Remember when Women's Health took the arbitrarily-decided 2nd place in Ad Age's Top Ten list last month? As it turns out, just because you run one of the only successful magazines in a spiraling industry doesn't mean that you know what you're doing.

Case in point: David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of both Men and Women's Health fired founding editor Tina Johnson when he took over the reins mid-year, but her name was still listed during the Ad Age awards ceremony. Whoops. Hopefully it won't effect the magazine's someone miraculous ad count.

Now on to brighter things: Fitness editor Denise Brodey may be in line for the open spot at Health.

It took less than two months after taking the reigns of Women's Health for Dave Zinczenko, the Men's Health editor and new editorial director of Rodale's group, to get rid of the lady mag's founding editor Tina Johnson. She helped launch the spin-off and steer it toward its current standing, as a well-read and well-regarded book in its category, and Zinczenko's ousting her this week will surely disturb a few of Johnson's followers. No matter, it's likely going to follow with some other staff shake ups.

Officially, Johnson left the magazine voluntarily. But either way, her departure isn't the only revolution at the mag:

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