Far Eastern Economic Review folds -- sort of

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Eighty jobs to go as the publishers call time on it’s 58-year history.

NEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Dow Jones & Co. is changing its unprofitable Far Eastern Economic Review magazine to a monthly from a weekly, resulting in the loss of a tenth of the company’s jobs in Asia and a fourth-quarter charge.
The publisher of the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday it will cut 80 jobs following the change to the Asian current affairs magazine and take a fourth-quarter charge of about $3 million, or 2 cents a share.
The magazine, published in Hong Kong since 1946, has lost money for the past six years, Chairman and Chief Executive Peter Kann said in a statement. The monthly Review’s business model will rely mostly on circulation though it will still accept ``select’’ advertising, he said.
The first issue of the monthly Far Eastern Economic Review will be published in December.

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I think that’s a fair enough decision, as long as the monthly edition is a lot fatter than the weekly and still covers all the region’s most important news.

I used to subscribe to the FEER way back in the 1980s when I was still living in London, and was a very big fan, but I haven’t looked at it at all in recent years.

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Omni wrote [quote]… I haven’t looked at it at all in recent years.[/quote]

i.e. after joining Forumosa :wink:

The FEER is excellent. I don’t think producing it as a monthly will hurt the mag. Such magazines do best when they ignore news for in-depth stories.