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Vibe goes under
First Blender, now VIBE. What a bummer that all these mags are done. Vibe was founded in the early 90's by Quincy Jones and started out with Jonathan Van Meter (VOGUE) as the editor in chief. Jonathan is a good friend and amazing writer. Chances are if you read the cover stories in Vogue on beautiful leading actresses he was written them. He recently wrote an obit for VIBE in Ny magazine about his struggle with Quincy not to put Michael Jackson on the cover. At the time, the latter was in his "wacko jacko" phase. Now he has been martyred so it would have seemed appropirate. Oh well. I didn't really read it at the end because I wasn't that into the editorial vision, but as a photographer I am always sad to see another publication close. I'm just dredding the day when Rolling Stone shutters its doors.
Courtesy of PDN:
The entire VIBE Media Group is shutting down effective Tuesday, according to a memo from CEO Steve Aaron. The staff had been in the process of editing a tribute issue of the magazine commemorating Michael Jackson.
The company was unable to secure financial backing, or to restructure a "huge debt," Aaron wrote. Declines in the music industry and in advertising worked against the business. "It's also unfortunate that in a recession many companies reduce the multi-cultural campaigns," Aaron added.
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