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I love you, Sarah Bennett. Even though you make the rest of us look bad.
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Most of Long Beach Magazine’s staff will be leaving, including publisher Mark Stevens. Live Publishing, Inc.’s Susan Magnall will take over publishing duties for the merged Live Long Beach Magazine.
Granted, it’s been a while (four months) since I moved in such circles, but the merger of LiveLB and Long Beach Magazine (Live Publishing purchased the magazine, formerly owned by the Molinas) seems incredibly troubling.
As I understood it, that LiveLB was (is?) pay-to-play was (is?) an open secret. Long Beach Magazine never shied away from shamelessly covering advertisers, granted, but I didn’t hear any rumblings akin to LiveLB’s unabashed blurring between edit and ads over there. Plus, LBM employed some of the very same freelancers I was working with at The District. It was an enjoyable if not somewhat sleepy read. That this pay-to-play model could wind up in the arguably classier pages of LBM is of great concern.
My only hope is that the advertisers in Long Beach wise up to a fishy proposition when they hear it—that is, if they hear it. (Via The Press-Telegram, which is looking for an editor, by the way.)
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I worked at three different newspapers in the last three years, and two of those went out of business, and the hundreds of thousands of words I wrote for them exist now only in whatever isolated back issues are still out there. So — lesson learned? I don’t think work should be that easy to erase.
Chris Ziegler on the “death of print,” L.A. RECORD and hitting 100 issues. Agreed. [In L.A. Times.]
