Another relic from the print journalism world is being put out to pasture.
On Friday afternoon, Oklahoma Today – the state-issued travel and tourism magazine – sent a rather curt email to its few remaining subscribers announcing it will end print publication at the close of this year, wrapping up a 70-year run as the official magazine of the State of Oklahoma.
Here’s a snippet:
Hey, I get why they’re cutting the magazine, but that kind of blows.
I’m a sucker for nostalgia, and whenever I think about Oklahoma Today, I’m always taken back to being a bored kid in the 1990s, thumbing through copies at my grandparents’ house and looking at all the pretty pictures of lakes, sunsets and Oklahoma celebrities. Granted, I don’t think I’ve picked up a copy since then thanks to the internet and smartphones, but especially for our older readers, it’s going to suck to see that go!