I love this. I write below that Entrepreneur magazine's editor-in-chief didn't do her job, lied, dropped the ball with at least one advertiser, once wasn't aware of what was in her own magazine, passed up story ideas that ended up in Forbes, Wired and Portfolio, hired people whose skills she wasn't fully clear about, and signed off on edits that weren't even made yet. I write that Entrepreneur, a national title with 600,000-circulation, lost at least one editorial staffer to a third-tier city/regional giveaway because it pays better. I write that when I told Cosper a person she was promoting was "a monkey with a keyboard" she did not refute it. And publisher Ryan Shea, whose response to the editorial staff's June exodus was verbose (and poorly thought out, because it opened up a flood of comments) has practically nothing to say. No denials.This is what he tells Folio:
"We terminated his employment for cause. As you know there are two sides to every story."
So what's the other side? You mean the man who had a bizarre explanation for why most of his editorial staff left en masse last month (he blamed it on loyalty to an editor who hadn't been at the mag for more than a year) doesn't have more to say? (Funny, too, how Shea trumpeted a better class of editorial staffer and a new design -- with the July cover I wrote used alongside his comments). In California, by the way, it doesn't take much to trigger "cause."
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