{"id":1731,"date":"2009-06-09T17:20:01","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T00:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2009-06-09T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T00:20:01","slug":"the_news_from_jazztimes_its_tr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/06\/the_news_from_jazztimes_its_tr\/","title":{"rendered":"The News From JazzTimes: It&#8217;s True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following announcement is posted on the <em>JazzTimes<\/em> web site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Important Message From <em>JazzTimes<\/em> Management<br \/>\nBy <em>JazzTimes<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To our readers and members of the jazz community:<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p><em>JazzTimes<\/em> has temporarily suspended publication of the magazine and has furloughed the bulk of its staff while it finalizes a sale of its assets. The brand and operation will undergo reorganization and restructuring in order to remain competitive in the current media climate. Print publishing is expected to resume as soon as a sale is closed. New information and statements will be posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazztimes.com\"target=\"_blank\">www.jazztimes.com<\/a> as they become available.<br \/>\nThank you for your patience during this challenging period.<br \/>\n<em>JazzTime<\/em>s Management<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the suspension last year of the Canadian magazine <em>Coda<\/em>, the absorption of Britain&#8217;s <em>Jazz Review<\/em> by <em>Jazz Journal<\/em> and the conversion of <em>JazzIz<\/em> to a quarterly, jazz listeners&#8217; choices of major print information about the music are disappearing fast. The question, unanswerable at this point, is whether web sites and blogs can provide the same depth and width of coverage generations have received from jazz magazines. This is a small manifestation of the larger challenge facing free societies as newspapers shrink or disappear. A democracy can only suffer from diminution and fragmentation of the flow of information upon which we base our judgments.<br \/>\nLet us hope that <em>JazzTime<\/em>s survives its reorganization. More important, let us hope that we do not lose news organizations serving mass audiences. They help bind us together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following announcement is posted on the JazzTimes web site: Important Message From JazzTimes Management By JazzTimes To our readers and members of the jazz community: JazzTimes has temporarily suspended publication of the magazine and has furloughed the bulk of its staff while it finalizes a sale of its assets. The brand and operation will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}