Men's Journal Editor Wieners Out

Apparently having double-digit newsstand growth isn’t enough to keep your job—if you’re the editor of Jann Wenner’s Men’s Journal, that is.
 
The Wenner Media chairman dumped Brad Wieners as the title’s editor on Friday, despite the men’s lifestyle magazine’s having a 24.7 percent newsstand increase in the first half of the year.
 
At less than 100,000 on a total circulation of 722,681, Men’s Journal’s single-copy sales are relatively small. Even so, many ad buyers view newsstand as a barometer of vitality, especially when industry single-copy sales were down 5.6