Editor & Publisher To Publish January Issue; Survive?

by Colby Hall | 9:16 am, December 15th, 2009

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eandp Last week we reported the sad news that Editor & Publisher would be shutting down by the end of the year. We noted how the demise of the 125 year-old newspaper trade magazine was “a sign of how badly that industry has been hammered over the past few years, and further calls into question its future survival.” Well not so fast! Today E&P announced plans to publish their January issue, and teases in the headline: “Hope Remains?” Could this be a Christmas miracle?

The brief (and hopeful) online announcement reads as follows:

NEW YORK Due to overwhelming reader and advertiser demand, Editor & Publisher will publish its next issue, the January 2010 edition, as planned, Editor Greg Mitchell announced today.

It will be mailed to subscribers around January 4.

But it may still be the final issue of E&P, after 125 years.

In a surprise move, E&P’s parent, the Nielsen Co., revealed last Thursday that the magazine, along with sibling Kirkus Reviews, would be shut down at the end of this month, and many assumed no more issues would be printed.

But the outpouring of support for E&P from within and outside the newspaper industry, and from readers and advertisers alike, led to a decision by staffers to go forward with the January issue, and continuing to post stories at E&P Online until January 1 when, under current plans, the end of the line will arrive.

Meanwhile, a number of outside companies and individuals have expressed interest in possibly keeping E&P going, so stay tuned for updates. Thanks again for the thousands of messages of support and media/Web coverage.

Frank Capra couldn’t write a better ending. Let’s hope it comes true!

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Jim R

I really hope something works out, they’re a source I’ve used for years since it was apparent the corporate media was too cowed to do a proper job of informing the public.

The recent investigative report on the Acorn “coverage”, by two professors of journalism, exemplifies the kind of reporting Jefferson thought essential to our Democratic Republic.

“The pattern we discovered in the 2007-2008 coverage of ACORN resembled the formula that we observed in the flow of news coverage about the hidden camera story.

We found that conservative “opinion entrepreneurs” – primarily business and conservative groups and individuals – set the story in motion, the conservative media (e.g., Fox News, conservative talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and his many local counterparts, conservative magazines like the National Review, the Washington Times, the Washington Enquirer, and the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal) heighten the sense of urgency with an unwarranted amount of coverage, and the mainstream media report the same allegations with largely the same conservative frames, usually without investigating their veracity.

Despite ACORN’s diverse community organizing work in cities across the country, in 2007-2008, 55% of the stories about the organization dealt with voter fraud. (In the month before the election, during October 2008, the frame intensified; 76 percent of the ACORN stories focused on allegations of voter fraud.)”

Clearly this group Acorn has committed the cardinal sin of helping the poor and downtrodden and must be crushed at all costs.

I hope Editor & Publisher and their ilk aren’t shoved out by the ratings seeking media entertainment complex, who more than anything else has served to dumb down our national discourse and cover up for the powers that be.