Rumor: Plenty Magazine Dishes Out The Pink Slips, Dropping Print
Filed under: magazines — Michael d'Estries @ 2:46 pm
January 6th 2009
Gawker is reporting that environmental mag Plenty has laid off almost its entire staff after failing to secure a new round of funding. Back in September, it was floated around that Al Gore was interested in purchasing a stake in the company. Then, that rumor was debunked and Live Earth’s Kevin Wall was seeded as the man in discussions. Now, it appears that no savior can be found and layoffs are in effect. From Gawker,
Our tipster said the money from Gore or whoever didn’t come through, and that Plenty editor and publisher Mark Spellun on Monday sacked everyone save for a skeleton crew of four or five people who will keep the website going.
Sad to see Plenty go — but we’re heartened to hear that some form of it will continue online. Anyone else in the magazine world feeling the hurt?
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No magazine in America over, say, 30,000 circ can call itself green…so while it’s sad and painful, I personally think, having just gone through it, that the movement online is a great thing. The question will be whether magazines and papers (like CSM) can maintain editorial integrity in the fast-paced, ill-researched echo chamber that is so much of the world wide web: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2009/01/forest-fire-the-great-magazine-burn-off-of-2008-9-plenty-christian-science-monitor-elephant-journal-alpinist-backpacker/
oh, what a shame! i really enjoyed PLENTY (and will continue to online). though i do most of my periodical reading electronically… i always looked forward to picking up a PLENTY in the grocery line – they’d honed the perfect combination of information, style and eco-driven inspiration. good luck to the remaining staff & those who’ve found themselves moving on to the next thing!
another “fabulous” contribution to the environmental movement by kevin wall. where is LIvE EARTH now anyway ?
yeah yeah Plenty of Talk, no there there, and no soul. Good riddance to Wall and Spellum they are both pretty gross to anyone who knows them for more than 5 minutes…. vampires should be buried.