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...early as last November, reporters heard rumors that Brill was out to do a hatchet job on Jimmy Carter. Brill maintains, "I expected it to be a positive piece, but it didn't turn out that way." Says Clay Felker, editor of New York magazine, where Brill is a contributing editor: "He's a fantastic reporter, a trained lawyer who is not afraid to look at documents for the facts." A Washington-based political correspondent has another opinion. "Brill is a hit man," he says with concern. "He's the liberal enforcer...
Nevertheless, she still devours books on business subjects and seeks the counsel of such friends as Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler and Clay Felker, editor of New York magazine. Says Felker: "The Gannett chain may make more money, but they don't have her concern for quality." Graham has maintained the quality by preserving generous editorial budgets, but she wants to raise the company's profit margin from last year...
...nasty, vindictive and loud-and that was when he was sober.") Reeves typically refuses to run with the pack. While much of the press was still awed by George McGovern's primary victories early in 1972, Reeves was already debunking his fellow liberal. Says New York Editor Clay Felker: "Dick says things that may not go down well on the Georgetown circuit...
...Since then, he has taken some new recruits-including Editor Michael Parrish, former managing director of the monthly San Francisco, and Consulting Editor Rosalie Muller Wright, former editor of womenSports-across the country to talk publishing with some successful pros. Among them have been New York magazine Editor Clay Felker, New Times Publisher George Hirsch, Ms. Co-Founder Gloria Steinem and Sacramento Bee Managing Editor Frank McCulloch, a former TIME bureau chief who successfully launched the innovative monthly Learning. Coppola did not like what he heard. "Publishing is worse than the movie business-the egos, the feeling that...
...these positions, Felker made his mark as an innovator, but he insists that he has no plans for "intermingling" the Voice and New York and promises that differences between the two will be preserved: "They're passionate about some things, we're passionate about others. They can pound away week after week on a single issue in a way that we can't." To reports that he is considering a nationwide network of city magazines, which could use articles from both New York and the Voice, Felker admits that "it's theoretically possible. There are three...