Showing posts with label last issue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label last issue. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Long live print ... ?

Small circ magazines No Depression and Resonance are have announced they will fold under financial pressures.

It seems newspapers aren't the only ones feeling the pinch in the day of the Internet.

Ed Ward, Berlin Bites blogger, and magazine writer wrote last week about the two small magazines and, in part blames a restructuing of the second-class postage system approved last year:
"The new rates, though, were bizarre: the more magazines you shipped, the less each unit cost, and smaller-circulation magazines were burdened with unreasonably higher per-unit costs, instead of everyone paying the same rate. But that's what happens when you allow big business to write the laws."
Although I've never heard of these publications, I subscribe to a couple hardly known periodicals myself. And it doesn't look good for my seldom-discussed hope to one day start up a magazine of my own ...

Monday, February 25, 2008

Albuquerque Tribune signs off

The Albuquerque Tribune published it's last issue on Saturday.

E.W. Scripps Co. tried to sell the afternoon paper for 6 months after deciding the market for the paper was no longer there.

ABOUT THE ALBQUERQUE TRIB:
  • Circulation hit 9,600 in January, it had been 42,000 in 1988.
  • Worked under a JOA with the Albuquerque Journal
  • Won a Pulitzer in 1994 for "The Plutonium Experiment"
  • NewDesigner.com said "The Trib long had a fine reputation as a visual paper."

As for the last one, I had no idea what they looked like. So, I hunted down this recent front page on Wendi Wilkerson's News Page Designer portfolio: