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As if the loss of music icon, Michael Jackson were not enough, Vibe magazine has announced an immediate closure and cessation of all business activities. Word of the magazine’s closure was made official this afternoon across various print and web media. For nearly seventeen years, Vibe magazine, launched by über mogul, Quincy Jones, has been a solid source for all things hip-hop and R&B.
Vibe broke ground in the 90’s by being the first magazine to focus largely on hip-hop and R&B, or ‘urban’ culture, as it is often categorized. Vibe secured competent journalists who offered unique insight on features such as the last interview of Tupac Shakur and President, then Senator, Barack Obama, with the question, ‘will Barack Obama be the first President to rock Air Force Ones on Air Force One?’
Presently, only The Source, which has endured its own legal troubles, and XXL are the only other major, nationally circulated magazines covering similar areas. Vibe is yet another casualty in a bleak economic atmosphere where even the most established print publications have disappeared. Despite their dominance in the urban culture category, the decline of advertising, the bread and butter of print, has left them as hard hit as their peers in other content categories.
Longtime Vibe readers have posted comments on blogs and other websites expressing interest in Vibe's reemergence at least as an online webzine. It has not been reported exactly how many people have been laid off in the closure.
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