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Crain’s New York Business: In the first half of 2015, 52 print magazines launched and 21 shut down, and — in a demonstration of the volatility of print media and the willingness of publishers to throw titles against the wall to see what sticks — a few were reincarnated. For example: In April, Organic Gardening, the oldest magazine in the Rodale stable, was relaunched as Organic Life. “That was a closure and a launch,” said Trish Hagood, president of MediaFinder.com, the online database of U.S. and Canadian periodicals, which has released its first-half numbers.