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NEW YORK Yesterday, at 2 p.m., we shipped the possibly final issue of Editor and Publisher from our office here at Astor Place in New York City.
For the record, it is the January 2010 issue, so we made it into our 126th year, at least. But hope remains that we will continue.
As many know, we got our inexplicable closing notice from The Nielsen Co. on December 10, which was met by outrage, thousands of supportive messages and even an unlikely place on the Twitter trending list.
Staffers decided to stay on to finish that issue and keep our Web site going -- Steve Outing's latest column just went up -- until the end of the year in hopes of encouraging outside help and bids for a takeover.
Indeed, there has been a lot of interest but no firm news to report as yet. We are scheduled to vacate our offices by the end of Thursday, though, of course, E/P could always be brought back a bit later, or online only. We hope to have something positive to report by Thursday. Evacuating the office does not mean that we will not re-assemble shortly. This web site will not be taken down.
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