Time Survivors Rage At Jet-Setting Editor
Time's international editor Michael Elliott is an up-and-comer, second only to U.S. editor Rich Stengel at the magazine. But leading an iron-fisted gutting of global editions made him bitter enemies.
Passive-Aggressive Rick Stengel Announces New 'Time' Hire
Salon's Michael Scherer is leaving his position there as Washington correspondent to join Time magazine as political correspondent and teacher's pet. "Michael represents the new TIME correspondent: adept on-line, on-air and in print," said Rick Stengel, in an email to staff today. We are quite sure that none of the…
'Time' Deputy M.E. Priscilla Painton Quits
According to this memo from Time magazine managing editor Rick Stengel, his deputy, Priscilla Painton, is headed out the door, in search of her "Act Two." Painton joined Time in 1989 and later edited the magazine's "Nation" section. Painton's exit marks yet another departure of a "Time/life-er," increasingly rare…
It was a big deal when Time magazine's Rick Stengel sent a memo to the whole staff, saying that "I suspect that some of you regard writing for TIME.com as an obligation, and not what you came to TIME to do. But... [i]f you care about what you do - and I know you do - then you need to display your talent, your…
Have you forgotten that it's Audit Bureau of Circulation time? Whee! People's sales declined, probably because a steady diet of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears grows tiring after a while; we need some hot new celebrities to hit the rehab circuit and, sorry, Amy Winehouse just won't cut it. Over on the…
Rupert Murdoch is on Time managing editor Rick Stengel's shortlist for 'Person of the Year.' "At this early stage, just after the first half, Murdoch is on Stengel's 'shortlist,' along with New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, Barry Bonds (assuming he breaks Hank Aaron's all-time…
'Time' Switches To The Metric System
Is Time managing editor Rick Stengel attempting to gently nudge the U.S. to the metric system? A new mandate was handed down this morning, telling writers and editors that from now on, all measurements will be expressed in "both imperial and metric equivalents." Clearly, this is a losing battle Stengel is waging, but…
'Time' Shoving Its Reluctant Writers Online
Yesterday, Time Inc. chairman and chief executive Ann Moore did a Q&A with the Wall Street Journal. One of the things she said was:
The Time 100
Tourists and teenagers outside the Time Warner Center last night clutched digital cameras, all hoping to get their very own photograph of John Mayer or America Ferrara as they arrived to celebrate the Time 100—the Most Influential People in the World! (One assumed that crowd was less interested in arrivals such as Dr.…
'Time' 100: John Mayer Shaped Our World
This week's Time features the fourth annual installment of THE TIME 100: The Most Influential People In The World! It's a pretty thick issue, which is all the more remarkable given the crappy paper stock the magazine uses. Anyway, who are the folks Time's editors think are "transforming our world"? Well, Justin…
Media Bubble: YOU Are Kind Of Creeping Us Out
Breaking: New Editor At TIME.com
What with the recent changes in publication schedule over at Time, Rick Stengel has pulled TIME.com editor Steve Koepp back into the world of print. His replacement? Josh Tryangiel, the current music critic. If Time is looking to appeal to a younger audience (and, really, any audience would be a younger audience) this…
New 'Time' Managing Editor Channeling Bonnie Fuller
We don't want to spoil the article for you, but Key Number Two is "Meet Palestine at the door wearing only your apron!"
The Stengeling of 'Time': Day 2
What do we learn the morning after?
You Can Take the Drinks Cart Out of Time Inc.
We also got our hands on John Huey's staff memo announcing Rick Stengel's appointment as managing editor of Time, and, for the most part, it reads as a first-person version of the public press release. But there's one line, down near the bottom, the caught our eye:
BREAKING: New 'Time' M.E. is Rick Stengel
Press release just out. Relevant details: Stengel is a longtime Time writer and editor who has been chief speechwriter for Bill Bradley's ill-fated presidential bid, and, most recently, president of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. A Princeton man like Jim Kelly and a Rhodes scholar like Kelly's…
