Gutenberg be damned\u2014Entertainment Weekly <\/i>and four other titles are shifting from print to digital-only content beginning in April, according to Barry Diller\u2019s IAC\/Interactive group, which acquired them from Meredith last year, folding them into Dotdash Meredith. The other four magazines included in the shift are Eating Well, InStyle, Parents<\/i>, and People en Espa\u00f1ol. <\/i>It\u2019s been reported that 200 employees will be axed as a result of the move.<\/p>\n
Industry observers point to the waning of print media as readers increasingly turn to digital devices for content, a trend that has only been accelerated by the pandemic. In a memo sent to employees, Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel explained: \u201cIt is not news to anyone that there has been a pronounced shift in readership and advertising from print to digital, and as a result, for a few important brands, print is no longer serving the brand\u2019s core purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n
Entertainment Weekly<\/i> started entertaining readers in 1990 when it was a Time Inc. property. It quickly became a significant publication in the pop culture realm, feeding the public\u2019s insatiable appetite for news about Hollywood and TV stars. IAC bought the publications from Meredith in late 2021, paying $1.8 billion. Dotdash Meredith said it had no plans to end print production of its 19 other titles, including the iconic People<\/i> and Better Homes & Gardens.<\/i><\/p>\n
Still, there seems to be hope that print will survive, at least for the foreseeable future. As Vogel wrote in his memo, \u201cNaysayers will interpret this as another nail in print\u2019s coffin. They couldn\u2019t be more wrong \u2014 print remains core to Dotdash Meredith.\u201d Commenting on the demise of its print version, former EW staff writer Benjamin Svetkey wrote this week in The Wrap<\/i>:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThere was a time, eons ago, when one simple declarative sentence could prick up ears all over Hollywood, and sometimes send shivers of fear and loathing down the whole town\u2019s spine. It usually began something like, \u2018Entertainment Weekly is doing a story on\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard to imagine in 2022, in a world where print magazines seem about as relevant as ladies\u2019 hats and men\u2019s spats, but back in the 1990s and well into the 2000s, EW was the most powerful voice in entertainment journalism,\u201d one that\u00a0 <\/span>thrived because of its \u201csuper savvy, smart-ass-y attitude.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gutenberg be damned\u2014Entertainment Weekly and four other titles are shifting from print to digital-only content beginning in April, according to Barry Diller\u2019s IAC\/Interactive group, which acquired them from Meredith last year, folding them into Dotdash Meredith. The other four magazines included in the shift are Eating Well, InStyle, Parents, and People en Espa\u00f1ol. It\u2019s been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7136,7142,7143,7141,7138,7140,7137,7139],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n