Editor & Publisher: No More Paywall for E&P Online
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"This week, [Editor & Publisher] tore down its website paywall, allowing visitors to view more of the magazine's exclusive content."
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Folio: Editor & Publisher Sold, Will Live Again
"Two weeks after being shuttered by Nielsen Business Media, the nearly 130-year-old newspaper industry magazine was acquired Thursday by Irvine, California-based Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc. The February issue will be its first under new ownership."
Temple Talk: Rest in peace, E&P: Killed by an aggregator
John Temple: "It's easy to underestimate the power of aggregation. But the truth, in my view, is that Romenesko replaced Editor & Publisher long ago as the place where journalists turned to find out what was going on in their world. It's not limited by one medium or industry. It's timely. And it's deep. The magazine couldn't compete."
Steve Yelvington: The passing of Editor & Publisher
On E&P: "What was left dwindled to a monthly, I think. Despite the good work of people like Mark Fitzgerald and Jennifer Saba, I just quit reading it. The magazine no longer represented a welcome glimpse into a bigger and more promising world. We all are wired now. Distance and scarcity are abolished."
SteveOuting.com: Farewell, Editor & Publisher (We all knew this day would come)
Steve Outing: "A profound moment of disappointment — when I think my mind finally lost the last tiny shread of hope for the newspaper industry — was this summer, when during a reinveinting-news conference I had a few minutes for a private conversation with the CEO of one of the largest U.S. newspaper companies. He told me that his firm’s intention of putting up pay-walls at most of its newspaper websites was meant primarily as a strategy to drive more print revenues. He said he didn’t expect to earn much from the web side with the pay-wall strategy."
Mediabistro: E&P, America’s Oldest Newspaper Journal, Blogs
"Editor & Publisher, the stodgy journal with its eye ever fixed on the newspaper industry, will 'finally' enter the world of blogging." And I worried that PG was behind the curve...
La Pauline 2.0: The Root E&P’s “Blog-Like Comments”
Ex-E&P web editor Pauline Millard on E&P's new yoof-oriented column with "blog-like comments": "Traffic at E&P isn't going down because the newspaper industry is in a bind. Traffic is going down because their web site lives in a time warp, and someone in the pipeline is too cheap to redesign and upgrade it."