• Making, Writing About Music Both Lead to Poverty

    In your woozy Wednesday media column: multiple music magazines die, the Boston Globe thinks it's too tough to kill, Harvard newsies can't find jobs, Surface magazine gets a cheaper office, and a report from the newspaper conspiracy meeting:

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    By Hamilton Nolan
    Jun 3, 2009 2:45 PM 3,266
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    Making, Writing About Music Both Lead to Poverty

    Nielsen is folding 35 year-old trade mag Radio & Records, which is, as a tipster says, "Not a shocker in the slightest, considering the state of both radio and records." Also folding: Nashville-based mag Performing Songwriter. Neither playing music nor writing music nor writing about either is lucrative any more. Condolences.

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