- After 35 years in the kiosks of the Spanish State, the specialized music magazine has closed its doors with the publication of the issue 394. According to them, "the coronavirus has been added to the paper crisis" and that has been the reason.
This last journal has the firm of 55 collaborators and an editorial that reports the closure. It highlights the economic key to maintaining this "small" editorial: the sale and advertising of kiosks. They claim that the numbers were being adjusted and that the pandemic has given them the last blow in selling advertising.
He has said that they have always defended the professionalism of journalists, that they did not want to fall into amateurism, and that is why they have decided to close it. "What about the digital world? You'll ask a few. If we talk about precariousness, the net is even bigger. A digital journal, right now, is only possible by resorting to the amateurysm that we have always tried to overcome."
The case of this journal shows, once again, the need to seek formulas beyond the sale of journals and advertising revenue in the press sector immersed in digital reconversion. At ARGIA, we've been trying to do that for a long time, because we believe that community-based media are more independent than those under market shock.