RIP: Golf for Women
Fore! Closed!
Golf For Women bogied today when its editor left, and instead of investing in another editor, decided to just shut the thing down.
Is it possible that Hearst mortally wounded one of Conde Nast's magazines by stealing its editor to take over O The Oprah Magazine? Or did they do them a favor?
The Reaper has a feeling that Conde Nast is actually breathing a sigh of relief, as Golf For Women was on life support anyway, and now they have a convenient excuse to close it.
The cover on the left is a typical Conde Nast "ready for the ad package" deal, touting its "Style Issue," but that clearly didn't work.
When people as the Reaper about my handicap, I'm usually not thinking about my next round at the Eternal Nothingness Golf Classic but the odds of Radar, US News & World Report, Blender, Sound & Vision, Kiplingers Personal Finance, Trader Monthly, Portfolio, and Nickelodeon magazines being around a year from now.
Think you're right on Conde being relieved this one's gone from the family. Never seemed to fit and there was little consumer pull for the title.
Posted by: Jack | July 11, 2008 at 09:08 AM