A new home for C&EN

Magazines like C&EN that are published by professional societies unique and awkward beasts. They were created to provide members of the society with news about their profession itself. Today, thanks internet, reach can extend well beyond those interested readers worldwide. But such magazines don’t fit neatly within own them. Although many consider a magazine main benefit membership, publishing trustworthy, independent journalism is not in society’s skill set. Covering fields where has financial interest be fraught. Adding awkwardness, have become burdens on parent organizations recent years as traditional forms advertising dwindled. long felt these tensions, including one. In 2021, American Chemical Society transferred from its revenue-generating Publications Division newly formed