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******* It didn't take long for Kent Brownridge to turn his guns on his old boss Jann Wenner. James Kaminsky, who was running Wenner Media's title Men's Journal, was named editor of Maxim, the bawdy men's magazine that rode the lad mag boom on the way up and is now fighting to preserve its gains as the entire category gets slammed. Kaminsky's pay package is believed to be worth around $600,000. Kaminsky's hiring spelled the end of the road for Jimmy Jellinek, who had been Maxim's editor-in-chief for the past year—a period filled with uncertainty as former British owner Felix Dennis shopped Maxim parent Dennis Publishing USA, whose assets also include Stuff and Blender. MORE ONLINE
2. Folio
A little more than a month after reports surfaced saying that advertising revenues at San Francisco-based Business 2.0 were down nearly 40 percent, and suggesting that the magazine was ready to fold, a well-placed source says publisher Time Inc. will decide the magazine’s fate sometime next week. “It seems like the rumor mill is kicking into high gear, so I think [Time Inc.] is getting close to a resolution, ” the source tells Folio: Alert. Last month, rumors circulated that the September issue of Business 2.0 would be its last. As it reportedly considered offers from prospective buyers, Time Inc. apparently decided to retain the staff an extra few weeks to put together the October issue. A passionate group of Business 2.0 readers even formed a group on social networking site Facebook to show support for the magazine. MORE ONLINE
3. Guardian
James Brown, the former editor of Loaded magazine, is still in bed when I call him at 9.30am and not yet in the best of moods. You are really in bed, I ask? "No. I've been in the office since 6.30," he says with sarcasm. Oh, you have? "No. I am in bed". He does sound a bit sleepy. We have a debate about what restaurant to go to for lunch. He wants Japanese. He thinks of a place around the corner from the Guardian but says the decor is depressing: "They need to sort themselves out." By the time we meet he is much sparkier. Brown has kept a relatively low profile since selling his magazine business in 2003, spending time consulting and looking after his young son. He has worked at some unlikely places on the quiet, helping the Mail on Sunday redesign its magazine and the Reader's Digest size up new opportunities. His latest project is perhaps less unlikely, working with the new owners of Sport Newspapers in a bid to recapture a "bit of the reckless fun of their early days". But at 41 and recently divorced, he is, he says, ready to get properly stuck in again. He is working on two of his own business ideas and meeting backers. I read one of his own quotes back to him: "Four years ago I decided ambition is very negative." He smiles. "I did, I've now come round to ... I think actually it needn't be," he says in his Leeds accent. MORE ONLINE
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