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RE: VIBE magazine has shut down

dp.movement — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:51:53 GMT

Don't worry, guys. VIBE Magazine is now secure & will be having a comeback issue sometime this November.

It has recently secured an investor. The newly-appointed editor-in-chief will be Jermain Hall, a former music editor for the online rap magazine, The Source.

Good news, definitely.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/vibe-magazine-names-new-editor-in-chief/

RE: VIBE magazine has shut down

Griffin Avid — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:35:06 GMT

Wow. I've been following all these reports of magazines folding.

An insider told me VIBE was on its way out and I didn't believe it. Seems like the printed medium is going away.

Book stores are suffering too.

VIBE magazine has shut down

Oscar Wilde — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:05:50 GMT

VIBE magazine has shut down. The magazine was launched in 1993 by music industry legend Quincy Jones and it served as as widely revered urban magazine. "On behalf the VIBE CONTENT staff (the best in this business), it is with great sadness, and with heads held high, that we leave the building today," said Danyel Smith, former Chief Content Officer of Vibe Media Group and Editor in Chief of Vibe. "We were assigning and editing a Michael Jackson tribute issue when we got the news," Smith said in a statement released to AllHipHop.com. "It’s a tragic week in overall, but as the doors of VIBE Media Group close, on the eve of the magazine’s sixteenth anniversary, it’s a sad day for music, for hip hop in particular, and for the millions of readers and users who have loved and who continue to love the VIBE brand. We thank you, we have served you with joy, pride and excellence, and we will miss you." In the 90's, VIBE experienced meteoric success as a business and an outlet for urban journalism. It has ailed under the ownership of private equity firm Wicks Group of Companies, AOL reported.