Time Out New York reports its editor, Brian Farnham, once of Details, is leaving to join an unnamed Internet startup and will be replaced by Deputy Editor Michael Freidson. Freidson, of course, is the TONY editor who spammed bloggers this past fall in the hope they'd write much of his magazine for him. See Michael, we told you crowdsourcing pays!
So apparently Time Out New York managing editor Nancy Sidewater gave two weeks' notice yesterday. We're told this move wasn't incited by Tuesday's announcement that Details vet Brian Farnham will become the listings mag's editor-in-chief — "more to do with issues that had been simmering for a while," as a TONY source emailed — but, well, the timing does seem awfully coincidental. Know anything else about what went down? Let us know.
As WWD reported this morning, Details wunderkind Brian Farnham — who in five years there rose to the No. 2 position at the mag — resigned yesterday to become the new editor-in-chief of Time Out New York. TONY has been EIC-less since Joe Angio left at Christmastime to focus on promoting his documentary on Melvin Van Peebles. There were apparently "many, many, MANY
candidates interviewed" for the job — which presumably explains why it was open for so long — and Farnham will be starting May 1. After the jump, dueling memos: A terse — and head-patting — farewell from Details chief Dan Peres, and a gushing welcome from Time Out president Alison Tocci.
