It’s a tumultuous time in the media industry, and this year saw multiple publications change ownership and some—including, most recently, conservative magazine The Weekly Standard—shutter operations entirely.
So it perhaps came as no surprise when a number of brands across three leading magazine publishers announced they would be more or less eliminating their print products.
The decisions raise many questions for the brands going into the new year, including how often they actually will print a magazine (and if readers will buy), whether they can translate print ad dollars to their other offerings and what the staff behind the brands look like.
