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
The Huffington Post's Danny Shea has a post about The Atlantic using multiple city-specific covers to illustrate Richard Florida's March 2009 essay How the Crash Will Reshape America.
Writes Mr. Shea:
The Atlantic is targeting these metro areas with separate covers specifically tailored to their newsstands — proclaiming, 'New York Wins,' 'Chicago Wins,' 'San Read More
There was Ted, an aspiring James Taylor type; Jason, an aspiring TV editor, who occasionally played fiddle to Ted’s guitar; Subieta, a friend of Jason’s from Read More
Felix Dennis, the billionaire publisher of Maxim who was the first person to say the word “cunt” on live British television, cut right to the chase last night at the Columbia Journalism School.“Let’s get the murder thing out of the way,” he said in his refined British accent, alluding to his outrageous, and subsequently retracted Read More
Yesterday, Alpha Media Group--the name for the investors backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners who bought Maxim, Blender and Stuff from Dennis Publishing yesterday for more than $240 million--announced plans to fold Stuff, the shopping-centered T&A men's magazine, and resurrect it as a regular section in its lad mag, Maxim.
Maxim and Blender will be the chief Read More
Military Chic
God, we need a war! And not just a turkey shoot, a bloodless, body-bag-less, media-friendly, bum-of-the-month match like Grenada or Kuwait. No, sir–if we're ever going to convince the twits, nihilists and jackals who run the Information Age that war, Big War, is not a movie, a photo op or an exercise in postmodern Read More
