Posted on 10/18/2010 12:39:51 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Just received e-mail from my former managing editor at Editor & Publisher (my exit was in January after 10 years) Shawn Moynihan:
"The editorial staff of Editor & Publisher has been eliminated by its new owners, Duncan McIntosh Co. inc. As such, I’m writing to let you know I am no longer E&P’s managing editor/online editor."
One of my old colleagues in the once-sturdy VNU/Nielsen magazine unit, Tony Case, was first with the news [1]. Top editor Mark Fitzgerald and tech editor Jim Rosenberg also were axed and the new editor works for owner Duncan McIntosh who took over in January—his other titles, based in Irving, Ca., are boating and fishing magazines. Richard Prince has a more full report here [2].
As he notes, the once-vital E&P site was only a "shadow" of its former self. Ads virtually disappeared. The magazine's top writer, Jennifer Saba, left months ago for Reuters and was never replaced.
McIntosh, when he took over the magazine, vowed (in a meeting with me) that his first order of business was a complete redesign of the magazine's once-popular and influential dinosaur of a Web site. The magazine had long advocated shifts to the Web, even holds an annual new media conference, but its site continued to lack video and comments, among other modern features. (It hadn't gotten a facelift since 2002). That never happened.
In fact, the site retreated from new offerings, giving up its podcast and its most popular blog (by a wide margin), The E&P Pub. Traffic was only a fraction of that at its high point a couple of years in the past, as McIntosh and Fitzgerald focused almost strictly on the business side of newspapers, not content and editorial debates over what they actually produce.
The Nielsen Co. had shuttered the magazine last December, but I soon received dozens of emails from journalism outlets, foundations or investors interested in quickly reviving the magazine. Nielsen then pursued several serious offers, ultimately choosing McIntosh—which raised questions right away, given his California base and the types of publications he produces, especially since there were other offers to choose from.
Ping!
Hmmm...
(1) The old staff had run the company into the ground.
(2) The company was purchased by new owners.
(3) The new owners cleaned house and fired the old staff that had run the company into the ground.
(4) The old staff was surprised by this?
They thought the media would rescue them. They really thought all those big media companies would each buy up a small part to keep them afloat. Or they’d find a sugar daddy or they would get a bailout or something.
When they shut down the most popular blog, it should have been a big clue. Of course when they stopped PRINTING it might have been a pretty big clue too
Yeah. The handwriting was on the wall when they scrapped the print edition at the end of last year. These dummies had over 9 months to find other employment. Well, now they can collect unemployment.
‘Editor & Publisher’ Fires Entire Editorial Staff
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So now it’s just ‘Publisher’?
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=192854
Read fired E&P editor’s letter to colleagues
http://www.tonyofallmedia.com/2010/10/editor-publisher-editor-fired-by-e-mail.html
E&P Magazine’s Top Editor FIRED By E-Mail?
http://mije.org/richardprince/editor-publisher-staff-fired
Editor & Publisher Staff Fired
Beat me to it!
More leftist MSM types out of work and they still can’t figure it out.
ROFLMAO
Hmmm...
(1) The old staff had run the company into the ground.
(2) The company was purchased by new owners.
(3) The new owners cleaned house and fired the old staff that had run the company into the ground.
(4) The old staff was surprised by this?
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