Vikki Chowney has announced the closure of Reputation Online. The news follows an announcement by Centaur yesterday that Design Week and New Media Age would close their print editions from this week (both will continue online). That the Reputation Online site can’t cope with the traffic from people wanting to know what’s going on tells you everything that you need to know about the popularity of the community. We’ve mirrored Vikki’s post here about its closure. Please feel free to repost.

It’s with great regret that I write my last post for Reputation Online today.

Some of you might have seen the news yesterday that Centaur, our publisher, has been restructuring to form three core business groups: one covering legal and financial sectors, one the marketing and creative industries and another engineering and human resources.

Thankfully, heritage brands new media age and Design Week will both keep their online presences, but sadly Reputation Online will be closing. The site will remain live however for you all to use as an archive.

As digital PR becomes more important to the broader marketing mix, it will be integrated into both Marketing Week and new media age’s editorial offerings. The former is even set to launch a quarterly special that will focus purely on this area, in conjunction with the PRCA.

The Reputation Online awards in September, as well as this Friday’s Live event will not be running, but those that have already entered or paid will be contacted and refunded their fees as soon as possible.

You’ll still be able to pick up a copy of our biggest project to date – The Reputation Online Top 100 PR Agencies guide – with this week’s final print edition of new media age, and view coverage on nma.co.uk (including a PDF version) tomorrow morning. I’ll be personally sending out copies to all of the agencies included in the guide later today.