after 40 years of publishing as the leading nation's oldest and largest gay news publication, the advocate is ceasing it's regular distribution.
after massive layoffs at Regent/Here Media, the Advocate is folding and becoming an insert!
according to QUEERTY
Just days after a glowing profile in the Dallas Morning News of Paul Colichman and Stephen Jarchow's Regent/Here Media comes word from inside the company: it's a sinking ship.
Colichman and Jarchow have gutted The Advocate's masthead in an attempt to stem the mag's bleeding cash reserves. A money loser when Here Media bought it from PlanetOut Partners, they've been unable to turn things around since acquiring the title.
On Wednesday, an estimated 13 staffers were let go, including the magazine's managing editor and 15-year veteran John Jameson was axed, along with art director Craig Edwards (his less experienced deputy was given the job, for much less cash), associate photo editor Meghan Quinn, and copy editor Teresa Morrison. On the business side, associate publisher Mike Phelps and production manager Brian Lindsey were let go. (We're told Lindsey "sent out a naked picture of himself with a sock over his happy parts" upon receiving the news. Send it in if you have it, please!)
And here's the news we're hearing: The Advocate will cease publication as a standalone magazine offered on the newsstand. Instead, it'll be poly-bagged as an insert of the company's fashion and lifestyle glossy Out. The Advocate will now be a 32-page insert in Out magazine! woah...
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as a side tidbit of info, i was a freelance photographer for the advocate during 1989-1993. i worked for editor richard rouilard, who organized the groundbreaking cover with madonna. the first mainstream celebrity to be on the cover of a gay publication. unheard of back then, common place now.
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