Breaking: Jann Wenner Erratic, Difficult To Work For
Also Just In: So Is George Steinbrenner

pinkslip.JPGDid you know that Jann Wenner has a tendency of hiring people and then firing them less than a year later? Of course you did. But in case you forgot and/or stopped caring (because seriously, who reads Rolling Stone or Men's Journal anyway?) Keith Kelly is here to remind you just how many bright-eyed, bushy-tailed MF editors in chief have been steered towards the exits before they even had a chance to unpack.

Wenner has basically been averaging one editor per year, and whomever he hires will be the magazine's third editor in 12 months.

After bouncing Michael Caruso - and then getting into a court fight - he settled on Tom Foster, former Men's Health feature editor. When that didn't work out, Wenner went to his Rolling Stone roster and moved Kaminisky into the top job.

Obviously, it doesn't end there.

Kaminsky left after 11 months to take the top editorial job at Maxim, but he did stay in place long enough to get the November issue out the door.

Said one knowledgeable source, "The problem with the job is that you are taking it for the severance package."

And the source almost has it right. In fact, the "problem" is having to work for a capricious micromanaging egotist. The severance package is just how you sleep at night.

Sep 26, 2007 · Link · 1 Response
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    No. 1 medianews says:

    Hopefully for Matt's sake he won't hire his boyfriend Neal Boulton.

    Posted: Sep 26, 2007 at 2:56 pm
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