Even Oprah can’t overcome the bad times on the magazine rack.
Hearst Magazines, which has already shuttered two of its titles this year, says it will fold O at Home, a quarterly spin-off of O, The Oprah Magazine. 

The liquidation firm that took over Digital Railroad says the technology company’s servers will be erased and sold, destroying the data that hundreds of professional photographers paid to have safeguarded.

The New York Times will no longer publish Play magazine, a quarterly Sunday newspaper insert that was known for high-quality portraiture photography. The Times reported the closure on November 17, two weeks after Play’s November 2 issue, which will be the last.

Time Inc.’s picture brand LIFE is taking a giant leap into the digital future by making its vast photo archive available for free public perusal on Google. 

As a slump in advertising continues to drag down the publishing industry, shelter magazines have been the first titles to collapse.

The latest is Cottage Living, which Time Inc. is shutting down. It becomes the fourth major shelter magazine to fold in the past 12 months. News reports say most of the magazine’s 47 staffers will be laid off.

The U.S. military refuses to release an Iraqi freelance photojournalist who works for the Reuters news agency, despite an order by an Iraqi court that he be released from detention.