First Look: Huffington Post to Launch Weekly Longform Magazine

The Huffington Post is exploring beyond its free, ad-supported content model with the launch of a weekly longform tablet magazine Thursday.

Huffington magazine will debut exclusively on the iPad with both a free preview issue (pictured right) and a first issue, which costs $0.99. Future issues will be released on Fridays and can be purchased for $0.99 apiece, or through a $1.99-per-month subscription following a one-month free trial.

The issues, which I inspected at AOL's headquarters in Manhattan Tuesday, contain two to three longform features authored largely, proportionately speaking, by writers poached over the last year from The New York Times, including Peter Goodman and Lisa Bel… Continue reading...