Vibe magazine is closing immediately, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. In a memo to staff members announcing the closure, Steve Aaron, chief
of the Vibe Media Group, wrote that for months, the company tried in
vain to either find new investors or “to restructure the huge debt on
our small company.”

To think, after starting out as a print magazine 17 years ago, ths hip-hop culture mag would find themselves reporting the death of Michael Jackson as their own requim.