Blog Costs Magazine Editor Her Jobs

Posted on July 23, 2005

The New York Post reports that Nadine Haobsh lost her job as associate beauty editor at Ladies' Home Journal and was turned down by another job at Seventeen because of her blog. Nadine ran the Jolie in NY blog where she gossiped about her job and the women's magazine industry.

The 24-year-old Barnard grad's online journal was a must-read with Vogue and Glamour peons and higher-ups. Other media-centric blogs like Gawker and Media Bistro pondered her identity.
But when news of her true self was unmasked in a mass e-mail this week - and spread faster than an Est�e Lauder goody bag around a Cond� Nast office - Haobsh saw the downside of fame.
Her bosses at Ladies' Home Journal "thought it displayed a lack of respect for the industry and a lack of professionalism," a contrite Haobsh said yesterday.
"I understand that," she said.

Despite having lost her magazine job, Nadine blogs in a post titled "New Beginnings" that she is getting interviews with major media outlets and has book deals being discussed:

It would be an understatement to say that this was the weirdest week of my life. On Tuesday morning, I had a job I loved, a nice salary and was living in blissful oblivion. Flash forward to today, and I've given interviews to the New York Post, Fox 5 News and CNN (are you kidding me??), have a very, very big interview set for tomorrow (until it actually happens, my lips are zipped), have meetings this coming week with multiple book agents and-oh, yeah, that-am quickly approaching the poverty mark. 24/7 ramen: can't wait!