It’s not an easy time in the dead tree media business at the moment. Competition is fierce, not just from online alternatives but from other publishers as well. Iconic magazine BusinessWeek has laid off a dozen editorial and business staff members as it attempts to remain competitive. Talking Biz News has the full memo of the “restructure” here.
Other dead tree publications losing staff this year include the NY Times, who recently undertook some end of year staff downsizing, PC World Australia who shut their print editionand Business 2.0, the magazine that spawned an army of Web 2.0 related blog editors joined the deadpool in October.
Dead Tree Media, that’s clever!
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I prefer coal burning, nuclear alternatives to those dead tree pubs!
j/k
funny…….
For once I agree with Steve… but I wouldn’t count printed materials out yet as they have a far larger market in everything textbooks to novels. These publications have been hurting for a long time, each scraping by until they can either be acquired or successfully converted to their electronic cousins.
Jon
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Glad to see them going– BusinessWeek is not a particularly business-friendly magazine.
I really miss Business 2.0.
Best of luck to all!
Yeap, Businessweek need find rocky startup & do interview… There is nothing else to write in Business magazine. What else you want to write about?
Getting Mark Zuckerberg, Google Founders, Youtube Founders is hard. It cost money and time. I think BusinessWeek, NYT, WSJ, business publication should chase entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs like us, we are spiderman & hiding in closet.
Hey, hungry Journalists… Come get us if you dare!!!
Sad to hear this.
Maybe some of these folks who lost their jobs will be inspired to start new blogs that compete with TC
Pran
blogging is becoming the traditional out for print journos these days, Business 2.0 being a great example, so why not, hope we see some great new voices in the blogosphere, even those that compete with TC: the world is always richer for variety and choice.
i agree duncan…we should all get together and make cupcakes and work on our scrap books.
Duncan, are you referring to startupnews.org?
I’ve been a Businessweek subscriber for a long time. A couple of months back they did a complete makeover of the magazine. I knew they were in trouble then. I’ve noticed the thickness of the magazine has dropped recently also, due to less advertising. I don’t know if that is a function of the current state of the economy or their sales staff.
I don’t think the redesign was all that great and I guess others don’t as well.
However, I do like reading the magazine at off-line time and they do have some good stories. It’s a good summary for the week. As mentioned above, I’d like to see them cover start-up’s and entrepreneur’s more. And give up on those ever stupid top 200 or whatever MBA mills.
Duncan, are you trying to brand print media types as “dead tree media” to somehow separate it from “any dumbass blogger can have a website media?”
Yes and all the “deadpool” internet ventures you report on prove the inherent superiority of web businesses over dead tree media. Snark on.