Manhattan Media

Radar isn't the only magazine whose staff finds itself out of work today. According to an e-mail Manhattan Media CEO Tom Allon sent to an undisclosed group of recipients, 02138, the Harvard-centric lifestyle magazine launched in 2006 and acquired by Manhattan Media in May, will be suspending its publication.

From the e-mail:

Manhattan Media has decided to suspend publication of 02138. There is no question that, since the acquisition of the magazine in May earlier this year, a great team of editors, marketers, salespeople and designers have worked hard to re-launch the business. Nor is there a question that our views on the possibilities of a mix of media serving to inform, entertain and network alumni of leading universities have driven us to back that team to the hilt.  read more »

In May, Manhattan Media, publishers of the New York Press, City Hall, and other local New York papers, acquired 02138 and announced plans to reposition the Harvard lifestyle magazine.

Today, another release touts several hires at the magazine. George Lois, creator of Esquire's most iconic magazine covers of the 1960s and Pentagram's Luke Hayman have been tapped to redesign the magazine. Jamie Hooper, who launched Giant magazine in 2004, will be 02138's new publisher. And David Blum, the editorial director of Manhattan Media and the editor in chief of the New York Press, will become editor-in-chief of 02138 when it resumes printing with its December/January issue.  read more »

02138, the lifestyle magazine for alumni who attended college "near Boston—um, in Cambridge" has been sold to Manhattan Media, publishers of The New York Press, City Hall, The Chelsea Clinton News, and other papers. O1238 was launched in 2006 with the backing of Atlantic Media's David Bradley.  read more »