Ecologist ‘merges’ with Resurgence
On May 31st a rather low key announcement was sent out to say that the Ecologist website had ‘merged’ with Resurgence magazine
It talked about the Ecologist ‘returning to its roots in print’ – and most of us who loved the Ecologist didn’t know whether to laugh out loud or cry out loud. It took a full five days for a single newspaper, the Guardian, to come up with the snotty headline Zac Goldsmith sells the Ecologist for £1 and a short article that got quite a few facts wrong, but more importantly missed the point about what had just happened and (potentially) what’s been lost. For what it’s worth I’ve written a small piece about my own experience of the Ecologist which I invite anyone who believes in independent publishing to read (and thanks to everyone who has tweeted it already). It’s here.
Update: Thanks to Greehouse PR for asking me to contribute a few words about the Ecologist for their blog. You can read that piece here.
