It's been a pretty depressing outlook for the majority of print media over the last few years. Titles closing, jobs being consolidated and fewer and fewer outlets providing real quality journalism that doesn't just re-hash the same sex tips every six months. With circulations rapidly in decline as young men and women in particular look for more instantaneous news and inspiration, more publishing houses are trying to change the way they operate in an attempt to stay afloat. What was once a pretty stable and cash rich industry (thanks to the constant support of big brands paying to be seen within their pages,) has become volatile, somewhat outdated and in jeopardy of disappearing altogether. Last week one of the UK's biggest monthly women's glossies, Glamour, announced they would no longer be publishing the magazine in the format we'd known and loved for so long; they're now to be an 'online beauty destination' with a supporting glossy magazine published seasonally only twice a year.
Although this was greeted with thoughts of 'another one bites the dust' I was genuinely a little shocked, surprised and sad at this news. (Even more so when editor Jo Elvin announced she'd also be leaving the title.) I've been a Glamour reader since it was first launched in the UK and for years absorbed the magazine from cover to cover; although in recent years I felt somewhat distanced from it as a title, thanks to the cover price reducing to a single pound I started to pick it up again and re...