The End Of An Era

Ten years ago, Tina Brown’s Talk magazine launched with a lavish party. But the way things are going, we’re probably never going to see another big magazine launch again.

That’s the gist of David Carr’s sobering media column in The New York Times, remembering the bloated industry that led up to the launch of Talk, and the downturn it preceded — perhaps even predicted.

Ten years ago, journalists, long the salarymen of the publishing economy, began gorging on big contracts and options from digital start-ups like shrimp at a free buffet.

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