Editor & Publisher Closing After 108 Years

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Editor & Publisher Closing After 108 Years

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 10, 2009
Filed at 12:14 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- The journalism trade journal Editor & Publisher is shutting down after 108 years of publication.

Editor & Publisher is being closed as its parent company, the Nielsen Co., sells several of its other business publications such as The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/10/business/AP-US-Editor-Publisher-Closing.html?_r=1

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General Discussion thread here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7195716

[sharp_stick]

1. At this rate it won't be long

before we're getting all of our "news" from Newscorp, buying all of our medicine from Pfizer and getting all of our casual wear from Nike.

This consolidation and closing has to end sometime doesn't it?

[villager]

7. Rollerball -- the original one -- had it all figured out..

Alas.

[Kolesar]

2. One of the few publications that criticized the *43 government

Will be missed

[marasinghe]

11. what you said +1. (n/t)

[EFerrari]

3. Greg used part of a letter I wrote where

I said we canceled our two papers over the non-coverage of Ohio. Hope E&P comes back in some other incarnation. :(

[ixion]

4. Very, very sad, and the end of an era...

they were one of the few trades who continued to practice true investigative journalism. That particular trade has now been almost completely replaced by infotainment.

:(

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

Just awful :(

[rocktivity]

6. The should do what I did when the publication I worked for folded

Get their act together and take it online. A bunch of unemployed and disgruntled New Jersey reporters pooled their resources and did exactly that.


rocktivity

[NashVegas]

9. I Wonder If They're Making Enough Money

To support a newsroom and copy editors, full time?

[Blue_Tires]

8. r.i.p.

[NashVegas]

10. I Love the Internet

But I could do okay without it.

When arrogant protocol, database, and programming engineers in their $60k->$120k jobs complain about H1B visas, this is what I think about - all the people who were happy to make $40k or less in jobs they were passionate about getting the wrong end of the stick from cube rats who want information to be "free." Do these tools really think they'll still be needed after they make half of the rest of the world - seemingly - redundant?

[mrbarber]

12. The most powerful learning tool since the printing press..

and you could "do okay without it"?

[NashVegas]

14. Hacking Isn't Learning

It's just the means to an end. What was going to "level the playing field" is instead putting surface knowledge into the hands of people with more assets and social & self-promotional skills than intellectual curiosity and drive to excel.

[boppers]

13. Buggywhip & Hay Feed Closing After 108 Years

Worship of print is dead, as is print.

*Especially* snobby print.

[laylah]

15. I cannot believe there isn't

more concern and sadness about this. This publication was a mainstay of my information gathering. I am devastated! :cry: