San Diego Magazine shrinks staff, starting near the top
Looks like San Diego Magazine is taking a financial beating, right along with everyone else. CityBeat learned this afternoon that Executive Editor Ron Donoho and Art Director Laurie Miller both got the axe some time last week. Donoho was second on the editorial totem pole, while Miller managed the look of the whole magazine. The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Tom Blair, would only offer CityBeat a brief statement on affairs at the 60-year-old magazine.
“I don’t think any business hasn’t felt the effects of the current economy,” he said. “We’ve done some staff restructuring to focus on our core products.”
Blair would not say whether Miller or Donoho would be replaced, nor whether there would be additional layoffs down the line, but he seemed optimistic.
“We’re feeling good,” he said.
The magazine’s president, James Fitzpatrick, also left recently, to be replaced by publisher Maureen Sullivan.
Donoho was a hack. Time for him to go.