, Columnist
Lazy Journalists Aren't to Blame for Death of Print
The problem with journalism isn't a decline in productivity.
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This week's announcement that New York magazine was becoming a biweekly was greeted, in my profession, with the sort of cheer that might herald the announcement of a sewer line backup or a mid-honeymoon appendectomy.
New York magazine is very successful. Its editor is very well regarded, and it wins lots of awards. It gets scads of Web traffic. It publishes magazine features that win the admiration of fellow journalists and has also become practically ubiquitous on social media. And, apparently, it still can't pay the bills as a weekly publication. Hearing that New York magazine can't make it as a weekly is, for a professional journalist, rather like being told that your teddy bear has cancer. How is that even possible?