Posts tagged as Harper's Magazine
On Being Laid Off from Harper's
"Life at a publication such as Harper’s is far from easy. The pay is bad, chances for advancement are almost nonexistent (during my tenure at the magazine, only two people on the editorial staff received a promotion due to merit rather than attrition; I was one them), and with each day, the sense that the magazine and the nation’s readers hold less and less in common only seems to increase." READ MORE
Ask Roger Hodge: "Is the Post Office Going to Follow the Way of Magazines"?
Obviously I did not watch this entire 35-minute Q&A with-or the full 25-minute talk by-unemployed non-former Conde Nast (former non-Conde Nast, I mean) magazine editor Roger Hodge, but I did start them both! (The next question from the Q&A, after the one about the mail, involves the SOCIAL NETWORKS.) The Q&A, obviously, followed Hodge's talk at Duke, which was titled "My Rise and Fall," but only on accident, as Hodge said he actually wanted the talk to be called "Decline and Fall," which he attributes to the title of a book about the Saturday Evening Post (Otto Friedrich, 1970), but perhaps you know it from elsewhere? Anyway, it happened right after Hodge left Harper's and Hodge also makes fun of the coming singularity, which, NOT COOL MAN. No one makes fun of the singularity.
Lifetime Employee Roger Hodge Leaves Harper's
Roger Hodge, whose rise from the state of Texas to Harper's intern to, in 2006, the magazine's editor in chief was even heralded in a New York Times profile, is departing. Hodge generally held steady, and was present for a significant and extremely forward-thinking web overhaul, despite some early troubles in his tenure. Ellen Rosenbush-the managing editor since 1989, five years before Hodge was an intern-has been named the acting editor.
