Triple J mag closes with team reportedly redundant
ABC youth station Triple J’s sister magazine has closed its bi-monthly publication after News Limited’s custom publishing arm News Custom, shut its Melbourne office.
It will continue to publish the Triple J Annual.
A statement issued by Triple J said: “This gave us a chance to look at what we’re doing with the magazine, and we’ve decided to focus on the annual edition, rather than a bi-monthly magazine.”
Industry news site The Music reports that the move has led to redundancies of the magazine’s entire Melbourne team. Triple J did respond to Mumbrella’s request for comment on this but issued a statement saying: “We’re always evolving ways we reach our audience and we’re really excited about our next annual hitting the shelves.”
Print. Is. Dead.
No.its.not
Definitely is dead.
The good magazines out there (Monocle, Wallpaper, GQ UK) act like how a TV guide used to act for the TV. It should expose/direct new information to the reader, not just create a hard copy version of info already on the web.
I look forward to opening magazines that tell me where to go on the web for new things in the world.