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Jet Magazine, The pioneering African-American weekly magazine that many of us grew up on, announced that it will no longer publish a regular print edition. 

Its owner, Johnson Publishing Company, will move Jet to a largely digital format starting in June, delivered through its website and a paid subscription app. Last year, to cut costs, Jet reduced the weekly publication schedule of the digest-size magazine to every three weeks. Now there will only be an annual “best of Jet” print issue.

Linda Johnson Rice, chairwoman of Johnson Publishing, positioned the move as a way to bring Jet into the modern age.


“Almost 63 years ago, my father, John Johnson, named the publication Jet because, as he said in the first issue, ‘In the world today, everything is moving faster. There is more news and far less time to read it,’ “ Ms. Rice said. “He could not have spoken truer words. We are not saying goodbye to Jet, we are embracing the future as my father did in 1951.”

 

 

Jet Magazine Ends Print Publication and Goes Digital  was originally published on tlcnaptown.com