Fast News for October 21, 2010

SPD MEDIA MIX is our regular list of publication design, digital, and media news and updates. Please send your links and news items to SPD at mail@spd.org and we'll add them to the Mix.

>> WSJ. ups its frequency to 9 issues in 2011 and 10 in 2012. Combined with the paper's lively new "Off Duty" section, this gives you more reason to dip into the Journal on weekends...

>> The New York Times dips into the Self redesign, starting with the issue on newsstands this week. Take a trip in the way-back machine with these stories about the Self redesign over 20 years ago and the fallout...

>> Did Jack Welch kill the much-anticipated Daily Newsbeast? Keith Kelly says he did...

>> Marie Claire's new Fashion A-Z iPad app is heralded for "thinking outside the magazine"; download it here...

>> Mediabistro reminds their readers about the SPD Speakeasy on October 27 with Time art director Arthur Hochstein, "Thinking Inside the (Red) Box"...