Unfortunately, print media suffered another loss this past week. Elle Accessories, a spin off of the popular Elle magazine, has temporarily halted publication. Anne Slowey, the editor of the magazine, shut down the production because she lost four key writers. Supposedly, Elle Accessories will return next fall.
To read more about what happened to Elle Accessories, check out this article on Fashion Week Daily Dispatch.
Of course I never like to hear that a printed publication is shut down, but I am especially sad to hear about this situation. I can accept that perhaps newspapers will eventually all be online; however I had more faith in magazines. I really thought that since magazines cater to a specific audience, i.e. fashion accessories, they will stay alive because they supply the pubic with information that generalized newspapers do not. On a more selfish level, I would be extremely upset to see magazines die out because next to a great book, they are my favorite things to read. Does this mean that all printed media, despite how specific, are on the downfall? Will every magazine we know of today eventually “bite the dust?”
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At some point, everything will bite the dust, including the planet we live on and the air we breathe. The asteroid Apophis is potentially headed near earth in 2029 and especially closer in 2036, so who cares about magazines! But seriously, I do not think in general that all magazines will bite the dust. For the entirety of our lives and many future ones, I believe magazines will be around. They differ from newspapers. They are unique and enjoyable. There will definitely be more that bite the dust, but I have faith they will still be around, at least for a very significant amount of time.
Unfortunately, magazines will not survive without the ad dollars to support it. Elle Accessories might be one to fail, but what holds for larger publications like Time Magazine? I thought you would find this article also very interesting. http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=132197. It is titled, "Will Print Survive the Next Five Years?" What do you think?
I once read this very prescient point by Hamilton Nolan on Gawker: "When employment is a meritocracy; when online and print writing are seamlessly integrated and equally respected; when young writers aren't arrogant and impatient, and old editors aren't out of touch. But magazines themselves aren't in real danger, as long as we need to read something while we poop."
Magazines are going to be fine. I hope.
I think I explained on the first day that we're all going to die in 2012 anyway. Check it out.
http://www.doomsdayguide.org/mayan.htm
There's even a countdown to Doomsday at the bottom. See? Magazines will be fine.
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