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By adamg on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 9:58am
James Burnett is out as editor of Boston magazine; he e-mails contacts that today is his last day. Comes a few months after an editorial shakeup at the company that owns both Boston and Philadelphia magazines.
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huh?
The post doesn't say Burnett is out as editor, just that there's now an editorial director over him. Did he quit?
One way or another, he's no longer editor
He just sent out e-mail to all his contacts that today is his last day at Boston magazine.
Paul Flannery also out
I'm hearing from people who know these sorts of things, and who add it seems like Burnett did not go willingly
Flannery became superfluous
A coupla months ago, they decided not to run their website with daily updates of fresh content because it wasn't getting enough hits to justify keeping it (and, by extension, the paid position, I presume) around. My opinion is that the basic idea behind the Boston Mag blog overlapped with the mission of present blog, and Flannery just didn't nail the local voice as well as Adam G. does. Nice enough guy tho.
As for Burnett, I'm not a huge fan of his as a journalist. Again, nice enough guy. My primary beef is that he had as good a chance to nail that weasel Mike Barnicle as anyone has in years, and passed it up in order to yuk yuk attaboy with him about cigars. It's like: at least sock Barnicle in the cubes for us once, c'mon, Heaven knows he deserves it. My ideal editor of Boston Magazine would know about Sully's cheeseburgers, Jimmy Piersall, Judge Garrity, and Ed O.G. and Da Bulldogs, and would relish the idea of giving a phony like Barnicle a hard time. I always got the impression that Burnett would be just as comfortable working in Seattle. If you're going to go with out-of-towners, ok, but there are hungrier journalists under him on the masthead.
I wish I could clone Brian Ballou a dozen times and disperse the new Ballous evenly throughout the city's periodicals. That kid can really hit his notes.