George Magazine to Cease Publishing in March

George, the political magazine founded by John F. Kennedy Jr., will cease publication in March, the publisher said. The magazine has a circulation of 500,000, but couldn’t attract enough advertising to stay afloat, said French conglomerate Lagardere’s magazine publishing arm, Hachette Filipacchi Magazines. “The recent softening of the ad market has only compounded George’s situation,” Hachette Chief Executive Jack Kliger said. About 40 staff members will be affected by the shutdown. Kennedy, who founded the magazine in September 1995, was killed in July 1999 with his wife, Carolyn, and her sister when the light plane he was piloting crashed in the Atlantic off Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.