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Boston Phoenix to close; Portland, Providence papers remain open [View all]
Source: Boston Globe
Boston Phoenix to close; Portland, Providence papers remain open
03/14/2013 6:57 PM
By Joseph P. Kahn, Globe Staff
In a poignant signal of a fast-changing media landscape, The Boston Phoenix sent out a short and simple tweet Thursday afternonon: “Thank you Boston. Good night and good luck.”
With that terse dispatch, the ground-breaking, Boston alternative weekly, which only six months ago reinvented itself from tabloid newspaper into glossy magazine, put a final punctuation mark on its announcement that its current issue, dated March 15, will be its last.
Sister publications in Providence and Portland, Maine, will stay in business, but WFNX.com, the Phoenix Media/Communication Corp.’s online radio station, will not continue in its present form, its fate to be decided shortly. The company’s custom publishing unit and MassWeb Printing operation, based in Auburn, Mass., will remain open.
The online edition of the Boston Phoenix, slated to appear March 22, will be its last, too.
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03/14/2013 6:57 PM
By Joseph P. Kahn, Globe Staff
In a poignant signal of a fast-changing media landscape, The Boston Phoenix sent out a short and simple tweet Thursday afternonon: “Thank you Boston. Good night and good luck.”
With that terse dispatch, the ground-breaking, Boston alternative weekly, which only six months ago reinvented itself from tabloid newspaper into glossy magazine, put a final punctuation mark on its announcement that its current issue, dated March 15, will be its last.
Sister publications in Providence and Portland, Maine, will stay in business, but WFNX.com, the Phoenix Media/Communication Corp.’s online radio station, will not continue in its present form, its fate to be decided shortly. The company’s custom publishing unit and MassWeb Printing operation, based in Auburn, Mass., will remain open.
The online edition of the Boston Phoenix, slated to appear March 22, will be its last, too.
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Read more: http://www.boston.com/culturedesk/2013/03/14/phoenix/QqQzavbEwKfG70lq9GCWVO/story.html
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