.

She wrote, “As part of a collaboration with Xerox, one of its advertisers, Wired, starting March 23, will invite subscribers to go to the magazine’s Web site and upload a photo and customize the headlines and color palette. The first 5,000 to do so will receive a customized July issue, whose cover story is on the future of personalization.

“The gimmick is a way for Xerox to showcase its new digital production press and customization software, PersonalEffect, from Xerox’s newly acquired company, XMPie.

“‘Wired is always looking for ways to partner with advertisers and showcase innovative brands,’ said Drew Schutte, publishing director of Wired Media. ‘The mission of both the magazine and Wired.com is to be the first word in how technology is changing the world. This innovative program built for Xerox is exactly the kind of opportunity we can now offer.’

“Xerox will run custom ads on covers two and three for the 5,000 personalized issues in addition to running an ad on cover four.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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