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Media
The Stool Pigeon to close
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 7 February 2013
Arguably the finest purveyor of longform music journalism left, The Stool Pigeon has announced that it is closing down after eight years in operation. The final edition of the free newspaper will be the December/January edition published last year.
In a statement, editor Phil Hebblethwaite said: “I wanted to do much more online, but the newspaper sucked up nearly all our resources and time. It’s proved impossible to do both as well as we’d like and, to be frank, we’re knackered. We haven’t gone bust. We will settle outstanding invoices and, subscribers, you will be reimbursed via PayPal for issues that you have paid for upfront and will now not receive”.
He added: “I still love doing what we do, and perhaps what I’m trying to say is that running out 60,000 copies of a free newspaper six times a year and distributing them to 100 cities/towns across the UK has become untenable, and also increasingly less effective and exciting than publishing journalism online. I’m proud of what we’ve achieved and it’s unquestionably been a fascinating period to cover music. YouTube launched a month after we did in 2005. Everything has changed”.