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User-Gen 8020 Magazine Folds

Two editors will leave the company, which employs about 20.

Aug 1, 2008

-By Lucia Moses


Everywhere, a reader-generated travel publication, will soon be found nowhere. Mitch Fox-headed parent company 8020 Publishing, which turned the conventional magazine model on its head by culled its content from readers, is folding the title after four issues.
 
 In a note published on the magazine’s site, editor Todd Lappin said that the title would cease publication so San Francisco-based 8020 could focus on its other magazine, JPG Magazine, which publishes contributions from photographers and writers. “At the end of the day, we just aren't where we need to be, business-wise, with the Web site or magazine,” Lappin wrote.

 Devin Poolman, chief operating officer of 8020, said that while the company was happy with Everywhere’s quality, it wasn’t meeting financial and other goals. He added that JPG was still on track to meet the company’s goal of making a profit by year’s end. “But we still feel very strongly that this is a terrific model for producing magazines and media by having communities contribute,” he said.
 
 Two editors will leave the company, which employs about 20.
 
 The parent company is backed by Halsey Minor, founder of CNET, and helmed by Fox, who was group president and publishing director at Condé Nast until being forced out earlier this year amid a company reorganization. He is president and CEO of 8020.
 
 Under the 8020 model, contributors submit their content to a Web site, the site’s readers vote on the best ones, and the company’s editors use them to produce the magazine.


User-Gen 8020 Magazine Folds

Two editors will leave the company, which employs about 20.

Aug 1, 2008

-By Lucia Moses


Everywhere, a reader-generated travel publication, will soon be found nowhere. Mitch Fox-headed parent company 8020 Publishing, which turned the conventional magazine model on its head by culled its content from readers, is folding the title after four issues.
 
 In a note published on the magazine’s site, editor Todd Lappin said that the title would cease publication so San Francisco-based 8020 could focus on its other magazine, JPG Magazine, which publishes contributions from photographers and writers. “At the end of the day, we just aren't where we need to be, business-wise, with the Web site or magazine,” Lappin wrote.

 Devin Poolman, chief operating officer of 8020, said that while the company was happy with Everywhere’s quality, it wasn’t meeting financial and other goals. He added that JPG was still on track to meet the company’s goal of making a profit by year’s end. “But we still feel very strongly that this is a terrific model for producing magazines and media by having communities contribute,” he said.
 
 Two editors will leave the company, which employs about 20.
 
 The parent company is backed by Halsey Minor, founder of CNET, and helmed by Fox, who was group president and publishing director at Condé Nast until being forced out earlier this year amid a company reorganization. He is president and CEO of 8020.
 
 Under the 8020 model, contributors submit their content to a Web site, the site’s readers vote on the best ones, and the company’s editors use them to produce the magazine.
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