The NYT has reported that the Wilson Quarterly will publish its last print issue in July. It already has a web site but it seems that that site will no longer exist either. Instead the content of the magazine will be published in a somewhat different form as an app.
The magazine has been published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington for 36 years. In 2010 that Center spent $1.96 million publishing the magazine; its revenue for that year was $950,000. How many more magazines and journals will also come to an end in the near future?
And another in the coming to an end category, NPR’s “Car Talk” will broadcast its last new show in October. It has been on the air for 35 years and is NPR most popular show. We have one volume of “Car Talk Classics” which I took on a trip a few years ago. Unbelievably funny and really did make the miles go by quickly. NPR will be rebroadcasting some of Click and Clack’s, the Tappet Brothers, favorite shows after the live shows come to an end.