Jann Wenner’s editor-less Men’s Journal has just lost its publisher too. Carlos Lamadrid, who had overseen a 124-page jump in ad pages this year at Wenner’s adventure lifestyle monthly, has ankled Wenner for Jane, where he will be vice president and publisher. The move follows the departure earlier this month of editor in chief Michael Read More
For the second time this month, Jann Wenner has lost a high-profile editor. On the heels of Michael Caruso’s sudden departure from Men’s Journal, Bob Wallace, the editor in chief of Wenner Books, left the company last week. According to Wenner insiders, Wallace and Wenner had clashed over the limited marketing and promotion resources being Read More
Paging Quincy Jones! The big head-scratch at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism took a starry “We Are the World” turn on Sept. 23 when new president Lee Bollinger announced his “task force” to examine the school’s future. And wowzers, the names: Ken Auletta, Bob Woodward, Anna Quindlen, Nick Lemann, Sylvia Nasar and Clarence Read More
By sunrise on Oct. 26, the losses were already steep for St. Martin’s Press and its Thomas Dunne Books imprint. By then, the house had lost 90,000 books’ worth of sunk costs and a good deal of face after it was revealed a few days earlier that J.H. Hatfield, author of Fortunate Son: George W. Read More
