14 boating magazines, 1 owner

by Peter Swanson
The Active Interest Media Marine Group—my old shop—has been sold off to the newest magazine empire in the country, a company called Firecrown. As a result, most major national boating magazines are now under a single owner, trucking family scion Craig Fuller.

The sale was announced here.

It’s hard to say what this will mean for boaters who read—probably not a whole lot. However, the folks putting out the magazines will almost certainly be happier for a while. That can be good for readers in the way that higher quality milk was supposed to come from contented cows. – Full report