Harry Allen on the Death of VIBE

Isaac Fitzgerald bio ↓  ·  July 3rd, 2009  ·  filed under Media, music

Harry Allen, Hip Hop activist and writer for The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, has a touching and insightful piece about the death of VIBE magazine on his blog Media Assassin.

Allen, who was a freelance writer for VIBE for over a decade, describes his final visit to the magazine’s headquarters as they shut down, and looks back on the magazine’s triumphs as well as its flaws in “My Final Visit as VIBE Flatlines.”

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Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals by the age of 25. He has also written for AlterNet, McSweeney's, and Mother Jones. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Follow him on Twitter. More from this author →

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