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The Hollywood Reporter needs a new strategy, but the one it has chosen -- replacing its daily print edition with a glossy weekly magazine aimed at consumers and luxury advertisers -- may be worse than preserving the status quo.

The best indication that Nielsen Business Media was shutting down newspaper-industry trade magazine Editor & Publisher is that it was a trending topic on Twitter all afternoon Thursday. And the magazine, which had documented the ups and downs of newspaper publishing for more than a century,...