"Mr. Magazine" to launch Magazine Innovation Center

A new research institute called the Magazine Innovation Center is being launched by Professor Samir Husni. He will be relinquishing his role as chair of the journalism department at the University of Mississippi as of August 15. Husni, who has been dubbed "Mr Magazine", is an acknowledged expert on magazines.

I have decided to devote the remaining years of my professional career to study the medium which I cherish and trust that it still has a great future regardless of the doom and gloom that surrounds it in today’s marketplace. The Magazine Innovation Center will have one major goal in mind: Amplify the future and power of print and its place in the media realm of the 21st Century.