End-of-the-Year Blogging: 2009 Lists | Losses and Closings
Today in 2009 lists: losses and closings.
- MSNBC covers the nine occupations that took the biggest hit in 2009’s Great Recession, from construction to architecture.
- Add to that list the top 100 media companies, which saw revenues drop this year (Adage.com, via Advertising Age).
- Washington Post’s stand-alone book section, Book World, closed in 2009.
- On the magazine front, according to a Media Finder press release, 275 new magazines launched in 2009, but 429 folded, including the venerable Gourmet Magazine, founded in 1941. (Hat tip, Huffington Post media page.)
- Lambda Rising, D.C.’s iconic gay bookstore, will shutter (via NPR).
- People spent less time reading online newspaper Web sites in 2009, according to an exclusive report by Editor & Publisher, which announced this year that it may itself fold.
- The New York Times’ “The Medium” column and blog — a well-written, funny, and informative weekly piece that managed to distill the Internet — sadly went bye-bye this year. That one hurt. 🙁
Yuck! On to the Tens!