Saturday, December 15, 2018

Magazines that printed their last issues in 2018

In the world of magazines, titles come and go.
Magazines that printed their final issues in 2018 include women’s titles Glamour and Seventeen, conservative journal The Weekly Standard and regional publications Montana Magazine and Vermont Life.
Publisher Conde Nast announced in November that it was ending regular print publication of Glamour. The monthly magazine began in 1939 and is moving to an online format. It might still publish occasional print issues centered on its annual Women of the Year award or topics like power and money. (See articles by the New York Times, HuffPost and Variety.)
Also in November, publisher Hearst announced that its young women’s magazine Seventeen was switching to a digital format. The magazine, which started in 1944, might still do “special stand-alone issues” in the future. (See articles by Folio and WWD.)
Clarity Media Group announced on Friday that it is shutting down The Weekly Standard, which launched in 1995. (See articles by Politico, Vox and CNN.)
Lee Enterprises announced in September that it was shutting down Montana Magazine, which was founded in 1970. (See articles by the Associated Press and Montana Standard.)
The state of Vermont announced in May that it was closing its Vermont Life quarterly magazine, which began in 1946. (See article by Burlington Free Press.)
The final covers for those magazines are included with this post.





1 comment:

Ripplin said...

You just reminded me of how the 2017 end of the year Best of What's New issue of Popular Science was the last physical copy. I've collected most of them from the initial 1988 issue on. I looked for the 2018 one and couldn't find it! Just a regular issue instead. I asked them on Twitter about it and they said it's online only now. Very disappointing. :(