Report: Magazine Launches Still Outnumber Closures

MediaPost: Fewer magazines launched in the first quarter of this year than last year, although magazine launches still outnumbered closings, according to MediaFinder.com, a property of Oxbridge Communications that tracks U.S. and Canadian publications. The number of launches declined from 45 new titles in the first quarter of 2014 to 35 new titles in the first quarter of 2015, while the number of magazine closings also decreased from 14 to 13 over the same period.