Word: felkerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...million. The paper's principal owners, Millionaire City Councilman Carter Burden and Voice President Bartle Bull, received $800,000 in cash and 600,000 shares of New York Magazine Co. stock, which amounts to 34% of the outstanding shares. For New York Editor and Publisher Clay Felker, 45, who is also president of the parent company, acquisition of the Voice added a new dimension to his journalistic career. Felker joined Time Inc. in 1951 and worked as a LIFE correspondent in New York and Washington before moving to Esquire as feature editor in 1957. Hired as editor...
...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...
...profile by Quinn's former Post colleague (and now former friend) Aaron Latham, she was portrayed as a sassy bundle of ambition who was more interested in capital sex than politics. Quinn called the story an "incredible hatchet job" and at tributed it to New York Editor Clay Felker's resentment because she recently turned down a job offer from him. According to Quinn, Felker said, "Sally, you were born to be a star, and you should have let me make you one," then slammed down the phone. Replies Felker: "Sally is a goddamn liar...