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“Ms. Fuller may be the most relentless editor in recent magazine history” (she’s edited YM, Cosmo, Glamour, US Weekly, and, of course, Star)
Despite that “she has served throughout her career as a chew toy for reporters covering the publishing business. Ms. Fuller is known for her hellacious hours, indifferent people skills and an approach to deadline matters that is more akin to ritual sacrifice than publishing protocol.”
Here’s the interesting thing: I no longer work for Star - nor does Bonnie, so I have nothing to gain or lose by saying this: she was a fantastic boss. Seriously. She hired me personally and allowed me enough free reign so I could do what I was hired to do: get Star on air. I made over 400 appearances in the year I worked for her - so I guess her management style worked. Aside from telling me that a certain fashion week barf bag parody video was “a bit inappropriate,” Bonnie & I got along rather well.
So I find it strange, then, that I consistently read things like this: “in certain Manhattan media circles, it’s almost a collective reflex to hate Bonnie Fuller, viewing her common touch with readers as a symptom of precisely how common she is.”
Classy.
I’m not sure what motivates people to speak about her with the negativity they do, but I will say this: if Bonnie Fuller were a man, there’s no way in hell she’d get the shit that she does.
I wish her the best of luck with her new venture, if only because it’s really nice to see someone succeed when others, far more cowardly, wish her to fail.
Boring article. But Julia is soooo right. OMG. Only cowards want to see Bonnie Fuller fail. Business people who are in direct competition with others in the same field, like Bonnie and her peers in the upper echelon of journalism, should all just wish one another the best & leave it at that. Readership & advertising will just work itself out.
