Two long-running luxury magazines will be going off the shelves in 2020, Page Six has learned.
We’re told that LA Confidential and Capitol File — which cover high-end lifestyle in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, respectively — will no longer be published.
They’ll be replaced by online editions, which we’re told will be “national brands,” rather than focusing on a particular city. They’ll keep their names.
We’re told there were layoffs “in the single digits” as a result.
Their publisher, Modern Luxury, bought those brands — along with a slew of other luxury-market books, including Hamptons and Miami’s Ocean Drive — in 2017 when it bought Niche Media as part of its acquisition of GreenGale publishing, which had picked up Niche three years earlier.
We’re told that the layoffs were the result of the final stage of merging the Niche and Modern Luxury operations. Insiders say that the companies are now “fully integrated.”
LA Confidential had been around since 2003, and Capitol File launched in 2005.