Navasky's Advice to Indie Mags: Shake Down Paul Newman for $1M, Spend It on Writers
Professor of magazine journalism at Columbia and The Nation publisher emeritus Victor Navasky addressed independent magazine editors and publishers yesterday at the annual IMAG leadership conference, yet another Magazine Publishers of America event, held this year at the W Hotel in Union Square. And Navasky was packing the anecdotal heat.
Navasky recounted awkward fundraising moments for the 135-year-old magazine, like the one where he managed to finagle $1 million out of Paul Newman for The Nation during a business dinner where Newman’s wife, Joanne Woodward, became an unlikely ally.
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