Printed Magazine Launches Outpace Closures

NEW YORK—In the first nine months of 2011, 200 magazines were launched, up from the 176 launched during the same period of 2010, according to MediaFinder.com, an online database of U.S. and Canadian publications. During the same period, 128 titles folded, up only slightly from the 127 that folded in the first nine months of 2010.