The magazine
Mental Floss promoted Jessanne Collins from editor to its top spot, editor in chief -- a personnel shift that, somewhat surprisingly, merited a full column in the
New York
Times. Maybe it's because of Collins' background as an editor on
Playgirl magazine? That's where she reported "to executives at a publishing house that produced a bevy of pornographic
titles, working with budgets so tight that she was used as a model," writes Christine Haughney.
To her credit, Haugney does not put this fact in the lead, instead positioning this perhaps
undue interest in Collins as evidence that "To the underpaid, well-educated magazine scribes hoping for a break in an industry with little growth opportunity, there is hope." Still, Collins' "spicy
credentials" are mentioned in the headline.
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