New Life to Spy

Sussex gives new life to dead Spy

Publication:
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
Publish date:
May 18, 1994
Author:
Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff


Spy magazine, which ceased publication in March, will be relaunched in July by Sussex Publishers. The New York company, also home to Psychology Today and Mother Earth News, will publish Spy on a bimonthly basis.

Owen Lipstein, editorial director of Sussex and founder of American Health magazine, will serve as editorial director of Spy. Jim Mauro, a senior editorial executive at Sussex, will be Spy's editor. Former Spy contributors David Shenk, Daniel Radosh and Ellis Wiener will be on the masthead as senior editors.

Spy, founded in 1986 by Kurt Andersen, Graydon Carter and Tom Phillips, was known for poking holes in celebrity. An antidote to 1980s excess, the magazine took as its favorite targets New Yorkers like Donald Trump, Tina Brown and Leona Helmsley. Sussex would not comment on the likelihood of changes in design or editorial direction.

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