**BREAKING NEWS** Quincy Jones To Buy Back Vibe Magazine
Posted on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Things just got really interesting on the publishing front. We’ve been hearing alot from Quincy Jones over the past two days. In an interview with Ebonyjet.com, Quincy Jones vows to buy back Vibe Magazine. He blames the demise on the publications new owners:
“I’m trying to buy my magazine back now,” Jones told EbonyJet.com just moments ago during a telephone call to Jones’ London abode. “They just messed my magazine all up, but I’m gonna get it back. You better believe it, I’m’a take it online because print and all that stuff is over.”
POP THE HOOD for the full scoop….
Jones created Vibe in 1993 and Vibe was purchased by Wicks Media Group in 2006. In February of this year staff were told they would have slashed salaries, a four-day workday and that the company would only publish 10 issues in 2010 in order to save money. But that wasn’t enough. At around 2 p.m. CST, the Internet flooded with news, that the company was folding.
Jones says that all publications must figure out how to live online. That’s where he’s going to take Vibe once he recovers from the death of his friend and protégé Michael Jackson.
“We gotta get into the 21st century you know,” Jones said. “ “Print and all that stuff is over, we gotta remember that. The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Post Intelligencer. The Miami Herald. They’re over the same way as the record business. We have got to get into this century.”
Damn! Quincy Jones is gangsta. Nothing better to get an OG fired up than to mess with his woman or his money! lolololol
I was heartbroken when I heard VIBE had shut down. However after reading this, I am SOMEWHAT” hopeful. I just dont like the fact that we r losing it as a paper publication but he wants to keep up wit the times so…upward and onward I guesse
[...] “We gotta get into the 21st century you know,” Jones said. “ “Print and all that stuff is over, we gotta remember that. The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Post Intelligencer. The Miami Herald. They’re over the same way as the record business. We have got to get into this century.” (via Egypt) [...]
That magazine started to suck when they put too many lame rappers on the cover.
No it didn’t Vibe is the best hip hop publication out there. What sucked was King. All they did was find the biggest ass they could find every month and plaster it on the cover.
I’ve been reading Vibe Since day 1.I still have those issues from 1993-96.That magazine went down hill when they started putting lame artist on the cover period.I can buy Xxl or the source and read the same lame articles.Quincy have to get that magazine back on track it was at one time rolling stone magazines biggest rival.And I miss King magazine you are not gonna see any of them models in maxim or fhm.