Ink-stained wretches, it’s not just you! The social media and Twitter elite fret about the future of journalism too — and wonder how it will survive the digital revolution. At SXSWi, there was no shortage of panels obsessively deconstructing this topic (and tweeting about it, natch).

Gourmet, as loyal readers are painfully aware, is no more, but much-beloved former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl is likely heading to a silver screen near you. According to the LA Times blog Daily Dish, Reichl’s third memoir Garlic and Sapphires may hit the screen sometime this year:

Former Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl guested on NPR’s Leonard Lopate show yesterday to talk about Gourmet‘s “shocking” demise, and the immediate aftermath (they had to be out of the office almost immediately). Also, how she was informed of the news and how she informed her staff.

Last month brought the news that struggling publisher Condé Nast would be closing a few of its titles altogether, including the much-loved Gourmet. To mark the end of the food mag’s life, associate art director Kevin DeMaria decided to document the dour proceedings, turning the closing into a memorial ceremony of sorts, which he dubbed The Last Days of Gourmet.

One supposes that at the end of the day someone should be benefiting from the shuttering-heard-round-the-food-world that was the folding of Gourmet earlier this month. Turns out that someone is the other (arguably less passionately loved) Condé foodie magazine Bon Appetit.

Ruth Reichl did a Q&A in this Sunday’s NYT Magazine and talked briefly about the loss of her magazine. Reichl revealed that Si Newhouse informed her “not on email” (snap!) about Gourmet‘s “stunning” demise, and also discussed why she feels The New Yorker will remain “untouched” forever.

The Monday morning Gourmet quarterbacking continues a week after Condé Nast decided to shutter the much-loved foodie mag along with three others. Now that the initial dust has settled from the first round and the much of the magazine world is waiting for the second shoe to drop, a number of folks are taking a peak behind the curtain at the wizard himself. It ain’t pretty.

After years of being the sacred cow of the magazine world, Condé Nast has, with the shuttering of Gourmet, in one fell swoop demonstrated actually nothing is sacred. The panic has apparently reached the op-ed pages of the New York Times, and it would seem a harsh reality is setting in: your years of experience, quality work, and credentials no longer matter.

Devoted fans of Gourmet were shocked and heartbroken over Monday’s announcement that Condé Nast would be shuttering the magazine effective immediately. They weren’t the only ones. A quick glance at Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl’s recent twitters drive home how much of a painful surprise the decision was to both her and her staff. At least the airport people were nice!

Shortly after Conde Nast announced this week’s closures Mediaite obtained a memo to the digital staff from Condé Nast Digital svp Drew Schutte suggesting the clock was ticking with regards to the websites of the shuttered magazines. Does this mean we should just expect more of the same on the Conde Nast Digital front? Meaning: not much.

Perhaps McKinsey should have hired Jon Stewart to do their Condé Nast evaluating! On the Daily Show last night Stewart expressed dismay over all the people who’d lost their jobs during this week’s Condé shuttering before proposing an alternate solution to closing the magazines altogether: marry them! It makes for some interesting results.

Yesterday we heard word that Condé Nast would be closing Gourmet magazine after 69 years of monthly food and wine coverage. Over nearly seven decades as one of the foremost titles in food, Gourmet perfected the art of the minimalist cover, favoring one simple drawing or photo — but always enough to make our mouths water. Check out the full slideshow inside.

Slate’s Jack Shafer comparing the fate of Conde Nast to that of that other overreaching, reality-ignoring American powerhouse, General Motors. Next up: Graydon Carter and Anna Wintour fly to Washington in their private jets to beg for a bailout!

Mere hours after Condé Nast announced that the venerable Gourmet was among the four titles to be shut down in the wake of their McKinsey evaluation, Curbed Media’s Eater blog, which recently went national, was already picking at the bones. Their cheeky proposal after the jump.

Today, when the the news hit that Condé Nast would be closing some titles from their bridal and parenting divisions, I feared for the future of pot roast. I’m clearly not the target demographic for Cookie magazine. But my wife has been a subscriber for most of its four years in existence, and I’ve come to appreciate it as the one “parenting” (read: “mommy”) magazine that I read regularly. And now it’s gone.

the shuttering of Gourmet remains to many the biggest shock of today’s Condé Nast layoffs. The fate of its equally well-known editor Ruth Reichl is unknown right now, though considering the company plans to keep both the publishing and television arm of Gourmet active chances are they will find a place for her. That said, what does Reichl’s precarious position say about the fate of Condé’s other high profile editors?

The wait is, sadly, over. After months of speculation, the painful results of McKinsey’s evaluation of Condé Nast are in and it’s not pretty. Condé has just announced that it plans to shutter Gourmet, Cookie, Modern Bride, and Elegant Bride. CEO Chuck Townsend’s full memo after the jump.

UPDATE: Drew Schutte: “Cookie.com and Gourmet.com sites will remain up at least through the end of the year.”

A friend waits in a doctor’s office and notices that everyone around him is tap-tap-tapping away at their iPhone and completely ignoring the table full of magazines. This scene is a nightmare for magazine editors who are ever-worried about remaining relevant and somehow carving out a digital presence for themselves online and increasingly in our pockets. But unfortunately for them iPhone apps do not relevance (nor money!) make. At least not yet.