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Rolling Stone streamlines editorial team

By | Published on Thursday 21 June 2012

Rolling Stone

US music magazine Rolling Stone has laid off up to five staff members, according to a report on the Poynter.org website. It’s thought Managing Editor Evie Nagy and Associate Editor Matthew Perpetua were among those let go on Tuesday.

Sources says that management at the title have told staff they plan to more closely integrate print and online editorial teams, something done by many other newspapers and magazines in recent years, after initially hiring separate journalists to generate online content when the world wide web first gained mainstream momentum ten years ago.

Although Rolling Stone has an extensive free-to-access website, some say the online operation has been more overtly promoting the print edition of late. Content from the latest issue of the magazine and its 45 year archive is only available to subscribers of the print version, an online-only subscription package to access that content having been phased out.



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