Editor and Publisher: After 108 Years, Editor and Publisher Shuts Down

[ABOVE: After 108 years, Editor & Publisher will be no more.]

EDITOR & PUBLISHER BEING SHUT DOWN

It’s another sign of the times.

Maybe a sign of the New York Times?

The AP is reporting that Editor & Publisher is shutting down after over a century of reporting on the print media.

FROM Editor & Publisher closing after 108 years:

NEW YORK — The Nielsen Co. is selling some of its most prominent trade journals — including The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard — and shutting down Editor & Publisher, which has chronicled the newspaper business for 108 years.

In all, Nielsen is selling eight titles to e5 Global Media LLC, a new company formed by private equity firm Pluribus Capital Management, and Guggenheim Partners, a financial services company. James Finkelstein, who founded Pluribus this year with George Green and Matthew Doull, will serve as e5′s chairman.

With the White House press pool now adding reporters from blogs and websites to fill the holes left by reporters from shuttered newspapers, this is not that surprising.

OUR TAKE: It’s another nail in the Mouthpiece Media’s coffin. Fewer MM outlets means there’s less editors and publishers to subscribe to news about a fading marketplace.

It’s just another indication that when businesses don’t serve their customers–in this case, hiding and twisting the news into shapes that their readers can no longer use–the customers will go elsewhere.

In this case, the Internet that MM types decry on almost a daily basis. Sure, readers on the Internet also have to filter their news, but most blogs and websites make no bones about where their point of view is coming from.

Unlike their counterparts in (Not-so) Big Media.

by Mondo Frazier
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Originally posted at FLASH Headline News: Editor and Publisher Shutting Down