Pamela Kruger

March 28, 2007

Another day, another magazine drops

Goodbye Child.
The magazine, at which I've been a contributing editor, was shut down yesterday. While it still has a circulation of 850,000, ad sales have been declining, as advertising and readers are migrating to the web. Meredith, the corporate owner, says child.com will live on, but it clearly won't be publishing the kind of features and art that made the magazine what it was.
Which is too bad. Miriam Arond, the editor in chief, and the editors she assembled, were truly some of the best I've ever had an opportunity to work with.
Ironically, I had just participated in a panel discussion the night before at William Paterson University, in which we discussed the economic pressures on the magazine (as well as newspaper) industry. Case in point.