Time Inc. reshuffles business side - News - Brief Article

Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management, Oct 15, 1993

The long-anticipated upheaval at Time Inc. Magazines began on September 17, but some industry observers expect it's just the beginning of a general downsizing within the division. At press time, the only executive casualties were Kelso Sutton, who will leave at the end of the year after 32 years with the company, and Alan Barr at Time Inc.

Ventures, who was chief operating officer of Health. Most of the changes were on the business side of the core New York titles. As a result of the reshuffling, Time Inc.'s highly touted regional vice-president/ad sales structure is no more. Chicago's regional vice president, Jack Haire, is now publisher of Time. Elizabeth Valk Long took the new post of president. New York regional vice president Dave Long became publisher of Sports Illustrated--with Don Elliman Jr. remaining as president. Detroit regional vice president Jim Graham moved to New York as vice president-corporate accounts, and Los Angeles regional vice president Steve Seabolt got the new title of western corporate accounts director. People publisher Ann Moore was named president, while Life publisher Nora McAniff moved over to take Moore's job. Ed McCarrick, Time's associate publisher/ad director, became publisher of Life. Another fillip is the creation of the business/finance magazine cluster--Fortune and Money--which comes under the direction of Michael Pepe, currently vice president of marketing in New York. Judging from the seven New York magazines' ad performance so far this year, and for the past two years, management must have seen a need to shake things up before they got much worse.