Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Rebecca Docter’s last name. Daily Report regrets the error.
Feeling the disruption of the Internet, DIG magazine is ending its run as a weekly print publication and will reappear as free, monthly glossy magazine in June.
In a letter posted to DIG’s website, publisher Wayne T. Lewis says the magazine’s current issue will be its last weekly print edition.
“DIG magazine will be beautiful, glossy and bound. It will have depth—the kind that only a monthly magazine can deliver,” writes publisher Wayne T. Lewis in a letter posted to the magazine’s website. “It will be intimate and personal, filled with stories and photography that will open your eyes in new ways to the city and the interesting people that are all around us.”
Lewis also says that in the years since he began the publication—it was formerly called Tiger Weekly before being rebranded in 2011—the media business has changed, thanks in large part to the Internet.
“Today, daily printed newspapers are on their last legs and a critical mass of consumers have moved to getting their information from a few dominant online platforms. Do you even FaceTweetGramChat, bro?” Lewis asks. “So far, we’ve navigated these waters pretty well—primarily because we’ve not been reluctant to move our sails when we see the wind picking up. From our fun events to Restaurant Week and our daily curated digbr.com, we embrace new ways of doing things.”
The new venture is the magazine feeling “the wind” and turning its back to it. In a separate letter also posted on DIG’s site, Editor-In-Chief Rebecca Docter says the new format will provide for greater depth of stories.
“For the past four months, I have been making my own magazines, with the help of an exceptional team of editors, designers and writers who have made DIG what it is today. So with this new venture, I have no doubt that the new and improved DIG will be better than ever,” Docter writes.
