This is the first day in over 125 years that Editor & Publisher is not fully in operation. As many of you know, the magazine received a shutdown notice from The Nielsen Co. last month. But support for E&P was so wide and overwhelming, we published the January issue and drew a lot of interest from potential buyers. That interest continues but we had to vacate our offices last Thursday. AOL covered it here, and our farewell (for now) piece at E&P is here. But staffers will be maintaining daily contact with our audience via this new blog. And unlike at E&P, we're even allowed video and comments!You can read the first posts below, and also find our twitter feeds and, on the rail to the right, our home emails. We hope we won't be "Too Long in Exile," as Van Morrison put it, but please join us while we're here. -- Greg Mitchell
glad I found you and will be your avid follower in exile--you are a wecome addition to the brave new world of blogging:-)
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ReplyDeleteGreg, I think the world of you and E&P and wish you all the best. A thought about framing: why is this site called "in exile"? Perhaps this is where E&P really lives for now, and it's the Nielsen company that exiled itself from E&P's glorious legacy. Someday soon, hopefully, E&P can move to grander quarters. By why is this website not E&P in transition? IP issue?
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ReplyDeleteGood luck, gang. Yours' is a needed voice - hope we get to keep hearing it for a long, long time.
ReplyDeleteHang in there!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see you're here, and agree with Steve above. E&P was once my career "bible," and perhaps could be again. I strongly suggest you focus on professional journalism and where it's going - or might go - rather than playing "Nearer, My God, to Thee" on the deck. To a great extent, E&P in the past decade seemed to me to be fighting a holding action and shilling for the print machine.
ReplyDeleteMy advice: Focus on journalism, not the Goss Albatross. A lot of people will be watching.
My advice. Keep to print up to when it can be shown that the thousands of newspapers in North America can show a profit in a Web approach.
ReplyDeleteWhile most comments on "newspaper" site comes from journalists, they as a group still seem to be unable to grasp the principle of basic market economy: revenue must be greater than expense.