Gossip Magazine Editors, Out They Go!

It’s a turbulent time in Australian magazine publishing currently, between New Woman folding and New Idea’s continued idiocy, now Famous‘ founding editor Shane Sutton has been shown the door.

He’s been replaced in the role by a former NW staffer, which is perhaps not surprising given that the two mags are more or less identical and when reading one, you wonder why the other still exists.

After a slide in last week’s sales survey, Sutton has moved to “new projects” with NW’s former deputy editor taking over.

Speculation was rife that management could be considering merging Famous with its stablemate, Who.

Moving on to “new projects”! That’s the publishing equivalent of “creative differences” or “the pair remain firm friends”!

As for merging Famous with Who, why bother? The latter ceased to be relevant some time ago, while the former never was, so combining the two would just create a massive publishing black hole of irrelevancy – and I think New Idea would have something to say about such encroachment on their market share in that department.