Eating Well and other Meredith magazines swing to digital-only

Dotdash Meredith employees learned last week the behemoth digital and print corporation will end print versions of six longstanding magazines. The titles include the food publication Eating Well and Health, EW, Parents, and People en Espanol. All will publish their final hard-copy editions in April before going exclusively digital, Forbes reports. This is yet another turn for the recipe-driven Eating Well, one of a dwindling number of high-circulation food glossies. It was acquired by Meredith in 2011, a move that The New York Times touted as a win for a publication that had once occupied “drafty warehouse offices it shared with curtain-climbing raccoons and a squirrel skilled at stealing bread loaves.” Under Meredith, its numbers started climbing, but the media landscape looks much different a decade later. The final diagnosis given by CEO Neil Vogel has become a media industry standard: poor circulation numbers due to a “shift in readership from print to digital.” Two hundred employees will lose their jobs, although some might land in one of 100 positions the company now has open. The move comes after IAC/InterActiveCorp purchased Meredith at $2.7 billion in October. Another day, another media merger. —Safiya Charles