[thechat] Newmedia.pro Magazine Ceases Publication
Michele Foster
michele at wordpro.on.ca
Wed May 16 13:05:17 CDT 2001
Evolt's browser archive was featured a couple months ago in this magazine.
excerpted from multimediator bitstream newsletter
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http://www.multimediator.com/bitstream/archive.shtml
Michele
+++ newmedia.pro Industry Magazine Ceases Publication
We are saddened to report that following its three-year run
serving the digital content creation community in Canada,
BitStream's unofficial 'sister publication', the excellent
newmedia.pro Magazine, has ceased publication with its
April 2001 issue. "The decision to stop publishing
newmedia.pro is personally and professionally
disappointing, certainly," editor Lee Rickwood said, "but I
cannot honestly say it was a big surprise. Although we were
able to achieve an initial profitability with the
magazine, ad revenues were definitely down in the past 18
months. That fact, coupled with the recent market downturn
and Dotcom implosion, put additional pressures on the
magazine and left the company little room to move.
" newmedia.pro Magazine was launched in April 1998, and
made its debut at the newMedia Conference and Trade Show
in Toronto the following month. The magazine reported on
developments in digital media techniques and technologies,
and described how those developments affected digital
media content creators in Canada. "Despite the fiscal and
financial hurdles, I think the magazine was able to hit
a number of good notes that resonated with our readers,"
Rickwood added. "There's no shortage of information out
there, but we tried to put it in some sort of valuable
context, give it a more local flavour and feel. The
Canadian digital media community is a dynamic and creative
one; the artists and producers I've met and written about
will always be an inspiration to me. Our industry may
suffer from a perceived lack of critical mass, it may be
hindered by a disparate geography and it may be tarnished
by the Dotcom meltdown, but I have no doubt that it will
survive and flourish - there's way too much talent out
there - and that new vehicles will be found to get the word
out!"
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