Every day, Masthead scours the Web for the best, most relevent publishing-related stories and posts links to these pieces in the Mag News Around the Web section. Every Friday, we round-up these stories in our main news section. Feel free to post links to things you have found interesting or useful in the comments section.

This week, we bring you a wonderful New Yorker piece about parenting mags, a rebuttal to last week's Atlantic article  on The Economist, and a feature on the merits of indie alt-weeklies versus corporately owned ones.

1. Parents Magazine and the fuss about parenthood [The New Yorker]
2. Are independent alt-weeklies better than those that are corporately owned? [Ryerson Review of Journalism]
3. Eye Weekly mobilizes listings [Media in Canada]
4. The Economist is the exception that proves the rule [BuzzMachine]
5. U.S. Reader's Digest slashes frequency, circ [MediaDailyNews]
6. American Business Media cuts staff, looks to new 'strategic plan' [Folio:]
7. "This is the most exciting time to be in media and publishing that I can imagine" [Folio:]