The NME is to cease publication in print after 66 years, the weekly music title joining a growing list of once mighty magazine brands that now only exist online. The NME.com website will continue, replacing the print edition’s cover star interview with a new weekly digital franchise, the Big Read. It relaunched as an ad-funded, free title with a circulation of 300,000 in a last throw of the strategic dice for the print edition. “NME will also be exploring other opportunities to bring its best-in-class music journalism to market in print,” Time said. Print title closures2004: The Face2009: I.D, Arena, Maxim2011: Sugar2014: Nuts, Bliss2015: Loaded, Zoo, Company

Source: The Guardian March 07, 2018 13:14 UTC