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Print's Charming Once Again For Editors Who Moved To Web

A nice feature in Women's Wear Daily/Media profiles several women editors who first moved to the Web after their print pubs folded, but have since returned to print. Why the move back to traditional publishing? asks writer John Koblin.

For example, there's Deborah Needleman, formerly editor of the defunct decorating magazine Domino, who tried to start an ecommerce site, but ultimately decided she was more interested in an editorial product, becoming editor of the Wall Street Journal's glossy supplement WSJ.

"Could it possibly be any more old-school?" Needleman asks in the piece. "It's practically 19th century. And that's what was interesting. It was yet another format. Wow, the broadsheet, what can I do with that?"

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