EXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles magazine is starting to lose its luster under the ownership of celebrity attorneys Mark Geragos and Ben Meiselas and the new management of publisher Chris Gialanella.
MeidasTouch. “For all their talk of reinventing Los Angeles, their early performance has been less than inspiring. Traffic is reportedly way down. Cancellations are up. Longtime contributors are departing in droves,” Roshan said in a statement. “Bluster and bullying are useful tactics for a mob lawyer or a Trump-baiting Twitter personality. But they’re less effective when you’re responsible for running a respected media entity.
Erickson told Confider last week that he was “two columns & [$4,000] behind in being compensated,” employing a Trump reference to jab at the magazine. “A publisher like Mr. Geragos who doesn’t pay his writers is like a disgraced ex-president who doesn’t pay his lawyers. Pretty soon he doesn’t have any,” Erickson wrote in an email to us.last week, the magazine went scorched earth.
Multiple people familiar with the situation told Confider that, since its outreach, the magazine has scrambled to pay out thousands of dollars’ worth of outstanding payments to freelancers. But still, some freelancers have yet to see a dollar.
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