From E&P Online:Editor & Publisher will shut its doors this afternoon after more than 125 years in operation as "the bible of the newspaper industry" and one of America's oldest magazines. Staffers are vacating the offices in New York City, but we still hope to be back.
We shipped our January issue on Monday and it will be mailed to subscribers next week. This Web site and our two blogs will remain alive but we will not be updating them after today. Office phone and email service will be suspended but staffers--a vast majority have worked here from 10 to 25 years--can be reached at the addresses below.
Several possible buyers have stepped forward but any firm agreement, we're told, is at least two weeks away. There appears to be a fairly good chance that Editor & Publisher will resume but we cannot say when or in precisely what form.
To check for updates, find out what staffers are up to, and keep up with fresh news and commentary that some of us will continue to produce-- in what we hope is merely an "interim" -- go to a new, possibly temporary, blog, "E&P In Exile." Leave a message there if you wish.
As many know, we got our surprising closing notice from The Nielsen Co. on December 10, which was met by outrage, thousands of supportive messages and even an unlikely place on the Twitter trending list.
Staffers decided to stay on to finish the January issue and keep our Web site going until the end of the year in hopes of encouraging outside help and bids for a takeover.
Below you will find all of our home emails. Stay tuned, check out the new blog, and thanks again for your backing and kind words. Speaking for the entire staff, it's been an honor, a challenge and a pleasure, to serve you. UPDATE: AOL has a major story on E&P today.
Home emails:
Greg Mitchell (editor): Epic1934@aol.com
Charles McKeown (publisher): svea123@computer.net
Shawn Moynihan (managing ed/online ed): smoynihan224@yahoo.com
Jim Rosenberg (senior ed.): alanstilli@yahoo.com
Joe Strupp (senior ed.): JoeStrupp@aol.com
Jennifer Saba (senior ed.): jensaba@gmail.com
Mark Fitzgerald (editor-at-large): fitzbeat@yahoo.com
Reiko Matsuo (art/design director): reikomatsuo@comcast.net
Betsy Maloney (assoc. advertising director): maloney.betsy1@gmail.com
Just testing how comments working. Thanks for visiting. -- GM
ReplyDeleteGlad to see this temporary site.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping that all of you are back soon at E&P, and that this hiatus will be temporary.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Dean Graber
Journalism in the Americas
Austin, Texas
As a one-time E&P contributor who grew up reading the magazine, and even getting a job through its classifieds long ago, wish you all the best, whether that's having a hand in restarting the operation -- print and/or online -- or in other future pursuits.
ReplyDeleteJim Gold
Yay! This blog allows comments! Already a vast improvement over the E&P site.
ReplyDeleteGood luck, folks.
- Amy Gahran
I hope everything comes together for a continuation of E&P. Throughout my career it has been a fantastic resource and I will miss it.
ReplyDeleteE&P was very valuable and useful to me as I started my own newspaper and your work helped us grow to 8 local papers (www.impactnews.com). I hope all turns out well for you and want to let you know I appreciate your work a great deal.
ReplyDeleteJohn P Garrett
Community Impact Newspapers
Pflugerville, TX
Thanks for the good words and, yes, "ironic" that finally we are on a site that allows comments -- and video. Quite a switch. We lobbied for it on our site...for five years. -- Greg Mitchell
ReplyDeleteGreg, here's to a perfect 2010 and a new life for E&P.
ReplyDeletePatricia Sierra
So glad to see this resurrection. If you need any help in anything, give a holler. I look forward to finding the whole E & P staff lands in a permanent home. For now, this is pretty nice digs.
ReplyDeleteWhy did E&P go under? Because two of its senior staffers still have aol email addresses.
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