Categories: OLD Media Moves

Wall Street Journal AME likely to jump to Men's Journal

Keith Kelly of The New York Post reports Friday that Wall Street Journal assistant managing editor Ed Felsenthal is likely to leave the newspaper to become the next editor of magazine Men’s Journal.

Kelly wrote, “The front-runner is said to be Ed Felsenthal, the assistant managing editor of The Wall Street Journal who runs the weekday Personal Journal section as editor-in-chief.

“He is besting a host of candidates who have been contacted following the departure of James Kaminsky, who bolted for the new Alpha Media (formerly Dennis Publishing) as the editorial director of Maxim. Sources said a deal for Felsenthal could be only days away.

“If he gets the job, it would be a bit of a surprise on many levels.

“He had been everyone’s favorite pick to climb on the shuttle bus from the Journal to CondÃ© Nast Portfolio, where he could team up with his former colleague, Editor-in-Chief Joanne Lipman. But apparently discussions about such a move never advanced to the serious stage.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.