NASAWatch is reporting this:http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2008/11/sad_day_for_avi.html
Quote from: psloss on 11/20/2008 09:13 pmNASAWatch is reporting this:http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2008/11/sad_day_for_avi.htmlNo class. If AWST had class, it would have kept Covalt on staff until Shuttle's end at least. OTOH, I can see why the magazine might want to put less focus on the Cape and KSC, since those sites are becoming less relevant in the total worldwide spaceflight story. For example, there have been more orbital launch attempts from Kwajalein this year (so far) than from Cape Canaveral, but AWST doesn't have a Kwajalein space office. More from Sea Launch Odyssey too. And Vandenberg. And Kourou. And Plesetsk. And so on. The future promises no shuttle, a long gap to Ares/Orion, and a move of some of the dwindling number of Cape launches to Wallops Island. - Ed Kyle
Print media is dead or dying, so they will be in danger of the same if they focus on web coverage that has no focus.
Postscript -- as NASAWatch notes, Craig Covault is back:http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2009/01/craig_covault_i.html