Editor & Publisher, the much respected and leading journal of the newspaper business in the US, is closing after 125 years. While the publication announced its death on its website, the editor, according to a report in Wired, frist announced the move via Twitter. Analysts say, in hundreds of reports already online, that Editor & Publisher is a victim of the decline of US newspapers.
While some of the challenges faced by US newspapers are different to our Australian situation, many are the same if somewhat delayed being experienced here.
Alan Mutter provides an indication to the implications fo the closure of E&P at his blog:
With the pending shutdown of the authoritative trade magazine and the reduction in the last few years in the number of securities analysts covering publishing, there will be scant independent reporting and commentary on the troubled industry at a time it most needs objective and honest feedback.