New York Times media columnist David Carr says Men’s Journal editor Brad Wieners was fired by Wenner Media chairman Jann Wenner on Friday. Wieners became editor of Men’s Journal in 2005.
Carr posted about the alleged ouster on his Twitter page.
“Jann Wenner, who uses and discards editors like paper plates, Read More
The current Rolling Stone offers an image of Heath Ledger, barefoot, floating Jesus-like on water–and a cover line touting “Famous Failures Back in the Real World.” The magazine isn’t referring to Ledger’s Oscar loss for best actor or Brokeback Mountain‘s best-picture defeat, but to an inside piece on American Idol.
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Jann Wenner has plugged one of the gaping holes of his Men’s Journal clipper. While publisher Carlos Lamadrid jumped overboard yesterday, Wenner gets one in the W column today with the announcement that Tom Foster is Men’s Journal’s new editor in chief. Foster is now the fourth editor in five years to run the magazine Read More
Us Weekly editor Janice Min and Wenner Media agree on what she should be paid: $1.2 million per year, according to a source familiar with Min’s contract negotiations. But they don’t agree about what she can serve for lunch.
Owing to an impasse over staff perks–including catered meals–Min’s contract expired last week before a new Read More
