It started as a magazine assignment: Bill Buford, then-fiction editor of The New Yorker, was tasked to profile celebrity chef Mario Batali.

Unforgiving. In a word, that is the nature of the advertising market magazine publishers are facing heading into the second half.

Not every editor in chief gets to handpick their successor, but then, how often does an editor lure Oprah to their parent company to start a hugely profitable joint venture?

Good Housekeeping editor in chief Ellen Levine , who helped launch O…

NEW YORK — Dennis Publishing today named Jimmy Jellinek editor in chief of Maxim, confirming an exclusive report published earlier on WWD.com.

Jellinek has been editor in chief of Stuff, Maxim’s sister title, since May 2005. Prior…

Howell Raines, the fly-fishing, zone-flooding former executive editor of The New York Times, is a true original.

To most people in the magazine business, hardship is trying to get a cab on Sixth Avenue in the rain, and risk means ordering sushi from a sketchy takeout place.

Don’t expect Martha Stewart’s newest magazine to look much like the ones that

NEW YORK — Hearst Magazines has named Joanna Coles as editor in chief of Marie Claire. Coles was previously executive editor of More.

Lesley Jane Seymour, editor in chief since 2001, is leaving the company. This is the…

Photographers, as a rule, don’t worry too much about efficiency.

What’s behind the latest rash of new magazine failures, and items from the Memo Pad.

After two years of trying and failing to establish itself in the market, Cargo, the men’s shopping magazine, is shutting down. Conde Nast editorial director Thomas Wallace broke the news to the staff in a meeting Monday afternoon, said sources at the…

NEW YORK – The Atlantic Monthly didn’t even have an editor in chief in 2005, but that didn’t stop it from racking up eight National Magazine Award nominations, announced this morning by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The magazine got the…

Where’s season two?

The magazine business may be challenged, but don’t slap a toe tag on it yet.

With the recent successful conclusion of “Miss Seventeen,” her MTV reality series, Seventeen editor in chief Atoosa Rubenstein can finally stake her claim to being a multimedia personality.