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Niche Media, home to Gotham magazine and “its summertime sidekick,” Hamptons, (along with LA Confidential, Boston Common and Capital File) is headed for changes under CEO Jason Binn. In addition to Binn’s plans to launch new mags in Atlantic City and Chicago, copy editors at Gotham are busy drafting up a new masthead..
Gotham EIC Jason Oliver Nixon, is slated to become the lifestyle editor for the five magazines the company currently produces, with managing editor Kei Jaminor set to take over the top edit spot
And Hamptons magazine, once solely dependent on its sister staff, will finally get its own editor, Cindi Cook. A little bit society, a little bit news, Gotham and Hamptons have managed to maintain a solid grip on this particular gossip “niche,” with Page Six The Magazine acting as the closest publication to be considered competition.
“We don’t trash people, we celebrate them,” Binn told Forbes magazine last year.
Which may explain why you may of never heard of or don’t read either of these pubs. Unless of course, you’re being featured in one of them.
HOLY MASTHEAD! EDITOR SHIFT SHAKES GOTHAM MAGAZINES [Keith J. Kelly, NYP]
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