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Cast adrift

privatefraser wrote 1 day ago: Private Frazer missed this one last month, but Canals, Rivers and Boats magazine sank with all hands … more →

Tags: Closures, canals rivers and boats

Knocked out

privatefraser wrote 2 days ago: Ocean Media’s Streetfighters, the magazine on “the world’s most extreme performanc … more →

Tags: Closures, Streetfighters, Ocean Media

Zippy bungle1 comment

privatefraser wrote 3 days ago: When you boast that the launch issue of your new weekly has sold 6,000 copies, you really do have no … more →

Tags: Closures, Zip, Blue Publishing

Unhappy families

privatefraser wrote 1 week ago: There will be a bawlin’ and a greetin’ in Hammersmith if the news about Immediate Media … more →

Tags: Closures, immediate media, Junior, Practical Parenting

Eyes Down

privatefraser wrote 1 week ago: Perhaps you can go broke by underestimating the intelligence of the public after all, as FeaturesExe … more →

Tags: Closures, PEP Publishing, Full House

Written on the wind

privatefraser wrote 1 week ago: News from the literary world courtesy of Media Bistro, as Granta magazine loses not only its editor, … more →

Tags: Chair by the door, Granta

Hard Life

privatefraser wrote 2 weeks ago: Not even this old pessimist saw this one coming, but HRH Nicholas Coleridge has just announced the c … more →

Tags: Closures, digital only, Conde Nast, Easy Living

Clapped Out Old Bangers

privatefraser wrote 2 weeks ago: So the inevitable has happened at Autotrader with five of their titles -Autotrader, Top Marques (ged … more →

Tags: Closures, digital only, Autotrader, Car Magazines

Troubled Water

privatefraser wrote 3 weeks ago: After 87 years it looks like Bridge magazine have discarded their ink on paper edition and gone digi … more →

Tags: digital only, Bridge Magazine

Getting Less Cooler

privatefraser wrote 3 weeks ago: A chill wind blows along the corridors of Factory Media’s offices as the decision is taken to … more →

Tags: Chair by the door, reduced frequency, Cooler, factory media, Mpora

No More!2 comments

privatefraser wrote 1 month ago: The sun’s out, so it’s spring cleaning time at Bauer with a two-for-one offer on magazin … more →

Tags: Bauer, Closures, Magazines

Failed experiment

privatefraser wrote 1 month ago: “See a dinosaur come to life” was one of the cover lines on the launch issue of Bonnier … more →

Tags: Chair by the door, bonnier, Science Illustrated

First Round Exit

privatefraser wrote 2 months ago: Last July Ken Monkou (“an ex-Chelsea player of the year”) launched a glossy quarterly ma … more →

Tags: Closures, doomed launches, football life

Stall Velocity

privatefraser wrote 2 months ago: It looks like I picked the wrong week to give up snark, as FeaturesExec report that Key’s Clas … more →

Tags: Closures, Classic Aircraft, Key Publishing

Victory of the hayseeds: Meredith Corporation makes a play for Time, Inc.’s magazine titles.

Phillip Nones wrote 2 months ago: If the imminent acquisition of the magazine portfolio of Time, Inc. by publishing giant Meredith Cor … more →

Tags: Business, Publishing, nones, Inc., time, Meredith Corporation, Better Homes & Gardens, Edwin Meredith, Mergers

Pigeon Posted

privatefraser wrote 3 months ago: The Stool Pigeon, a free bi-monthly music paper has wrung its own neck, saying: running out 60,000 c … more →

Tags: Closures, stool pigeon

House Rules1 comment

privatefraser wrote 3 months ago: If any more indication was needed that next week’s ABC figures are going to be brutally bad. i … more →

Tags: PPA, ABC figures

New Year, Old Story

privatefraser wrote 3 months ago: The news that IPC are going to lay off 150, or 8%, of their staff as part of “organisational c … more →

Tags: Chair by the door, Corporate bollocks, IPC, Time Inc

Rock Off

privatefraser wrote 3 months ago: The latest print publication to go digital only is Artrocker magazine and, what would you know, this … more →

Tags: Chair by the door, digital only, Artrocker


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