The Weekly Standard, the conservative magazine founded by Bill Kristol in 1995, will shut down, Ryan McKibben the CEO of the magazine’s parent company Clarity Media told staffers in an all-hands meeting on Friday morning.
The company made the closure official in a press statement a short time later. The last issue will be published on Dec. 17.
“The Weekly Standard has been hampered by many of the same challenges that countless other magazines and newspapers across the country have been wrestling with,” McKibben said.
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“Despite investing significant resources into the publication, the financial performance of the publication over the last five years — with double-digit declines in its subscriber base all but one year since 2013 — made it clear that a decision had to be made,” he added. “After careful consideration of all possible options for its future,...
The company made the closure official in a press statement a short time later. The last issue will be published on Dec. 17.
“The Weekly Standard has been hampered by many of the same challenges that countless other magazines and newspapers across the country have been wrestling with,” McKibben said.
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“Despite investing significant resources into the publication, the financial performance of the publication over the last five years — with double-digit declines in its subscriber base all but one year since 2013 — made it clear that a decision had to be made,” he added. “After careful consideration of all possible options for its future,...
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On Monday, Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol appeared on Fox News Channel where he discussed a joint editorial published over the weekend, along with fellow Weekly Standard editor Stephen F. Hayes, in which they recommend Gop presidential candidate Mitt Romney "go for gold" and select either Rep. Paul Ryan (R-wi) or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-fl) to be the Republican's vice presidential nominee. Kristol said that he expects the vice presidential pick to be announced on Thursday in preparation for a bus tour which will take the 2012 Gop ticket to a number of battleground states.
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