It’s been three weeks since Missbehave offed itself and the original battles have bloomed into an all out catfight full of boyfriend beef, hyperbolic threats, catty insults and other PR lessons of what NOT to do. |Jezebel|
The terse mass email from publisher Samantha Moeller to her staff at the now-defunct Missbehave might help explain some of the disgruntled reactions from the newly unemployed. |Gawker|
Two months after printing a final issue and moving completely online, Missbehave is heading the way of its brother publication Mass Appeal and going entirely out of business. Publisher Samantha Moeller publicly announced the news on her personal Hipster Mom blog, saying she was disbanding the quarterly cool girl magazine to focus on mothering her son and second baby on the way. Read more »
Gawker confirms that Mass Appeal will publish no more. With the success of sister magazine Missbehave and Colossal Media’s business booming, putting out the former graffiti turned juvenile lifestyle magazine is just too much of a headache. Says publisher Adrian Moeller, “After 12 years of publishing Mass Appeal Magazine we’ve decided to call it quits on the print edition. We’re putting our resources into our faster growing properties, Missbehave Magazine and Colossal Media. We’re in talks to sell Mass Appeal, and it may resume publishing in the future. We’ll continue the website and special event productions.” |Gawker|
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