On December 10, Romenesko (the Poynter Online blog of Jim Romenesko) reported that Nielsen Business Media was closing Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews.
Reporting on the story on December 12, Dirk Smillie of Forbes.com said, “If your industry’s leading trade journal disappears, what does it say about your trade? Nothing good, obviously. As if it needed another reminder of how bad things have become, the newspaper industry got word that Editor & Publisher, the longtime bible of the business, will be shuttered.”
The imminent shuttering of the 125-year-old brand (with 108 years in publication) has prompted a lot of reminiscing, plenty of it on blogs, by people who remember it especially for the classified ads that listed journalism jobs. For the time being, E&P’s award-winning bloggers, editor-at-large Mark Fitzgerald and associate editor Jennifer Saba, will continue to blog as Fitz & Jen, but it appears that the blog’s last days will be this month–at least in its current home.
Listen to Fitz & Jen’s “Exit Interview” podcast about the closing of E&P.
Other commenters who give a sense of the loss include the following:
Steve Yelvington, who says, “For those of us struggling, underpaid, at the beginnings of our careers, it was a welcome glimpse into a bigger and more promising world.”
Will Bunch of Philly.com, who offers a long, ruminative post and declares that “it died like a supernova, with a great burst of energy.”
Senior editor Joe Stupp, who says in an interview with Dirk Smillie, “I think newspapers will endure, but in what form, I don’t know.”
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