High-Tech Flux, Economy Hurt Print Media

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CMP Media last week pulled the plug on LANTimes magazine just a few days after rival Ziff-Davis announced the closing of three high-tech publications and laid off 10 percent of its 3,500 global work force.
Given the flat technology ad market and continuing fluctuations in the world economy, the downward trend will last well into 1999, publishers and industry watchers said.
“It will continue through the first quarter of next year. It could last longer,” said Craig DeWolf, executive vice president of J.

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