Maggie Mahoney, CEO of RUNWAY Magazine, has decided to close RUNWAY MAGAZINE after taking advertisers money and not paying her staff for the April Issue of RUNWAY MAGAZINE.
Ocean Bates and Maggie Mahoney should be ashamed of themselves if this is actually true. I have been carefully following the RUNWAY Magazine blog and found the obituary that she posted about herself and found it very disturbing. Who else has ever written their own obituary? Not anyone of right mind, just creepy.
It has also come to my attention that NO ONE ON THE STAFF was told she was closing the magazine. They all found out on from a lousy blog obituary posting. It was Maggie and Ocean that took the lindens and screwed over everyone who has also poured time, effort and love into that magazine. To turn around and just ditch everyone who has worked so hard and so long for her is terrible. Even if Maggie does have RL medical issues, this is not the way to handle things.
As for Frolic Mills apparently seizing control over the RUNWAY Magazine, I think Maggie should consider how poorly she left the entire staff, not talking to them, not working with them to transition them to work on their own. Perhaps Maggie should have considered her staff that she claims to have cared for and loved so much to have treated them better and the magazine like this.
If you look at the current issue, it is 100,000,000% better thant it was even 6 months ago. RUNWAY Magazine was finally on the level of BOSL magazine in terms of quality. Maggie, if you are really cared about RUNWAY MAGAZINE and not your ego you would have handled things differently and communicated with your staff better. You only have yourself to blame for destroying one of SL's best fashion magazines ever made.
Maggie, do the right thing pay your staff, and refund advertiers and designers who have paid you for future advertising that you now will not be doing. No one would have ever expected someone so well respected like you to screw over everyone like this! Shame one you!
Source: http://www.runwaysl.com/blog/
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Well I guess it remains to be seen if Maggie and/or Ocean settle the magazine's debts. Hopefully they are good people and will sort that out in the coming days.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the staff have now lost the magazine altogether and are left with nothing to try to recoup. Shame really, they could have renamed the magazine RUNAWAY and purged their thoughts and feelings about the situation in May's issue.
Hope those who lost money get it back.
This is Maggie Mahoney and I have responded to questions raised here at my post http://www.runwaysl.com/blog/?p=1150. The writers of this blog have my permission to copy and paste the entire post to this forum should they choose. If they do not, then that is their choice as well.
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