If there’s a plan to replace WSJ. magazine editor-in-chief Kristina O’Neill, who was sacked, to use a very British term, by new Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker last week, it’s not being shared with staffers, according to a number of people. Instead, Tucker’s missive is to “carry on” as usual.
In some ways, O’Neill’s Thursday morning meeting with Tucker—the first time they had met in person since the Murdoch-appointed editor arrived at the paper on Feb 1—didn’t come as a complete surprise. It was probably time for a change. Her 10-year run at WSJ., which she spun into a tasteful ode to Peter Lindbergh and chunky cashmere, made her a star in the declining world of fashion and magazines, with her name surfacing as a potential successor for Glenda Bailey at her alma mater Harper’s Bazaar and as an outside contender for Graydon Carter’s throne at Vanity Fair back in 2017.
