{"id":181,"date":"2008-11-19T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/?p=181"},"modified":"2009-05-13T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T20:03:03","slug":"good-bye-pc-magazine-print-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/good-bye-pc-magazine-print-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Good-bye PC Magazine (Print Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This morning it was announced that the print edition of PC Magazine<\/i> will end with the January 2009 issue. Former Editor-in-Chief Michael Miller blogged about this on PCMag.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Memories, memories. I started at PC Magazine<\/i> very shortly after Michael Miller became Editor-in-Chief in 1991. In fact, my first interview was with the previous Editor-in-Chief, Bill Machrone.<\/p>\n

I confess to mixed feelings about the end of the print edition.<\/p>\n

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For many years I loved working at PC Magazine<\/i>, and I worked hard. Putting together the Utilities column every two weeks was an escalating challenge over the ten years I was editor. The utilities got increasingly complex as more and more functionality was added to the operating system.<\/p>\n

But then PC Magazine<\/i> fell on hard financial times and there was wave after wave of layoffs. Eventually the ax came around to me. I’d been working as a full-time freelancer under a handshake agreement (yes, I’m naive) with then-editor Joel Dreyfuss, who had since left the magazine. The bean counters who’d taken management control were legally able to lay me off without severance pay, and they did – quite abruptly. That was how it ended for me after 12 years of 70-hour work weeks, producing what for a long time was the most popular column in the magazine.<\/p>\n

So while I’m mostly over my anger (it’s been a while now since I left), I admit to a little bit of schadenfreude. Did the print magazine fail due to mismanagement after Michael Miller left, or is print just on the way out, or both? Hard to say.<\/p>\n

In any case, I am sad that my relationship with PC Magazine<\/i> ended on a sour note because I spent so many happy years there. The good old days in the 1990s were a great ride. I’ll try to focus on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning it was announced that the print edition of PC Magazine will end with the January 2009 issue. Former Editor-in-Chief Michael Miller blogged about this on PCMag.com. Memories, memories. I started at PC Magazine very shortly after Michael Miller became Editor-in-Chief in 1991. In fact, my first interview was with the previous Editor-in-Chief, Bill … Continue reading Good-bye PC Magazine (Print Edition)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}