Hearst Folds Quarterly Teen Title

A shrinking market for print media continues to take its toll.
 
The teen magazine category has suffered another casualty, with Hearst Magazines folding Teen, a quarterly publication that it bought along with Seventeen from Primedia in 2003. Meanwhile, Garden & Gun, a regional title aimed at affluent Southerners, is threatened with folding unless it can shore up a buyer or investors in the next several days.
 
As a newsstand-only title, Teen may have been especially vulnerable in the face of the weak single-copy sales market that has plagued magazines this past year.