IT Week Has Closed.

As we reported yesterday, confirmation from Press Gazette that IT week has closed/merged with Computing. Right decision taken five years too late.

I was sent this quote from the Reed internal bragging machine;

"The decision did not surprise Computer Weekly's head of display sales Duncan Kirk who has seen the market getting tougher and tougher: "There is no doubt that as the weakest of the three weeklies IT Week has suffered the most and of course we haven't exactly made life easier!""

Nothing like a bit of gloating as your rivals die and lose their jobs. But watch out - as they say in the National Lottery, it could be you next.

IT Week to Close?

Rumours as yet unproven that IT Week is about to close. This was the title launched ten years ago by Ziff Davis, then acquired by VNU, which itself was acquired by Incisive. It never made sense to own Computing and IT Week and notwithstanding the merits or otherwise of the title, one has to conclude, that if true, VNU/Incisive is facing the inevitable truth that what was always a daft idea (buying IT week) looks bonkers in a downturn.

More to come when I hear anything.