Posts Tagged "Magazine closures"

After 51 years in print, Institutional Investor will scrap its paper edition and go digital-only after its April issue, the financial magazine announced this week

With 260,422 sales a month Glamour was the tenth biggest selling magazine in the UK as ranked by ABC. So news that its monthly edition is to close at the end of the year is a huge blow to the power of print magazine publishing. Glamour has fallen a long way since it burst on to the UK publishing scene in 2001, back in the days when publishing innovation was largely about changing the size of paper used

The Americas divison of the global B2B information firm, which has not been shy about its aggressive transition from trade publisher to “events-first” company, confirmed to Folio: today that Design News, MD+DI, Qmed, and Packaging Digest will cease print production following their respective December issues and enter 2017 as digital-only brands.

Raconteur, the free current affairs magazine, is closing nine months after launching due to a lack of advertising revenue. The last issue of the quarterly magazine, published by content agency Raconteur Media, will come out on Friday. Press Gazette was told that the magazine’s editor, Peter Guest, has been suspended after emailing staff about the closure.

Dennis Publishing is proposing to close the print edition of Coach Magazine, with the issue dated Wednesday 14th December being its last

Time Inc is closing the UK print edition of its InStyle magazine and taking the brand digital-only

The US division of Swedish magazine publisher Bonnier will be shuttering several travel magazine print editions, according to a report from Keith Kelly at the NY Post. The magazines effected are Islands, Destination Weddings & Honeymoons, and Caribbean Travel & Life, which was made into a supplement of Islands a while ago. All three will see their last print editions published by the end of the year, a new digital version of Islands is planned for 2017

Time Inc is set to close two cycling magazines in its UK portfolio of road cycling titles to focus attention on popular glossy Cycling Weekly, now its sole title covering the sport. Nine journalism jobs are understood to be at risk (including permanent and freelance roles). Monthly magazines Cycling Active and Cycle Sport are to go, despite a combined circulation of more than 31,500, with resources being directed into the weekly that is said to be “seeing the most demand from consumers” according to Time

Penthouse Magazine is closing the books on its print edition after more than 50 years on the newsstands. The once-scandalous men’s magazine will continue being distributed online, with all of its subscriptions migrating to PenthouseMagazine.com

Magazine has been credited with spreading the women’s liberation movement in Australia in the 1970s under founding editor Ita Buttrose

Bauer Media Group USA announced the transfer of M and Twist to digital-only formats, closing the print editions after the release of each magazine’s January/February 2016 issue.

Condé Nast will shutter the 33 year-old monthly magazine, which has a total circulation of about 560,000, at the end of the year, according to a Wednesday memo to staff from president Bob Sauerberg.

Bauer Media is shutting FHM and Zoo magazines in a dramatic illustration of the collapsing lads’ mag sector, which reached its zenith in the 1990s

Atlantic Media announced this afternoon that it will be shutting down National Journal magazine. Instead, the brand will expand on its digitally-oriented and faster-moving daily membership content

Even as events become more central revenue pillars for a lot of B2B brands, few publishers are reorganizing their media products around them. Informa is taking a big step in that direction though, merging Food Product Design into Natural Products Insider in an attempt to put forward a more unified voice to its audience, and one more closely aligned with its main trade show, SupplySide West

Trade magazines often have to adjust to their businesses to mirror the expansions and consolidations going on amongst readers and advertisers

Loaded magazine, one of the so-called “lads’ magazines” of the mid-1990s, is to close down this week, publisher Simian said

UBM India has shut down all of its technology publications and is probably looking to exit the media business, three senior executives who were with the company confirmed to MediaNama

Townsquare Media is bolstering its publishing portfolio with the acquisition of XXL, a hip hop title previously owned by Harris Publications

The move will see key features from TVeasy – including the magazine’s popular easy planning guides and Q&A interviews with the nation’s favourite TV stars – incorporated into What’s On TV, and for a period of time What’s On TV will carry a cover flash to highlight the merger to readers, says Time Inc