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dailyfinance.com - 6/30/2009

Vibe magazine shutting down

— dailyfinance.com — Filed under: Media Vibe magazine, the urban-music magazine founded in 1993 by Quincy Jones, is the latest... victim of the media recession. Multiple sources both within and outside the magazine confirmed that it is shutting down. Reached for comment, ... (more) Vibe magazine shutting down

Quincy Jones

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gawker.com - 6/30/2009

Vibe Folds (Updated) - Vibe

— gawker.com — Vibe Magazine one of the biggest music magazines in America is folding . The entire music magazine... landscape is full of the dead and dying. [ UPDATED below.] Wikipedia sums up Vibe unexpectedly well: The magazine owes its success to having a broader ... (more) Vibe Folds (Updated) - Vibe

Rolling Stone

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Folding magazines: Vibe
No Rock And Roll Fun — It's been struggling for a while, but now the struggle is at an end: Vibe magazine is closing with immediate effect: In a memo to staff members announcing the closure, Steve Aaron, chief of the Vibe Media Group, wrote that for months, the company tried in vain to either find new investors or “to restructure the huge debt on our small company.” “The print advertising collapse hit Vibe hard, especially as key ad categories like automotive and fashion, which represented the bulk of our top 10 advertisers, have stopped advertising or gone out of business,” he ...

Music: Newswire: Vibe magazine closes down
A.V. Club — ... . Founded in 1992 by Quincy Jones, Vibe quickly became a widely read a respected voice covering hip-hop and R&B; music. According to the New York Times Media Decoder blog it continued to enjoy a healthy circulation to the end. The trouble: Advertising, or a lack of it. The magazine will cease operations immediately. ...