Just a few days after its publisher the Nielsen Co. announced that it would close the magazine at the end of the year, newspaper trade Editor & Publisher announced it would be publishing its January issue, “due to overwhelming reader and advertiser demand.”

The pub thinks this decision shows there may still be hope for it to rise again — just look at the headline of the story E&P wrote about it: “‘E&P’ To Publish January Issue — Hope Remains?”

After Nielsen’s surprising decision on Thursday to close the pub, E&P first decided to publish the articles from its upcoming January issue — already completed — online until January 1, the day the title was set to close for good. Now, subscribers will also receive a print version of the issue, due around January 4.

And because of such a huge outpouring of support from the industry, readers and advertisers, E&P staffers are still holding out hope, telling readers to “stay tuned for updates” about the magazine’s fate.

‘E&P’ To Publish January Issue — Hope Remains?

Previously: Could E&P Have Been Saved?

Several months after the heroic escape of New York Times reporter David Rohde from his Afghan captors, another Times reporter has been rescued from Taliban kidnappers thanks to a harrowing military raid that killed his interpreter and a British commando.

Stephen Farrell and his interpreter Sultan Munadi were seized Saturday while reporting on the aftermath of NATO air strikes in Afghanistan in a village south of Kunduz.

Early Wednesday, Farrell was rescued by a military raid on the compound where he and Munadi were being held. Farrell managed to escape unharmed, but Munadi was killed.

Like Rohde’s ordeal, this scary story not only brings to light the very real danger that foreign correspondents can find themselves in every day, but also reveals a press black out that kept the news of Farrell and Munadi’s abduction under wraps.

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Over the weekend, news broke that Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter David Rohde had escaped from captivity in Afghanistan, where he had been held for the past seven months.

The news brought relief to a community overwhelmed by stories of violence against and arrests of journalists in Iran and the recent conviction of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea.

But after the relief subsided, other questions arose. Why had no one reported Rohde’s kidnapping? According to Editor & Publisher editor Greg Mitchell, at least 40 news outlets knew about Rohde’s captivity, but they decided not to broadcast the news at the request of the Times. Mitchell said he worried that keeping the kidnapping a secret would jeopardize other reporters heading to the region, but ultimately decided it was the best cause of action in this case.

“I wonder now if a great debate will break out over media ethics in not reporting a story involving one of their own when they so eagerly rush out piece about nearly everything else,” Mitchell said in a post on The Huffington Post. “I imagine some may claim that the blackout would not have held if a smaller paper, not the mighty New York Times, had been involved. Or is saving this life (actually two, there was a local reporter also snatched) self-evidently justification enough?”

Did the press make the right decision to not report David Rohde’s kidnapping?(online surveys)

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