Study: Magazine Web sites are now feeding print

Columbia Journalism Review conducted a survey of magazines’ print and Web editors from a sample of 3,000 consumer magazines. Here’s one finding (that may not surprise you): 58 percent said there is no copy editing on their Web site, or that it is less rigorous than in the print edition. Another finding from the survey is that at many magazines print is no longer the driving force. “More than a few respondents reported, as one put it, that ‘instead of developing stories for print and th…