Revolving Door Newsletter: 03.28.06
Cargo (And 70+ Staff) Down, Spin Editors Spun
March 28, 2006
Those of you with long memories may remember the wave of meta-media coverage that broke right about this time two years ago asking which of the men's shopping magazines just about to launch --
Cargo, Vitals, and
Sync -- would be winners and which would be losers. As of yesterday, we have our answer: they're all losers. Condé Nast announced that
Cargo's May issue would be its last; that editor Ariel Foxman and publisher Lance Ford would leave the company, and that it would try (although perhaps not very hard) to place the 70-80 staffers orphaned by its closing....
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