'New York,' 'New York,' It's a Helluva a Mag
New York lost a features editor last month and an articles editor in September. Now it's staffing back up, hiring two folks who will be, as editor Adam Moss put it in an informal and friendly staff email yesterday, "roughly replacing the recently departed chris lehmann and the less-recently departed joanna coles." (No caps, the sure sign of an informal and friendly email.)
The lucky winners: Post features czar Faye Penn, who joins Jared Hohlt as features editor, and Wired senior editor Adam Fisher, who gets the new title of news editor.
Moss's thoughts on his latest hires after the jump.
Fisher, Moss writes, is "a natural magazine editor; he thinks in long-form terms and in short, well-turned bits. among his other talents, he knows how to turn a curiosity into a well-shaped, thoughtful piece; i think he's going to have a big impact on our well."
As for Penn, she's "a populist journalist, and a very smart one," says the boss. "among her freelance venues was new york magazine, where she wrote a piece for gotham on where cabbies go to pee."
"the addition of both these editors," Moss concludes, "should allow us to tackle the big, ambitious projects we shy away from now."
We're looking forward to the big, ambitious project on where all sorts of New York regulars go to pee — everyone from those cabdrivers, sure, to Charlie Rose to Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamondstein-Spielvogel to David Rockefeller to Muffy Potter Aston to Rufus and Sally Albemarle, most of whom presumably pee in fabulous, gorgeous bathrooms with top-of-the-line toilets, or at least in bedpans by Jonathan Adler.
It's a curiosity, but we're sure it'll end up as a well-shaped, thoughtful piece.
