The Newsroom-Free L.A. Times Mag Hires Familiar Luxury-Mag Names

The new L.A. Times magazine--a name hasn't been settled yet--plans to go the way of the New York Times' T and WSJ Magazine: it'll be a glossy luxury magazine. Last month, the newspaper's then-publisher, David Hiller, forced the newsroom to surrender control of the magazine to the business side.

Even though Mr. Hiller has since been pushed out of the L.A. Times, the business side is staffing up for their new magazine. Annie Gilbar, who was once a host for a show on the Home Shopping Network and an editor of InStyle, will edit the magazine. WWD reports:

To prove that this magazine will be under the control of the publisher, the staff of the magazine "is working out of former Recyclers Classifieds space — vacated after the Times sold its classified circulars last year — geographically separate from the newsroom and without its input, sources said."