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4 Minute Roundup: The Death of E&P; AOL’s Spin-Off

Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at the recent announcement that Nielsen will be shuttering Editor & Publisher magazine, which covered the newspaper business since 1884. E&P’s Jennifer Saba says the loss of classified advertising was as much to blame as Romenesko. Plus, America Online was spun-off from Time Warner yesterday and has an uphill climb to make it as an independent company with dwindling dial-up subscribers.

Check it out:

Background music is “What the World Needs” by the The Ukelele Hipster Kings via PodSafe Music Network.

Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:

Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews Close at NY Times

Farewell, Editor & Publisher by Steve Outing

Media Cover Sudden Demise of ‘E&P’ — Readers Express Shock and Broad Support — Hope Remains? at E&P

Editor & Publisher, Kirkus Reviews to be shut at LA Times

While Dying, Editor & Publisher Showed Journalism How To Live by Will Bunch at Huffington Post

E&P and the emotional commitment of a subscription at Nieman Journalism Lab

AOL Spinoff Faces Not Challenges, Not Hurdles, But Steep Cliffs at BNET

AOL IPO, Take Two at WSJ

After the Divorce, AOL Faces Challenges at NY Times

AOL’s Sob-Story Fooled Wall Street… And Now The Stock Is Undervalued! at Silicon Alley Insider

AOL’s first day — We want to believe at CNET

AOL shares fall on debut trading day at the Telegraph

AOL seeks a new growth strategy at BBC

AOL Completes Spin-Off From Time Warner at InformationWeek

Poll — What Was the Worst Deal of the Decade? at WSJ

Here’s the entire interview with E&P’s Jennifer Saba:

Here’s a graphical view of last week’s MediaShift survey results. The question was: “Who will benefit most from the Comcast/NBC merger?”

Also, be sure to vote in our poll about what killed E&P magazine.

Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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