Feisty magazine's end raises questions over Hong Kong media's future

New online startups should learn from demise of Next

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Hong Kong's controversial Next magazine debuted in 1990 and added a Taiwan edition in 2001, but saw advertising revenues dwindle in recent years.

As Hong Kong remembers the bloody crackdown on protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989, a feisty tabloid weekly born in its aftermath has been shuttered.

The recent move by Hong Kong's Next Magazine to cease publication marks the end of an era and the fall of a fiercely anti-Beijing publication that refused to adapt to the city's changing political climate. Its demise is also evidence of how a once-leading print publication can fail to cope with the disruption of the digital age and social media.

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