[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 
Visit the BitStream Archives: 
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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