Print trade journal Editor & Publisher to close after over 100 years

After 108 years of publication, NYC-based monthly trade journal Editor & Publisher is ceasing publication, it was announced today.

This afternoon, Editor & Publisher posted about the decision on their website:

Nielsen Business Media, of which E&P was a part, has forged a deal with e5 Global Media Holdings, LLC, a new company formed jointly by Pluribus Capital Management and Guggenheim Partners, for the sale of eight brands in the Media and Entertainment Group, including E&P sister magazines Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek, Backstage, Billboard, Film Journal International and The Hollywood Reporter. E&P was not included in this transaction.

In both the post linked above on the Editor & Publisher website and an AP story, staff remained upbeat that the publication may survive in some form. E&P editor Greg Mitchell tweeted a link to an interview he did with Columbia Journalism Review after news of the closure hit, and had this to say about the staff’s hope to salvage the publication:

We’re very savvy Web people despite being ink-stained wretches. There’s tremendous potential to make use of E&P and our staff, so I would just hope that [among the] people who are upset about losing this voice after 125 years, someone will step forward.

Editor & Publisher was founded in 1901, and 100 years later, 80.6% of copy editors and 90.6% of supervisors polled said they read the publication regularly or occasionally.