Revolving Door Newsletter: 08.05.05
The ax slashes through Shape, leaving little behind but bloody pink slips and change of address forms.
August 5, 2005
All Shape's editor-in-chief, Anne Russell, wanted was a little advice in choosing a new art director. Instead, she managed to distract American Media boss David Pecker from his tabloid troubles just long enough to get herself and her entire art department fired or else forcibly relocated to New York. (The rest of Shape is based outside of Los Angeles... for now). And that was just the beginning at American Media this week. Vincent Scalisi, the longtime editor of Muscle & Fitness and overseer of Flex and Muscle & Fitness Hers, quit, prompting Pecker to hand the reigns to Jeff ...
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