JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A little over a month ago, Folio Weekly announced it was shutting down due to an economic freefall. A week ago, that changed when it announced it was making a comeback as Folio Weekly 2.0. On Monday, News4Jax learned that its Attorney John Phillips whos giving the magazine a second life. As first reported by News4Jaxs news partner the Jacksonville Daily Record, Phillips is hiring writers and staff, and he hopes to have a print issue out in July. Were hiring, looking for people to give the rich diversity of Folio Weekly and bring it back such that people can tell stories and celebrate the positive in Jacksonville, he told the Daily Record. pic.twitter.com/mzA61lYibM Folio Weekly (@folioweekly) June 9, 2020Phillips told the Record he hopes to create an archive of Folio stories that will be available online.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Folio Weekly, the popular Jacksonville alternative weekly magazine that announced it was shutting down last month, is making a comeback. The magazine posted on its Twitter account Monday afternoon that Folio would return as Folio 2.0. Bolder than ever.It had not yet announced specifics of a return and said in a message information would be coming in the future. The magazines publisher, Sam Taylor, announced on May 5 that the publication had been crushed by the economic freefall of this outbreak and was closing after 33 years of work. Folio announced in late March that it would shift from a weekly to a monthly publication on April 1.