Editor & Publisher Sold (to Boating Magazine Co.), Resumes Operations (Greg Mitchell Let Go)

[Hissyspit]

Source: Editor & Publisher / Huffington Post

Back in Business: 'E&P' Sold, Resumes Operations

By E&P Staff

Published: January 14, 2010
NEW YORK Editor & Publisher, the only independent news organization reporting on all aspects of the transforming newspaper business, has resumed publication in print and online following its sale Thursday to Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc., the Irvine, Calif.-based magazine and newspaper publisher.

The announcement came exactly two weeks after the closing of E&P, the acknowledged "bible of the newspaper industry," which can trace its roots back 126 years.

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Charles "Chas" McKeown, who will continue as publisher of E&P, hailed the sale and the speed and professionalism with which McIntosh and Nielsen completed the transaction. "Everyone knew what was at stake here," McKeown said. "Newspapers, which are transforming beyond the printed page to all forms of digital media, simply could not lose the one place where the industry could have a conversation with itself and exchange ideas and best practices for navigating the uncertain waters ahead, exemplified by our Interactive Media Conference which includes cable, TV, radio and other media."

Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc. is the publisher of several well-respected boating magazines and newspapers, including Boating World magazine; Sea Magazine, America's Western Boating Magazine; The Log Newspaper; and FishRap. The company also produces the Newport Boat Show in the spring and the Lido Yacht Expo in the fall. Both shows are held in California. Mark Fitzgerald, a 26-year veteran, was named as E&P's new editor. He had most recently served as E&P's editor-at-large.

Read more: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/index.jsp

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From Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/editor-publisher-finds-bu_n_424105.html

Editor & Publisher has found a new buyer — but its top editorial talent will not stay with the magazine.

The magazine, which chronicles the newspaper industry, was set to fold after Nielsen sold many, but not all, of its trade publications to e5 Global Media LLC. But Duncan McIntosh, the California-based publisher of Boating World magazine and Fish Rap News, stepped in and purchased the title from Nielsen.

However, editor Greg Mitchell announced Thursday that McIntosh has informed him that he will no longer have a position with the magazine:

Got call from new buyer of Editor & Publisher, Duncan McIntosh, who publishes Boating World magazine and Fish Rap News in Irvine, Ca., a couple of hours ago, telling me that I am out as editor after eight years (and 10 years with magazine). The great Joe "Scoop" Strupp also out -- a truly great loss. One week ago in a meeting new owner told me flatly, "Extremely impressed with your great work and definitely will retain you."

[tonysam]

1. I wish they'd keep Greg

He was really nice to email. I emailed him a lot during the 2004 and 2008 campaigns regarding newspaper endorsements.

[Hissyspit]

2. He answered my emails, too.

This whole thing sucks. At least the magazine is continuing.

[Octafish]

8. Carlyle Group knows how to turn a buck...

...even when doing satan's groundwork.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Greg was a terrific editor and reporter

I suspect E & P is about to become yet another Fish Wrap -- ptooey.

[Octafish]

7. + 1

The guy did what journos are supposed to: He comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable.

[Blue_Tires]

9. +1

[EFerrari]

4. Greg was the best part of that enterprise.

[Octafish]

6. + 1

The guy was on to the gangsters, so he was a marked man.

[Solly Mack]

5. k/r