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InfoWorld will no longer publish

San Francisco Chronicle reporter Jessica Guynn reports on the paper’s Tech Chronicles blog that the tech industry publication InfoWorld will no longer publish a print edition. Instead, it will send its content to subscribers via e-mail.

Guynn wrote, “The folks there think this is long overdue and that lamenting the demise of a three-decade-old business magazine’s print edition is very ‘old school.’

“‘It shows how many embedded ideas we all have about print–assumptions that must be reconsidered before we can fully free ourselves from the overly confining attitudes of the past,’ blogs Virginia Hines, InfoWorld.com’s vice president and general manager.

“‘We’re a relatively small group with limited resources, and going ahead and making a move that’s eventually inevitable in any case lets us focus undivided attention on the areas of greatest future opportunity for our business.’

“The magazine’s last issue will hit newsstands next week, parent company International Data Group (IDG) said. Approximately 10 employees were laid off.” The news release is here.

Read more here.

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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