From last week's interview with Fortune design director Bob Newman:

Newman: Well, my editor at Real Simple was fired... One thing I was thinking last night is that I've had a lot of editors fired. (Laughs).

Mediabistro: What did you do to them?

Newman: Check this out. When I was at New York, Kurt Andersen was fired. Then I went to Details, and Michael Caruso was fired. Then I went to Vibe and the editor, Danyel Smith—fortunately I got along really well with her successor. Then I went to Inside and... you know what happened there. Then I went to Real Simple and she was fired. (Laughs.) I told the editor of Fortune when I took this job, "No one has survived me yet!"

But then we sort of saw that one coming.

UPDATE: We're told that "managing editor" = "editor" at Fortune, which is, we suppose, not too unusual. (See Stone, Rolling.) So the Newman curse holds!

Unless you believe the departure was entirely voluntary...

Nah, we didn't think so.