Categories: OLD Media Moves

Business 2.0 staff told that September issue won't be the last

Nat Ives of Advertising Age reports that Time Inc. business magazine Business 2.0, which many believed would be killed after its September issue, has gotten a temporary reprieve.

Apparently the Facebook group — which now has more than 2,000 members, including the Talking Biz News administrator — created to save the magazine had some effect.

Ives wrote, “Offers to buy Business 2.0 have begun arriving at Time Inc., although it’s not clear whether any are sizeable or serious enough to provide a real alternative to shutting down. Time Inc. could also decide not to try a sale and instead fold some of the magazine’s talent and editorial into Fortune.

“A spokeswoman for the Time Inc. Business and Finance Group said Time Inc. is still considering what to do. ‘The Facebook reaction is a great example of an impassioned reader base using the web to make its voice heard and is a testament to the excellence of Business 2.0’s reporting,’ she said. ‘While we haven’t come to any final decisions, we’re committed to finding a way to provide its readers with the innovative business coverage they’ve come to expect.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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