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While Dvorak's right that it was a shabby way to end things, it very well may be that PC Mag is on its way to shutting down. Note that the screenshot of the e
by blihp 8y ago
While Dvorak's right that it was a shabby way to end things, it very well may be that PC Mag is on its way to shutting down. Note that the screenshot of the email notifying him indicated they were going to 'put all outside columns on hiatus.' That sounds like pure cost cutting to me.
- busterarm 8y agoIs Tim Bajarin still a columnist for PC Mag? Wayne Rash? Whitson Gordon? Brent Johnson?
- blihp 8y agoNo idea. Assuming those are all 'outside columns' (I don't know as I haven't read PC Mag in years), it seems like the veracity of the story Dvorak's been told will become clear very soon.
- busterarm 8y agoThey're listed as Columnists (as opposed to Contributing Editor, which means you're an employee), have non-pcmag.com (unlike all of their other authors) email addresses in their Author Bios on PC Mag's site and with one exception (a twice-yearly contributor anyway) they all have published PC Mag articles within the last week. Moreover, they all have full-time jobs which are not at Ziff Davis. Knowledge is power.
- ternaryoperator 8y ago> (as opposed to Contributing Editor, which means you're an employee) It might mean that at PC Mag, but it definitely does not mean that on other magazines. In fact, at most publications it refers to someone who is not an employee. For more, see [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributing_editor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributing_editor
- busterarm 8y agoYou're certainly right. In fact most authors actually have Analyst or Reporter. I was looking at Tim Gideon and a few others as an example, who happen to have a pcmag emails. Thank you for the correction.
- Doctor_Fegg 8y agoMost _US_ publications. In the UK we don’t do that, we just call them “contributors”.
- arkades 8y agoIt wouldn't entirely surprise me if this was a political issue. He's right-wing enough that he leans into, as another poster put it, "info wars lite." It wouldn't shock me if some advertisers no longer wanted to appear alongside him, pre-emptively, and his twitter thread notes that someone was complaining about him with some anti-Trump comments. Then again, maybe not. I guess it'll become more clear once we find out the status of their other outside columnists.
- busterarm 8y agoWayne Rash and Whitson Gordon are no longer listed as Columnists, but Tim Bajarin still is and had a new article posted yesterday.