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    By John Koblin 4/10/09 8:23pm

    More Layoffs at Alpha Media Group: Maxim Cuts Staff Including Steve Garbarino and Chris Wilson

    Alpha Media Group has laid off several employees at Maxim, The Observer has learned. According to one insider, 6-8 people were let go, among them deputy editor Chris Wilson and editor-at-large Steve Garbarino.

    News of the layoffs comes three weeks after Alpha Media folded music magazine Blender and moved its editor-in-chief, Read More

    By Matt Haber 3/27/09 1:12pm

    Hello, I Must Be Going: Blender’s Levy Named Ninth (Or Tenth!) Editor of Maxim

    Yesterday, Advertising Age‘s Nat Ives broke the news that Alpha Media is folding Blender and moving Joe Levy, the magazine’s editor in chief, over to Maxim. This move is displacing James Kaminsky, who’s held the job as capo di laddie since 2007.

    Being editor in chief of Maxim seems a bit like being Read More

    By John Koblin 3/26/09 4:08pm

    Blender Folds; Joe Levy to Take Over Maxim

    Blender magazine folded today, and its editor, Joe Levy, is taking over editing duties at Maxim.

    Stephen Duggan, the CEO of Alpha Media Group, wrote in a memo this morning to staffers, that “with great sadness, we will also announce that Blender magazine will cease publication with the April issue. Since 2001, Read More

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