On January 29th, Larry Dubrow wrote an article on AdAge.com called “Magazines Worth Saving,” among which he included Playboy:
Playboy has featured some wonderful journalism in recent months (true-crime profiles don’t come much darker and more enticing than Richard Stratton’s recent piece on James “Whitey” Bulger) and continues to showcase as many A-list journalists as any mag out there. When Playboy shuts down shop within the next 18 months, GQ oughta pounce on the editor(s) who have been commissioning the mag’s non-nudie content.