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Staff, mediaweek.co.uk, 17 November 2009, 11:40am

Media Week goes online-only under Haymarket restructure

LONDON - Media Week is to discontinue its print edition and go online-only with immediate effect as part of a restructure of Haymarket Business Media's Brand Media group affecting all titles in the division.

Today's Media Week, the last print edition to be published by Haymarket

Today's edition - cover-dated 17 November - will be the last print edition of Media Week.

Media Week will continue online under the control of a full-time editor and draw on the resources of an enlarged Brand Republic news team.

The Media Week Awards, Media 360 and other events run under the Media Week brand will continue unaffected.

Brand Media includes Media Week, Campaign, Marketing, Brand Republic and Revolution. A joint news team will now operate across all brands in the division.

In other changes, Revolution will now be distributed as a quarterly supplement with Marketing magazine. The Revolution Awards, conferences and forums will continue to take place unaffected by changes to the magazine.

The division's online-only brands - Marketing Direct and Promotions & Incentives - will be integrated into Brand Republic.

As a result of the changes, all 58 editorial staff in Brand Media have entered into a consultation process - 18 positions will be lost from the division.

Read the Haymarket announcement in full

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All Comments

Claire Foss - 17 November 2009

Goodness. What sad news.

Martin Loat - 17 November 2009

It is sad that it's come to this. I worked on the very first edition of Media Week when it launched in 1985 and I helped organise the magazine's 20th birthday party. I've read every issue. I will miss my Tuesday morning hard copy fix.

Martin Loat Propeller PR|Internet|Mobile

Alex Blyth - 17 November 2009

That is genuinely sad news. Two top titles with some excellent people working on them.

john reynolds - 17 November 2009

yes you are right.

Richard Gregory - 17 November 2009

Digital publications going online only? Makes sense to me.

Mark Palmer - 17 November 2009

As a free title Media Week naturally got hit badly by downturn in recruitment ads etc. It tried to shift to get agencies to subscription - but the media world doesn't want to pay. In the process, the media industry has shot itself in the foot and lost a major marketing platform.

Media Village - 17 November 2009

Mark Palmer is spot on. Media Week's demise is a failure of the industry to support its own title. And it's pretty crass of Martin Loat to use a magazine's closure as a tactical opportunity to promote his own agency. Says it all really.

Amanda Harrison - 17 November 2009

Really sorry to hear that, from a former Media Week journalist 1994-1996.

Fred Perkins - 17 November 2009

Happy to see this move. media Week is one of those publications where its value is in the timelieness of the communication \(to me). The magazine itself goes pretty well unread, as I've already seen most of what interests me.

At the same time, I've cancelled subscriptions to quite a few publications where the hardcopy is a luxury I can't justify, and am not prepared to pay a premium for paper and postage.

I'm happy to pay for an electronic version, provided it offers value for money. I've been an electronic subscriber to the FT for years, despite it being CHEAPER to subscribe to the newspaper with electronic access thrown in). I don't want the subsidy of the advertisements on the hardcopy. I want the content.

Interesting times....

Good to see Haymarket having the guts to come to terms with the new realities.

MARTIN BOWLEY - 17 November 2009

Understand the online logic but sad news all the same .Some great writers came from Media Week ,Cathy Newman,Stephen Armstrong and the best popular music writer Mark Edwards . We should toast John Thater who had the original idea .

Good luck.

TESS ALPS - 17 November 2009

Commiserations to everyone involved.

Julian Barrett - 17 November 2009

Yes very sad, I grew up with Media Week in the mid 80's and 90's. Like Campaign, it was great to read and taught me never to find out about a new press campaign I wasn't aware of, but invariably too late to do anything about.

Kevin Johns - 17 November 2009

End of an editorial era for those that passed through Media Week. Sad news, sign of the times.

I really enjoyed being at Media Week, learned a lot and had fun...

Remember fondly working with Julia Martin, Mark 'The Bomber' Banham, Tim Burrowes, Richard Abbott, Glenys Trevor, Fred Hall, James Livesley, Tony Lithgow, Deborah Bonello, Kevin May, and a few others besides.

krishnamurthi ramachandran - 18 November 2009

After reading this information from you, i am very sad.

Anyhow, you are integrating with brand republic,revolution websites.

I used to write many comments on various subjects to this website.

As a constant reader and writer, this is the latest problem faces by medias.

Robert Mayes - 18 November 2009

Dig a little deeper and you will also find that Haymarket are creating a central news team across titles, meaning significant cuts in staffing on each magazine. Question is: In that scenario how do you maintain quality and excellence? And how do you differentiate your individual brands if news is commoditised? While we all realise the difficulty faced by offline media in an increasingly online world - and in a recession - you can't improve the situation by investing significantly less and compromising on quality. You just run the risk of getting yourself into a dangerous downward spiral....