Museums are benefitting from the decline of long-form print journalism according to Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic, who spoke to Dezeen's Marcus Fairs in this talk we filmed for Molteni&C.

Talking the Dezeen editor-in-chief at Molteni&C's flagship London store during London Design Festival last month, Sudjic reflected on the recent spate of prominent design journalists choosing to leave traditional journalism to work at museums.

"There's a generation of journalists your age who have moved out of magazines and into museums," he says to Fairs in the movie.

Sudjic references Disegno editor Johanna Agerman Ross's recent move to London's V&A museum to work as a curator alongside fellow former journalist Kieran Long, who joined the V&A in 2012.
Before launching Dezeen in 2006, Fairs was founding editor of Icon magazine, which Agerman Ross and Long both previously worked at. Other prominent design journalists who worked at the magazine include Justin McGuirk and Christopher Turner, who are now chief curator at the Design Museum and director of the London Design Biennale respectively.

"I think I'm the only senior person from the original Icon team who is still in journalism," Fairs observes. "Is there an economic reason for that" Is it that people can't make a living in media anymore""

Museums do not pay better than magazines, says Sudjic, because "smart people like working in them". However, he suggests the reason for th...