Editor & Publisher to shut down

This one’s not a surprise, but still, it’s disconcerting. I remember scanning its job ads eagerly in the early 1990s. Now everyone I know looks at journalismjobs.com and mediabistro.com. I guess that says it all:

Editor & Publisher, the bible of the newspaper industry and a journalism institution that traces its origins back to 1884, is ceasing publication.

An announcement, made by parent company The Nielsen Co., was made Thursday morning as staffers were informed that E&P, in both print and online, was shutting down.

RIP.

UPDATE:

I just received this email regarding what’s to become of E&P’s archival “morgue,” which — as Bob points out in his comment — clearly holds potential interest for journalism scholars. From Shawn Moynihan, E&P managing editor:

“We’ve had several people volunteer o take it off our hands, thankfully. We’re waiting on word form Nielsen about what will become of it — we have bound volumes in our morgue that go back to the late 1800s. I’ll keep you posted, we’re here through Dec. 31.”

Sounds like bidders better queue up.

By the way — couldn’t Nielson have waited until after the holidays to drop the axe?