RIP, Editor & Publisher magazine

Does American Journalism Review still have a print product? Even a few years ago they were producing outstanding features, but I know they were having financial troubles. Their report on USA Today's Jack Kelley's various fiascoes was especially memorable.

 

This is even bigger news than "Holy Shit!"

I, too, used to read it every month. I had a subscription for a while, and when I didn't, I always read it in the library or editor's copy or whatever of the paper I was looking for. I was a devoted reader of the classifieds, as well.

It's true that Romenesko has done a lot to take its place -- but it's also true that a lot of the news Romenesko linked to CAME from E&P. So he's losing that very good source of industry news. I wonder whether it's going to be an online entity, too, but from the announcement, it certainly doesn't sound like it.

Plus, what about the yearbook with all the paper listings and addresses and things. I'd have to think those are going away, too.

Sad news to me, as sad as any newspaper cutback or closing.

 

Yes, we get it here in the newsroom.

 

Same thing happened to ``Blacksmith & Buggy Whip,'' a long-ago monthly. ;D

 

I found several jobs in E&P early in my career. But it's true, Romanesko, jjobs.com and this site have taken over many of those functions.


Nice to see that the announcement is chock-full of the usual sharkspeak one finds in announcements that alas, more of our peers are headed to the unemployment line: "wish them well in their future endeavors," "continue to assess the strategic fit," "strengthen investment in our core businesses."

All code for the fact that another round goes to the greedy minions ruining our once-proud business.

 

I hear "Today's Paste-Up" may be next...

 

That's low.

It's accurate. But it's low.

 

If they fuck with Betamax Biweekly, I am SO going to rage

 

This Week In Exacto is in deep shit.

 

The Pica Pole Pin-Up Calendar is going strong, at least.

...

wait, what

 

Big vote of no-confidence in the future of reading, this.