We Were Print

Or, maybe the demise of Editor & Publisher wasn’t unexpected. Subscriptions to the publication weren’t cheap and I’m sure that it was an easy expense for papers and other subscribers to cut. Newspapers that aren’t hiring don’t need to run want ads, either.

Shawn Moynihan, who wrote the magazine’s obituary, said “the expressions of surprise and outpouring of strong support for E&P that has followed across the Web — Editor & Publisher has even hit No. 4 as a Twitter trending topic — raises the notion that the publication might yet continue in some form.”

Sounds like whistling past the graveyard to me.

You can read the whole, sad story here at E&P.

Poynter rehashes the press release here, but the comments are starting to get interesting.

I lost respect for the magazine when they started calling ink slingers ‘journos.” I never heard anybody who really wrote for a living use that term as a self description.