Cooking Light Magazine - Changes Coming in 2019! (965 views)

Very interesting! Merging would be better than competing.

Your link didn't work for me. Let's see if this one is better:

www.forbes.com/sites/tonysilber/2018/09/12/meredith-merges-food-magazines-cooking-light-and-eating-well/#213d35d85363

Wow.

I have preferred Eating Well over Cooking Light for years, but I still enjoy my issues of CL. I currently subscribe to both, so I wonder how that will work?

That is very interesting.  I am an Eating Well subscriber  long term.  I  dropped CL when they did their major change  several years ago, and dumbed it down.  also felt I didn't need multiple  food magazines.  not even sure what is still out there in print.   now there are all the niche mags  for  the ketogenic people and anti gluten people clean eating people  etc.  I have  dropped most other  mags  due to diminishing content, like Sunset.     I recently extended my EW subscription for another 2 years.   I still  enjoy a print magazine  especially if there are articles about food related topics  and not  just pages of recipes. I had not heard this, so thank you for posting. 

I've been a bit behind on reading posts and just saw this thread. Wow! That's interesting news.

I was an early subscriber to Eating Well when it showed up in my area, then dropped it and continued my Cooking Light subscription (also since about 2000). I had a Cooks Illustrated and Rachel Ray subscription and dropped those too. Mostly because I realized I can only cook and eat so many recipes in a week/month, and I seemed to gravitate to CL more often than not.

I was there for the Big Change that CL did, and it didn't bother me overly much - I knew it would change again. Lately, I've been really happy with CL and the recipes they've been offering. I think I made 8-10 recipes out of the Sept issue?

It'll be interesting to see what happens - I liked Eating Well, I like CL, hopefully that means I'll like what comes out of the merger. I guess I'll find out in a couple of months.

The one thing I'm not excited to read is the mention of the advertising space in EW in its current format. One of my favorite things about EW has always been that the advertising seemed so much less to me. It definitely was less intrusive to my enjoyment of the magazine. With CL there has always been pages upon pages of ads. Crossing my fingers that Eating Well will not be ruined by this merger!