Entrepreneur, subscriber continue longstanding beef

Entrepreneur magazine skipped its June issue because of the pandemic, and it’s getting static about it from a subscriber with a longstanding beef, reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post.

Kelly reports, “The skipped issue in June — which the publisher said will be part of a ‘double issue’ in September — means only seven issues this year.

“‘I suspect their September 2020 issue will be a ‘double issue’ in name only,’ griped subscriber Scott Smith. ‘Their last single-month issue was March 2020 issue, and it was about 110 pages. So a double issue would need to be around 200 pages. Not gonna happen.’

“‘We didn’t publish in June, but we’re not alone in that,’ said Entrepreneur Media president Bill Shaw, blaming the pandemic.

“Meanwhile, Shaw noted that Smith has a history with the magazine that goes back more than 20 years, when Entrepreneur Media sued and won a protracted legal battle against him over trademark infringement.

“‘He still owes us nearly $2 million,’ Shaw said.”

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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.