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Editor's Exit Dooms 'Golf for Women'
by Jeff Bercovici
Jul 07, 2008
Jul 07, 2008
This is everything you need to know about the print publishing environment circa mid-2008: It's easier to shut down a magazine with dozens of employees than to hire one new one.
Condé Nast Publications (the parent of Portfolio) said this afternoon that it's ceasing publication of Golf for Women, a 20-year-old, bimonthly title, which it has owned since 2001. "[W]e feel the magazine will not support our long term business objectives," said CEO Chuck Townsend by way of explanation.
But Condé's decision came only after Golf for Women's editor in chief, Susan Reed, notified her bosses that she was leaving to become editor in chief of O, The Oprah Magazine, a Hearst title ...
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