Restructuring At Time Inc

For some reason Time Inc always get drawn to the Pathfinder black hole…or maybe it is that we just love bringing up the sore points on any story on Time Inc…

Time Inc is eliminating about 20 jobs at its magazine websites and is consolidating other jobs under Ned Desmond, who heads Time Inc Interactive, paidContent.org has learned. These 20 jobs are mainly in the IT and design dept and most of them (about 15, sources say) are being offered a chance to reapply at the “new new” centralized Time Inc Interactive (Confused, you say? Ah well, so are the sites’ financial structures, which apparently prompted the reshuffling). The staff was told about these changes at a meeting in Time/Life building last week.

Sites affected include People, TeenPeople, Entertainment Weekly and In Style–note that these sites have already gone behind AOL wall, the grand plan which has been discussed in some detail before [see below]. From the looks of it, it seems that only entertainment-oriented magazine sites are being re-jiggered in this.

Time.com, Fortune.com and other magazine sites which have remained independent from the AOL plan, are not being touched for now.

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