Editor and Publisher - still hope?
Posted on December 31, 2009 by Mediabids
We are routing for Editor and Publisher.
From MIN Online:
Editor & Publisher editor Greg Mitchell said on HuffingtonPost.com yesterday that the 125-year-old E&P
was about to ship its last issue. “For the record, it is the January
2010 issue, so we made it into our 126th year, at least,” he wrote.
Recounting how his staff was informed of the closure earlier this
month, Mitchell called the notice from owner Nielsen Co.
“inexplicable.”
He said that thousands have written to him and Nielsen protesting the
decision to fold the legendary trade pub for journalists and
newspapers. The staff decided to stay on through this week to finish
the issue and to keep the Web site running, in the hopes of attracting
a buyer, investor or some kind of help in keeping the brand alive.
Mitchell says “there has been a lot of interest but no firm news to
report.” The office is scheduled to close for good on Thursday.
Along with E&P, another Nielsen publication with a long pedigree, Kirkus Reviews,
is not going gently into the night. That magazine’s staff has been
posting suggestive items on Twitter that hint at a possible rescue of
the book review brand. The editors posted a final note on the site
entitled “Goodbye for Now.” Kirkus Reviews began in 1933 as a
book review service from Virginia Kirkus, who had been the head of the
children’s book department at Harper & Bros. It, too, published its
last issue recently.
E&P and Kirkus were not part of Nielsen's multi-title sale to e5 Global Media earlier this month. Billboard, Hollywood Reporter and the Adweek/Brandweek/Mediaweek
books were among the titles packaged in that deal. Ironically, Nielsen
could not find buyers for two of its longest-lived and most-respected
trade brands.
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