Du Jour, the magazine from Jason Binn intended for the .003 percenters of the world, has started to hire the necessary staff to publish a title that will probably annoy anyone who doesn’t swim around in gold coins.

Keith Pollock and Nicole Vecchiarelli will be Co-Editors-in-Chief. Pollock was most recently with Elle.com and Vecchiarelli comes to Du Jour from InStyle magazine, where she worked as a Senior Editor.

Alan Katz will also join Du Jour as its Chief Revenue Officer. Katz is a veteran of the publishing world, having worked at New York, Vanity Fair, Interview and more. Katz comes to the magazine from Direct Brands. Cynthia Lewis, the title’s new Vice President of Sales, will work closely with Katz. She most recently founded Create Lucrative Relationships.

Finally, Max McDonnell will serve as Du Jour’s Associate Vice President of Product Development. McDonnell was formerly CEO Lonnymag.com, an online shelter publication.

This week, there has been a flurry of news coming out of Brant Publications, the publisher of Interview magazine.

On Monday, there were reports that editorial director Glenn O’Brien had left the company. O’Brien had been appointed co-editorial director of Interview and Brant’s other publications,Art in America and The Magazine Antiques, last year when longtime editor Ingrid Sischy left the company.

Coming in to replace O’Brien is Fabien Baron, who was originally O’Brien’s co-editorial director but was in the role for a matter of months before being let go.

Of course, this whole shake-up has tongues wagging about the health of the company, with some predicting that the company might be in dire financial straits. As O’Brien told Fashion Week Daily, the publisher simply isn’t able to pay its freelancers.

Brant is now being run by Ryan Brant, a disgraced former CEO of software company Take Two, who pled guilty to stock option backdating. He was appointed by his father, Peter, after publisher Alan Katz departed a few months back.

“Months ago, I wanted to bring in a professional publisher, which might have averted this cash flow situation,” O’Brien told FWD. “Basically, it’s been rudderless [ever since Katz's departure] on the publishing side.”

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