Blender – another one bites the dust…
oh, crap. another one of my favorite magazines bites the dust. It was inevitable, I suppose, with the way the internet has affected print media over the years. According to the news item, it seems that their website blender.com will still continue to operate. RIP Blender Magazine! you’ll be missed. 
excerpt from Advertising Age:
Alpha Media Group closed Blender magazine today, eliminating about 30 jobs and reducing its portfolio of titles to Maxim alone. The April issue of Blender out now will be its last.
The decision, delivered to Blender staff in a meeting this morning, came as part of broader changes that also included the departure of Alpha co-CEO Glenn Rosenbloom and the integration of editorial staff for Maxim and Maxim Digital.
The remaining CEO, Stephen Duggan, said in a company memo that the company was closing Blender with great sadness. “Since 2001, Blender has provided unmatched music coverage and entertainment news in its unique voice to a profoundly dedicated audience of music enthusiasts,” Mr. Duggan wrote. “We are particularly grateful to the sales team and to the tremendously talented editorial staff for their hard work and commitment to Blender.”
Alpha, the former Dennis Publishing, has endured a series of difficulties and hard choices since its acquisition by Quadrangle Capital Partners and magazine-industry veteran Kent Brownridge in August 2007. The new owners punctuated the $240 million deal by immediately closing Stuff magazine, a sort of laddie shopping title. Blender.com will continue, much as Stuff continues as “Stuff Magazine” at stuff.maxim.com.
What a refreshing website. Nice to find someone who thinks like me. lol. I do a daily blog from the past but we are very new.
Brad…,
I know where Hazard is…I am glad you like how we think…Great minds think alike