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JPG Magazine is the photography magazine made by you! Its a showcase of brave new photography created from the best work submitted to jpgmag.com, published quarterly by 8020 Media, Inc.
Overview
Location
United States
Employees
11-50
Founded date
2006
Mentions in press and media 12
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| Mar 31, 2010 | If Amateur Photographers Are As Good As Professionals, Then We Can All Be Professional Photographers | Only a few decades ago, photography was dominated by film cameras, where each and every photograph you took cost money and time to develop. To accumulate 10,000 hours of shooting experience under one’s belt was prohibitively expensive, so o... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Pictory: Get Your Photo Gems Discovered | When the former editor-in-chief of JPG Magazine launches a photography startup, budding photojournalists should take note. Laura Brunow Miner just launched Pictory, a site where netizens are offered a chance to contribute their best work to... |
| Feb 26, 2009 | JPG Magazine Has Been Acquired, Lives Anew | JPG Magazine, the innovative photography magazine that was composed of user-submitted photographs and shut down last month, has been revived. The magazine’s assets have been acquired by a group of investors who will also continue to employ ... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | Flickr, Smugmug And Others Bidding To Buy JPG Magazine | JPG magazine, which was declared dead less than a week ago, is most definitely for sale and it looks like a transaction will close shortly. Twenty or so potential buyers have expressed interest, say our sources, including Flickr (a natural ... |
| Jan 3, 2009 | Don't Count JPG Magazine Out Just Yet, Sale May Close Next Week | When 8020 Media, the publisher of JPG Magazine, announced its shutdown on January 1, CEO Mitchell Fox told friends via email that they just couldn’t turn the corner on revenue in the down economy, despite being close to profitable before th... |
| Jan 2, 2009 | Halsey Minor's 8020 mag shutters its doors | Fresh signs of turmoil hitting Internet sites in 2009 User-generated magazine publisher and Internet site, 8020 Media was a promising venture backed by Halsey Minor, founder of CNet Networks. Launched in 2006, it had a seemingly good commun... |
| Jan 2, 2009 | JPG Magazine Folds, And With It A Radical Idea In Publishing | It’s not a good time to be a print magazine right now. Even a crowdsourced magazine with a stripped-down staff that relies on the contributions of its more talented readers. JPG Magazine and its parent company 8020 Media is shutting down af... |
| Dec 19, 2007 | Win a Samsung G800 5-megapixel cameraphone | Our close personal friends at JPG Magazine are holding a photo contest for aspiring shooters. All you have to do is upload a few cool photos by December 31st and we’ll help them pick a winners from the pool. This is a great opportunity to s... |
| Dec 19, 2007 | Win a Samsung G800 mobile with TechCrunch and JPG Magazine | JPG Magazine is a community-created photography magazine, and one of the themes that will be published in issue 15 is called “Surroundings – Places that mean the most to you”, sponsored by the Samsung G800 mobile. If you submit your photos ... |
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FAQ about JPG
When was JPG founded?
JPG was founded in 2006.
What has the press written about JPG?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning JPG, among them “If Amateur Photographers Are As Good As Professionals, Then We Can All Be Professional Photographers” (Mar 31, 2010) and “Pictory: Get Your Photo Gems Discovered” (Dec 3, 2009).
Is JPG still active?
JPG is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 16, 2015.