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    Metropolitan Home Folding

    In Memoriam, Vol. 3

    This Is Why Condé Nast Is Shedding Titles and Jobs

    No More Conde Nast Mag Deaths, For Now

    The Wrath of McKinsey: Conde Nast To Fold Gourmet, Three Others

    URB Suspends Print Edition

    Time Inc. Folds Style & Design

    Time Inc. Folds Southern Accents

    Hip Hop Is Dead. Magazine-Wise

    What to Expect When Your Boss Hires McKinsey
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    Image of RodetheTrolleywithStanwyck RodetheTrolleywithStanwyck
    11/09/09

    In reply to Metropolitan Home Folding
    See, the shelter blogs have to get their images somewhere. It can't all be photos of their vintage sock monkeys on their reproduction Scandinavian sideboards. (That's what she said.) So what happens now, that most of the shelter magazines are relics or are heading in that direction? #magazines
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    Image of gladys_kravitz gladys_kravitz
    11/09/09

    @RodetheTrolleywithStanwyck: Design Sponge has made a living off sock monkeys and faux Scandinavian sideboards. And Etsy-purchased pillows. She doesn't repost too much from the shelter mags.

    Is anyone liking Lonny? (www.lonnymag.com) They've reincarnated Domino and it looks great, I just wish I could have it in real old school paper magazine form. I guess all good porn is now on-line. #magazines
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    Image of RodetheTrolleywithStanwyck RodetheTrolleywithStanwyck
    11/09/09

    @gladys_kravitz: You're right, but often comes up for at least one or two posts a day. Same for AT. (And Grace @ Design Sponge got her start at H&G, I believe.)

    I am a bit biased--I'm a decor writer, and its tough to see the niche fall.

    Don't like Lonny...content is good, but hate the faux-mag format. #magazines
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    Image of gladys_kravitz gladys_kravitz
    11/09/09

    In reply to Metropolitan Home Folding
    I am literally sitting here with my mouth open. First Conde takes my Domino and now HFMUS pulls this on me? My home decorating porn stash is now empty. What happened to the rumor of shutting Elle Decor? please tell me the profile raising of Margaret Russell on HGTV didn't play into this. Met Home was by far the superior book, in my opinion. #magazines
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    Image of joeyjoey73 joeyjoey73
    11/09/09

    In reply to Metropolitan Home Folding
    This is sickening. There is just no crossover between Elle Decor and Met Home. Met Home is for lovers and appreciators of Modern Design and its aesthetic. Elle Decor is for a bunch of tasteless sorority girls that think its fun to decorate rooms in contrasting plaids and florals.

    I can't take much more of this. All my touchstone mags (Gourmet, Met Home, Cargo) are getting cut loose. Obviously media companies need to dumb it down and go lowest common denominator in order to preserve profit but pretty soon, all we'll be left with is pedestrian fare (Rachel Ray, Food Network Mag, etc) with little to no aspirational message. #magazines
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    11/09/09

    In reply to Metropolitan Home Folding
    This is the Blue Boy domino effect. #magazines
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    Image of manchops manchops
    11/09/09

    In reply to Metropolitan Home Folding
    In related news, Coffee Table manufacturers stock plummeted on Wall Street as investors absorbed the news that there was now nothing left to put on them. #magazines
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    11/09/09

    In reply to Metropolitan Home Folding
    So is the silver lining message of all of this is that online alternatives for similar news is thriving? Because lord knows luxury living is actually thriving; perhaps the media used to share news/info for stuff like this has just changed. #magazines
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    Image of Kimrod Kimrod
    11/09/09

    In reply to Metropolitan Home Folding
    Damn, Cottage Living disappeared, now Metropolitan Homes, if Architectural Digest folds I'll be in a tizzy.

    I wonder when the economy turns around if many of these folded magazines will be back or will they be gone forever? Anyone? #magazines
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    blix promoted this comment Kimrod was starred Kimrod was unstarred
    Image of blix blix
    11/09/09

    @Kimrod: We'll just have to soothe ourselves with the latest issue of Single-Wide Elegance. #magazines
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    Image of Kimrod Kimrod
    11/09/09

    @blix: Is that a dieting magazine?

    -giggles- #magazines
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    Image of blix blix
    11/09/09

    @Kimrod: It's a publication for people with slimmed-down expectations. #magazines
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/08/09

    In reply to In Memoriam, Vol. 3
    This is only part of the magazine holocaust. Don't forget the good people who work unglamourously and thanklessly at the B2B's. They also serve and they also suffer.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/09/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: But they bore more, for an audience who is paid by their corporate overlords to read the damn things.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/09/09

    @raincoaster: You could say as much about Fortune or Forbes. And I would point out that Gawker, for instance, gets a fair amount of news from the likes of Variety, Mediaweek, and Ad Age, so they aren't always as boring as you think they are. Surely you aren't saying that if B2B people are unemployed it's just fine because their audience isn't cool enough. Not everyone can or wants to write about fashion, media, or gossip, and not everyone wants to or needs to write about it. Let's have some respect for those who toil honestly in related fields, and those who through no fault of their own have no paycheck now.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/09/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: I meant wants to or needs to read about it.
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    Image of Lucia Toledo Lucia Toledo
    10/08/09

    In reply to In Memoriam, Vol. 3
    - RIP HX -
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/08/09

    In reply to In Memoriam, Vol. 3
    They should just rename Radar Zombie. It keeps coming back.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10/08/09

    @raincoaster: OH! I so wish it'd spring back from the dead for the (fourth? fifth? I lost count) time. That was one fine and unique book. Hilarious from cover to cover to boot. Maer Roshan = awesome. I'd work for him for free.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/09/09

    @snugbug: You may get your chance.
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    10/08/09

    In reply to In Memoriam, Vol. 3
    Somewhere the managing editor of "Magazine Closures Quarterly" is laughing and counting lots of money.
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    10/08/09

    In reply to In Memoriam, Vol. 3
    Not Trader! Please, take my New Yorker, just leave me my Trader Magazine! Whatever will I talk about at the next Fashion Meets Finance?
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    Image of FarleyPapus FarleyPapus
    10/08/09

    In reply to In Memoriam, Vol. 3
    I thought VIBE was back.
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    Image of Maura Johnston Maura Johnston
    10/08/09

    @FarleyPapus: "back" is a relative term. the web site is up and running again.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    10/08/09

    @FarleyPapus:
    The vibe is back. The VIBE however, is not.
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    Image of MsHunter MsHunter
    10/08/09

    In reply to In Memoriam, Vol. 3
    Time Magazine. Really?
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    Hamilton Nolan promoted this comment MsHunter was starred MsHunter was unstarred
    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    10/08/09

    @MsHunter: It's a Time spinoff mag.
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    Image of tunamelt tunamelt
    10/08/09

    @MsHunter: That threw me.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    10/08/09

    In reply to In Memoriam, Vol. 3
    Is that A.J. Daulerio on the cover of Mandate?
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