So. We all know.
Conde Nast closed Gourmet, Elegant Bride, Modern Bride, and Cookie this week. The amount of jobs lost is nearing 200, and every recent magazine journalism graduate felt the tug to go back to law school a little more severely than even during long distance phone calls to their parents. Print is washed up, everyone says. But lest we not forget that these magazines were chopped during the worst advertising downturn in recent history at a company that cares more about paying for Anna Wintour's town car than it does a sound business model for its other creative ventures and superb staffs whose names are only found on the masthead and not on a front row seat at fashion week. I'm just sayin'.
The bright spot out of all of this is that it allows these people the perfect excuse to start their own ventures in the fields in which they have become experts. For instance, editors of the late great Domino -
much moured by even the online design community - have started an online magazine called
Lonny. It's already getting a lot of lauded exposure. I can't wait to see what interesting ventures the ex-editors of the closed food, bridal, and parenting mags have up their sleeves. But maybe not something quite like Jon Stewart suggests.
2 comments:
I was so sad about Domino - I bought the book, but it's just not the same :(
what a good post
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