[2] The magazine's editors and staff began to focus exclusively on its web site,[2] which included an archive of past stories and an almanac of important Pacific Island people.

[2] On October 1, 2008, Fijian journalist Ulamila Kurai Wragg was appointed the new managing editor of Pacific Magazine.

[1] Wragg, who was previously the Cook Islands correspondent for Pacific Magazine, worked as the managing editor from her home base in Rarotonga.

[1] The senior management team which Wragg joined also included Florence Betham, the magazine's associate publisher who hailed from Tafuna, American Samoa.

[4] The suspension of operations left open the possibility that Pacific Magazine could be relaunched in the future once economic conditions improve.