VITAMEDIAS
Shift magazine publishes its last issue: After several near-deaths and consequent re-births, Shift magazine, the financially troubled but influential tech culture magazine, may have given up the ghost for good.
The board of directors of St. Joseph Media, which controls Shift's publishing company, Multi-Vision Publishing Inc., yesterday announced that the magazine's upcoming March issue, already printed, would be its last.[...]
MacNeil said that he acquired the magazine "when everyone else had given up on it."
At the time, he said, he thought only that the tech sector was going through a rough patch that would last months, not years.
He said that in the magazine's history, only the 10th anniversary issue, released last fall, had been profitable.