The Far Eastern Economic Review will be closed in December

The monthly Far Eastern Economic Review will be closed in December

Leading Asian magazine to close

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
By Vaudine England
BBC News, Hong Kong

One of Asia's leading print publications, the Far Eastern Economic Review, is to be closed in December.

Dow Jones, now owned by News Corporation, had made the once cult-like news weekly into a monthly opinion magazine.

But the company said the continued loss of readers and advertising revenues made its existence unsustainable.

The closure of the magazine, founded in 1946, marks the end of an era for challenging journalism in Asia.

The Far Eastern Economic Review grew from a few black and white pages in the 1940s, into a bulky, weekly, must-read across Asia by the 1980s.

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