With magazine legends leaving the industry, teams going global and a growing migration from edit to tech, we're entering a new era of media leadership — and a once-aspirational title disappearing.
Titles and pay grades are notoriously inconsistent in media. But is there something deeper to the rebranding of the EIC — and is the term outdated, even?
"I've never felt like working in media was linear, anyway," says Peoples Wagner. "Yes, you can go from associate to senior editor, that kind of thing, but there are so many other ways to live and breathe as an editor or writer. A lot of super-junior writers came out with amazing books, and now, they're able to freelance or do a Substack.
"If you're a good storyteller, you're smart and you understand culture and the zeitgeist, you're valuable to a lot of people out there," Lee says. "Media are not the only companies doing content; every brand has content because everyone has social media, video and other things.
Recently, Netflix has hired a lot of media alumni, including fellow former Nylon Editor-in-Chief Gabrielle Korn, ex-Them Editor Whembley Sewell, Refinery29's most recent Executive Editor Connie Wang and many more writers at major publications. "People look at my move to Netflix like, 'Wow, how did you do that?' It took years of me planting the seeds and wanting to learn different things," Lee says.
Departures from traditional publishing by top editors like Lee could ultimately be less of a total talent exodus and more of a savvy research mission before returning to magazines, per Rubenstein: "Talent going into all these directions and places is a good thing, because I think it's going to take learning from all these different corners of the media landscape to then come together, instead of waiting for someone else to fix the industry.
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