Cricinfo launch monthly e-magazine

[The Speaker]

It's called The Cricket Monthly.

But why a separate magazine when ESPNcricinfo has been an all-encompassing purveyor of all things cricket?

Features form a distinct component of our website, but ESPNcricinfo's primary task has been to keep pace with the day-to-day game. Being cricket's conscientious chronicler and its global voice is a job that we take seriously, and the nature of this task keeps us engaged with the immediate: in zooming in on match play or unfolding news stories to give you a ringside view and provide instant perspective. The hustle and thrust of a newsgathering, opinion-leading operation isn't compatible with the nature of a monthly, which needs time and space to breathe and flow.

In contrast to the site's topicality, the Cricket Monthly will aim at timelessness. It will run no match reports, news analyses or columns on the month's big stories. Instead it will zoom out to provide a panoramic view of cricket and its people. Profiles will seek to find the characters behind the PR-shaped images; interviews will be discursive; and every article will be allowed to grow to its natural length. Above all, it will be a showcase for fine writing and original ideas. And in doing all this, it will be the perfect complement to ESPNcricinfo.

http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/761919/dive-in

 

[Hellgood]

Considering subscribing after reading the free trial. Some really good articles there.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Should be quite good until it inevitably turns into an India-fest.

 

[Hellgood]

Chip on your shoulder?

I've never had a problem with cricinfo other than the comments section (which is a cesspit on any website). I think cricinfo does a very good job when it comes to variation - look at the homepage right now, what there is about India other than the regular articles that accompany a current series?