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."
2 comments:
Your post last month about your departure from Entrepreneur Magazine was a good read. In your comments you mention a few other pubications including INC. I was considering a subscription to Entrepreneur, but now that I hear this, I would like to move elsewhere with my money. What publication whould you recomend for a young entrepreneur in the making???
Thanks!
Thanks much. Yes, I believe you'd be wasting your money with Entrepreneur. You don't want to take advice about running and starting your business from people who aren't even clear about the basics and ethics of journalism.
I like Fast Company and INC. They're published by the same company, and you can tell the editing and reporting is a couple levels above what you'd get in Entrepreneur. I personally also like the embattled Business Week, which always seemed to be on top of things before other publications, and Forbes.
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