• Capital New York, Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:03 AM

Editors in chief at two big-deal mags are going off-masthead. On Dec. 2 Good Housekeeping's Rosemary Ellis, head editor at the Hearst pub for seven years, will be replaced by Jane Francisco, now the editor in chief of Chatelaine, a women’s lifestyle magazine in Canada  -- a departure that "shocked some in publishing circles," writes Adweek's Lucia Moses. Reading about Ellis' accomplishments as a "brand steward" at GH -- plus the fact that circulation was actually up at the pub -- we were a bit shocked, too.

Less shocking, perhaps, is Hugo Lindgren's ouster from The New York Times Magazine, set for the end of the year  -- a move that was rumored for months, according to Matthew Lynch. No word yet of a replacement.  "Lindgren's three-year tenure has been marked by a string of personnel shuffling," writes Lynch, and "some critics whiffed at... the soft features he incorporated."

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