For financial reasons, newspapers and magazines are increasingly ending their print editions and going online-only. Examples include Canada’s La Presse, Finland’s Taloussanomat and magzines like Company and Glamour. By doing so, some have returned to profitability, but with what consequences for their audiences?

In this talk, given at the 2019 asi International Publishing & Data Conference, I explore how the case of the New Musical Express (NME) magazine can help answer this question.