Categories: OLD Media Moves

The return of The Industry Standard?

Eric Savitz of Barron’s notes that there are indications that former business magazine The Industry Standard could be coming back.

Savitz wrote, “Itâ€™s now been six years since the death of the once-celebrated ‘newsmagazine of the Internet Economy,’ the Industry Standard. I spent three years at the Standard; it was a great magazine, and has many admirers to this day. The Standard is just one of a group of bubble-era tech magazines that have vanished; just this week, Time-Warner pulled the plug on Business 2.0.

“So, all that is prelude to having you go take a look at thestandard.com, the magazineâ€™s old Web site. For a while, the company tried to keep the web site going on the cheap, simply recycling content from various trade mags published by IDG, which founded the Standard, owned a majority of its stock in the bubble days, and bought back the remnants in bankruptcy court in 2001. Right now, all thatâ€™s there is a logoâ€¦and the words ‘coming back.’

“The Standard is coming back? Maybe, although a web-only format would be a lot more likely than a print magazine. Still it would be nice to have it back.”

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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.