Magazines are not an endangered species, says Hearst president

A "self-immolating print media has taken to reporting on itself in doomsday terms", says Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines. But the American magazine is not an endangered species, she writes in an AdAge article.Magazine readership was up 14% last year, she points out (while TV and newspaper lost viewers and readers). The number of magazines that suspended in 2008 was a "minuscule" 32