Things are picking up at a clip 'round Time Inc. Selling off titles and slashing jobs, be damned, 'cause Entertainment Weekly just landed its executive editor: Jeff Giles. But wait, you say. Didn't EW just name former Teen People editor Lori Majewski to that very position? Why yes, yes they did. Which means Time Inc. chieftan Jon Huey (or at least the flack penning his memos) forgot to mention the title will be "co-executive editor." Either way, the newest masthead squatter comes from Newsweek's Arts & Entertainment department and begins tearing apart the Thanksgiving film flood on Oct. 30. Full memo from Huey, after the jump.
October 5, 2006
To: Time Inc. Employees
From: John Huey
Re: Staff Announcement
I am pleased to announce, on the recommendation of Entertainment
Weekly Managing Editor Rick Tetzeli, that Jeff Giles is joining EW as
an executive editor.
Giles, who will oversee the magazine's movie coverage, starts at EW on
October 30. He comes to Time Inc. from Newsweek, where he has been the
senior editor in charge of its arts coverage. A 13-year veteran of
Newsweek, Jeff created Newsweek's well-respected Oscar roundtables,
wrote cover stories on Lord of the Rings, Jim Carrey, the Beatles and
many more, and shone an early light on such future stars as Brad Pitt,
Peter Jackson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Wes Anderson, Renee Zellweger, and
even Julia Roberts. Before Newsweek he was a contributing editor at
Rolling Stone and a staffer at the New Yorker. Somehow he found time
along the way to write a novel, "Back in the Blue House"--which
received a "B+" from EW.
Giles lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Jennifer Bevill, a Guggenheim
teaching artist, and their two children. Please join me in welcoming
him to Entertainment Weekly.
J. H.
