Marty Peretz, the former owner of The New Republic, has just come out with a memoir, and it prompts some nostalgia, and some melancholy thoughts about the death of magazines. For more than a quarter-century now, the media landscape has been evolving at breakneck speed, and in unpredictable directions. Back when the internet destroyed the classified advertising revenue on which most American newspapers depended, the death of the newspaper was widely foretold. But that didn’t happen, at least not in the way most observers expected. On one end of the spectrum, a few elite publications—notably
The Death of the Magazine
The Death of the Magazine
The Death of the Magazine
Marty Peretz, the former owner of The New Republic, has just come out with a memoir, and it prompts some nostalgia, and some melancholy thoughts about the death of magazines. For more than a quarter-century now, the media landscape has been evolving at breakneck speed, and in unpredictable directions. Back when the internet destroyed the classified advertising revenue on which most American newspapers depended, the death of the newspaper was widely foretold. But that didn’t happen, at least not in the way most observers expected. On one end of the spectrum, a few elite publications—notably