Troy Young, who beat out internal rivals to become president of Hearst Corp.’s magazine division in 2018, has presided over a “toxic” culture and made numerous sexist and lewd remarks, The New York Times reported.
The Times story on Wednesday followed outrage about Hearst’s magazine operation that has surfaced on social media in recent weeks. The article detailed multiple offensive episodes over several years, including comments Young made at a company offices and at events.
At a Cosmopolitan holiday party in 2013, in an account supported by multiple named witnesses, Young offered a jarring suggestion to a young staff member who mentioned having gone on an unpleasant date. At issue was the date’s complaints about an ex-girlfriend’s odor. Young allegedly told the woman that she should have inserted her fingers into herself and asked her date if he liked the way she smelled. The Times did not identify...
The Times story on Wednesday followed outrage about Hearst’s magazine operation that has surfaced on social media in recent weeks. The article detailed multiple offensive episodes over several years, including comments Young made at a company offices and at events.
At a Cosmopolitan holiday party in 2013, in an account supported by multiple named witnesses, Young offered a jarring suggestion to a young staff member who mentioned having gone on an unpleasant date. At issue was the date’s complaints about an ex-girlfriend’s odor. Young allegedly told the woman that she should have inserted her fingers into herself and asked her date if he liked the way she smelled. The Times did not identify...
- 7/22/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
After three years as Esquire’s top editor, Jay Fielden on Thursday announced that he would be leaving leave the venerable men’s magazine.
“Today — after a lot of long and careful thinking — I have decided it is time to depart as Esquire’s editor in chief, three and a half years after I arrived,” Fielden said in a lengthy Instagram statement. “For me, the time has simply come to press on in a new direction, perhaps more than one, before I get struck by male pattern baldness.”
Fielden said the latest edition of Esquire, which dropped earlier this week, would be his last. Before serving as editor-in-chief, Fielden led Hearst’s Town & Country after joining the company in 2011. He still remains on the masthead as an editorial director of that publication — a title he will also lose, the New York Times reported.
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“Today — after a lot of long and careful thinking — I have decided it is time to depart as Esquire’s editor in chief, three and a half years after I arrived,” Fielden said in a lengthy Instagram statement. “For me, the time has simply come to press on in a new direction, perhaps more than one, before I get struck by male pattern baldness.”
Fielden said the latest edition of Esquire, which dropped earlier this week, would be his last. Before serving as editor-in-chief, Fielden led Hearst’s Town & Country after joining the company in 2011. He still remains on the masthead as an editorial director of that publication — a title he will also lose, the New York Times reported.
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- 5/23/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Esquire Magazine was called out on Twitter on Tuesday after revealing its March cover story, which featured a profile of a “white, middle class male” growing up “in the era of social media, school shootings, toxic masculinity, #MeToo, and a divided country.”
“As adults, it’s actually pretty easy to cop out: We don’t have to go to school, that bossy institution that pokes and prods you while people you don’t particularly like get to watch,” Esquire editor Jay Fielden said in a piece explaining the origins of the story on Tuesday
“Add to this the passions and change this moment has unleashed–#MeToo, gender fluidity, Black Lives Matter, “check your privilege,” and “#TheFutureIsFemale–and the task of grappling with the world has to be more complicated for kids than it’s ever been,” Fielden continued.
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“As adults, it’s actually pretty easy to cop out: We don’t have to go to school, that bossy institution that pokes and prods you while people you don’t particularly like get to watch,” Esquire editor Jay Fielden said in a piece explaining the origins of the story on Tuesday
“Add to this the passions and change this moment has unleashed–#MeToo, gender fluidity, Black Lives Matter, “check your privilege,” and “#TheFutureIsFemale–and the task of grappling with the world has to be more complicated for kids than it’s ever been,” Fielden continued.
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- 2/12/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
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