HUFFINGTON POST / REUTERS: The glossy magazine, under new ownership since last autumn, bid farewell to its daily paper-and-ink audience in a front-page inset headlined: “VARIETY ANKLES DAILY PUB HUBBUB,” using the Variety-coined verb it typically uses to report departures of studio executives.
“This marks the last official print version of Daily Variety, which reported what happened yesterday,” the magazine said. “For news of what happened two minutes ago, keep going to Variety.com, which will be updated constantly.”
Long considered the bible of the entertainment industry, Variety said it would merge the editorial content and staff of Daily Variety and its weekly international sister publication, known simply as Variety, to form a new weekly printed edition that will debut on March 26 and publish every Tuesday… (more)
