News magazines were particularly hard-hit in the first half of the year, with ad page totals suffering a drop of "a combined 18% in the first half of 2013 compared with the same period a year
earlier," writes Katerina Matsa, citing figures released by the Association of Magazine Media. Those numbers rank print editions of five major news pubs --
Time, The Economist, The Atlantic, The
Week and
The New Yorker. Meanwhile, "total consumer magazine ad pages dropped 4.9% compared with the first half of 2012."
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