Editor & Publisher – was shuttered in December by its owner, Nielsen Business Media – has been sold and will continue to publish, according to a report by Folio: magazine. E&P is more than 100 years old, and has been the leading trade publication of the newspaper industry for most, if not all, of its history. Its demise was a blow to the gut to journalists everywhere, who for the last few years have watched the apparent meltdown of their industry’s fundamental business model.
The new owner is Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc., based in Irvine, CA – a white knight that rides in, not on a horse but on a powerboat. Duncan McIntosh is a consumer marine media company whose properties include Sea Magazine, The Log newspaper and, most notably, Boating World.
There’s no deeper meaning to this. It’s just nice to write about a company that sees the value in a storied brand, tradition and a franchise that serves the media industry. No surprise that the company isn’t one of the diversified media giants, for which earnings multiples are the only meaningful metric.
National Geographic Adventure has lost its passport. It’s the latest casualty in the 2009 media meltdown. Staff was told today that the magazine, a 10-year-old extension of National Geographic, would close, according to a 
I’m not giving up on 
In a discussion/promotion for his business at 
Another concise and dead-on blog from Seth Godin, marketing guru.
I couldn’t find the study myself and no link was provided, so I’m taking 
50 years ago today — Aug. 21, 1959 — Hawaii became the 50th state. My personal thanks to Hawaii for providing us with surfing, luaus, the IronMan Triathlon, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole (Iz: Somewhere Over the Rainbow), Barack Obama and, of course, the state fish: humuhumunukunuku’apua’a, which looks like this: 
