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New York Magazine Attracts Potential Suitors

By AAN Staff
may 19, 2003  10:57 am
New York Magazine Attracts Potential Suitors
Jann Wenner and Mortimer Zuckerman want it. So do the Tribune Co. and the New York Times. "It" is New York magazine, which is perhaps coveted less for potential profits than for its media-historical cachet. Founded in 1968 by Clay Felker, who also owned and edited The Village Voice, New York's sharp take on the cultural and political life of the city and its hip version of service journalism invented the city magazine and had a profound influence on the development of the alternative newspaper. "For five or six years, Clay Felker's version of New York magazine did something revolutionary," New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan tells The New York Times' David Carr. "It not only invented the city magazine, it restated the city around it. And that is a great thing."
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