Thank you Boston. Good night and good luck.
— Boston Phoenix (@BostonPhoenix) March 14, 2013
With that terse dispatch, the ground-breaking, Boston
alternative weekly, which only six months ago reinvented itself from tabloid
newspaper into glossy magazine, put a final punctuation mark on its announcement
that its current issue, dated March 15, will be its last.
According to a story at boston.com, sister publications in
Providence and Portland, Maine, will stay in business, but WFNX.com, the
Phoenix Media/Communication Corp.’s online radio station, will not continue in
its present form, its fate to be decided shortly. The company’s custom
publishing unit and MassWeb Printing operation, based in Auburn, Mass., will
remain open.
The online edition of the Boston Phoenix, slated to appear
March 22, will be its last, too.
Employees at the Phoenix, whose origins date back to 1966,
were told of the closings by owner and publisher Stephen M. Mindich at a 2 p.m.
meeting Thursday. It is expected that about 40 employees will be let go within
the week and another ten or so soon after, according to executive editor Peter
Kadzis, who described the general reaction among Phoenix staffers as
“shell-shocked.” Several people were crying during the meeting, according to one
person who was there.
Statement from @bostonphoenix publisher Stephen Mindich: ow.ly/iWwRg
— Boston Phoenix (@BostonPhoenix) March 14, 2013
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