The Editors Guild Magazine turned four in January. We’ve come a long way, evolving from a small blue-and-white newsletter to a full-color publication that is respected all over the country, reprinted in other journals and used in college courses. And now the time has come for it to change again. Beginning with the May/June issue, a new team will produce and manage the magazine — this issue is our last.

Our goal has been to inform and inspire you, the members of this vibrant community. We wanted to help all Guild members share in each other’s creative achievements, to make sure every member had access to the latest information about our rapidly changing tools, and to help members learn as much as possible about the Guild.

We built the magazine over time, aspiring to make each issue better than the one before. Our unusual approach was to pair a volunteer writer who was an expert in the subject at hand with an editor from our staff, and then to collaboratively develop and polish every article in much the same way that Guild members continually refine their films. We deliberately avoided the kind of trade journalism where stories are really "advertorials" — press releases in disguise. And we tried to speak to all branches of this increasingly diverse organization.

We set out to give the post community and the world at large a new image of the Editors Guild. Thanks to the dedication of ad agency John McCarthy and Associates, advertisers responded, and as a result of their support we produced the magazine for less than half the cost of the newsletter in its last year of publication.

We always conceived of the magazine as a community effort. We could never have done this work without the help of our writers, who gave so generously of their time and expertise. Thanks to all of you, including Michael Amundsen, Corey Bailey, Bart Barisano, Damian Begley, Alan Bell, Phil Benson, Brian Berdan, Craig Berkey, Glenn Berkovitz, Bob Berman, Louis Bertini, Harry Peck Bolles, George Borghi, Robert Brakey, David Bruskin, Tom Bryant, Bonnie Buckner, Michael Buday, Todd Busch, Greg Cameron, Daniel Allan Carlin, Steven B. Cohen, Tom Costain, Joanne D’Antonio, Greg Dean, Bill Elias, Michael Fink, Daniel Fort, Peter Frank, Patrick Gallagher, Scott Gershin, Bert Glatstein, Mia Goldman, Lewis Goldstein, Bruce Green, Bob Grieve, Brooks Harris, Craig Henighan, Ving Hershon, Sharon Smith Holley, Hanson Hsu, Marti Humphrey, Paul Huntsman, Michael Jablow, Scott Janush, Michael Jay, Bill Johnston, Larry Jordan, R.J. Kizer, Alexandra Komisaruk, Matt Kregor, Bobby Lea, Carol Littleton, Eileen Lottman, Pam Malouf, Charles Maynes, Hudson Miller, Rick Mitchell, Nick Moenssens, Robert Moore, Chris Munro, Bruce Nazarian, Myron Nettinga, Aram Nigoghossian, Rob Nokes, J.T. O’Neal, Colleen Paeff, Tony Pilkington, Steven Ramirez, Karen Rasch, Mitchel Resnick, Shane Ross, Shie Rozow, Gregg Rudloff, Zed Saeed, Victoria Sampson, Larry Schalit, Carl Sealove, Andrew Seklir, Rob Sephton, Eugene Shapiro, Maddy Shirazi, Suzanne Spangler, Kit Stolz, Ted Troll, Jack Tucker, Charles Unger, Juli Vizza, Mark Wlodarkiewicz, William Webb, Ralph Winters and Sidney Wolinsky.

Our regular contributors deserve special acknowledgement, because they sustained us through the years. Thank you, Ben Bardens, Jeff Burman, Patrick Gregston, Norm Hollyn, David Kim, Marty Levenstein, Douglas Murray, Jayme Parker, Leslie Shatz, Holly Sklar, Andy Somers, Rainer Standke, Erich Stratmann and Dave Whittaker.

We’re grateful, too, for the terrific work of our teammates: editor Andrea Van Hook, who created so many valuable articles, photographer Alec Boehm whose practiced eye helped enliven our pages over and over again, printer Sergio Rangel, administrative director Lisa Dosch, proofreader Diane Adler and art coordinator Leslie Kahle. Thanks also to the Academy Award nominees and everyone else who took part in interviews and conversations, and to the many Guild staffers who contributed to these pages.

The magazine began its life when Donn Cambern was president and it could not have grown in the way it did without his support. We offer him our special thanks.

Most important, we are grateful to you, the readers, for letting us become part of your lives during the last four years. Building this publication has been a very exciting process. We offer best wishes to the new team and urge you to contribute your ideas, suggestions and feedback. Only with your support can the magazine continue to grow.