Media-watchers expressed little surprise at the demise of Asiaweek , with one academic deriding it for adding little to the debate in the English-language media.
Chinese University associate professor in journalism Bryce McIntyre said it was unfortunate that another English media voice had been lost, but Asiaweek had never measured up.
'There are still lots of other English-language magazines around. It's not as if this one contributed a lot to the debate,' he said.
He claimed it had 'weak reporting and editing' and promoted the community too much without any critical analysis.
'For example, they declared Richard Li [Tzar-kai] to be a Superman and he disappeared as quickly as he came.'
He said they had obviously suffered marketing problems because the magazine contained very little advertising, which would not have been enough to cover costs, and most of the cover stories were geared to selling adverts.