News International Corp. is closing Eureka, the monthly science magazine of The Times, three years after its launch.
The staff was told of the magazine's demise on Sept. 28,...
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News International Corp. is closing Eureka, the monthly science magazine of The Times, three years after its launch.
The staff was told of the magazine's demise on Sept. 28, according to Media Week. It said it learned from a source that the closure "was a sign of shifting consumer and corporate priorities, as the heightened time of political consciousness around the environment and green issues appears to have receded in these austere times." News International said it hoped the 20 members of the editorial staff would be given other roles in the company.
The last issue is entitled "Apocalypse: The disaster issue."
-Paul Raeburn
[Thanks to Jim Handman...
For those who have followed my discussions here about industry-produced blog posts...
For those who have followed my discussions here about industry-produced blog posts at ScienceBlogs and at Forbes, you might be interested to know that this is not a new phenomenon. Long before "blog" entered our lexicon, E.B. White, the eminent prose stylist--who, to my knowledge, was not especially known as a defender of journalistic mores--railed against a similar situation in Esquire magazine--in 1976!
David Cay Johnston reminds us of the episode,...
Update: A confidential response from Seed CEO...
Update: A confidential response from Seed CEO Adam Bly was leaked and published by the Guardian. Check my update above.
If you cover such things as heart disease, obesity, food, and nutrition, you'd probably be interested in a blog called Food Frontiers that promises this, in its first post:
The focus will be on innovations in science, nutrition and health policy...We have some exciting things planned for this project, including a...
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