The California Sunday Magazine, a sumptuously produced and award-winning magazine that got its start as a throwback to the glory days of print, has suspended publication after Emerson Collective, the organization founded by the billionaire investor Laurene Powell Jobs, severed ties with its parent company. It’s most likely the end of the magazine, which has won three National Magazine Awards since its founding in 2014. Two years ago, Emerson Collective acquired Pop-Up Magazine Productions, the company behind California Sunday and the multimedia outlet Pop-Up Magazine. Douglas McGray, the chief executive of Pop-Up Magazine Productions and editor in chief of California Sunday, confirmed the layoffs in an interview on Wednesday, as well as the halt in California Sunday’s print and online publication. With a focus on California, Asia, Latin America and the American West, California Sunday was included in some Sunday editions of The Los Angeles Times and The San Francisco Chronicle until May.

Source: New York Times October 07, 2020 21:49 UTC