Saturday, December 14, 2019

Magazines that ended their runs in 2019

This year saw the end of several notable print magazines as advertising spending continues to shift to digital media.
Family Circle, the monthly home magazine for women that launched in 1932, closed after its December issue published. (See articles by CNN Business, New York Post and Folio.)
Brides magazine ended its print run after 85 years with its August-September issue. (See articles by Fox Business, Variety and Adweek.)
In May, the owners of Ebony suspended the print edition of the magazine, with the Spring 2019 issue the last to be published. The magazine, which focused on the African-American community, ended after 74 years. (See articles by the New York Post and the Atlanta Voice.)
Satirical humor magazine Mad ended its regular publication of original material in the fall after a 67-year run. It will reprint archive content for future issues and do once-annual, end-of-year special editions of new content. (See articles by the New York Times, Daily Mail, CNN and Rolling Stone.)
Personal-finance magazine Money finished its 47-year print run with its June-July issue. (See article by New York Post.)
National Geographic Traveler magazine stopped publishing its U.S. edition with the December-January issue. Content from the 35-year-old bimonthly publication will be folded into the flagship National Geographic magazine. (See article by MediaPost.)
TEN Publishing announced earlier this month that is shuttering 19 of its 22 automotive magazines by the end of the year. That leaves MotorTrend, Hot Rod and Four Wheeler as the only three titles that will continue to be published in print in 2020. Titles going out of print include Automobile, Lowrider, Truck Trend and Vette. (See article by Folio.)
Governing, a national monthly magazine focused on U.S. state and local governments, shut down after its September issue. It started in 1987. (See article by the Hill.)
ESPN The Magazine ceased publishing after its annual Body Issue in September. The sports journal had been on newsstands since 1998. (See articles by the Washington Post, Variety, New York Post, USA Today and ESPN.)
Online tech news publisher CNET shut down its namesake print magazine with its summer issue. CNET Magazine launched in late 2014. (See articles by Business Insider and Tech Investor News.)










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