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Ed Needham

Ed Needham is an editor in journalism.

''Salon.com'', ''The Guardian'', and the Los Angeles Times criticized Needham's 2002 appointment as editor of'' Rolling Stone'' as likely to end the high quality journalism for which the magazine was known and replace it with lad mag marketing from Needham's past magazines.'''' The ''Hartford Courant'' remarked that ''Rolling Stone'' founder Jann Wenner had great hopes for Needham.

Needham noted that magazine covers featuring women outsold those which featured men. For the November 14, 2002 issue of ''Rolling Stone'' he presented Christina Aguilera naked with a tag line calling her a pop princess with a dirty mind. A 2021 ''Washington Post'' retrospective of magazines remarked that this kind of portrayal was not common before or after that era of publishing.

Needham stayed with ''Rolling Stone'' for about a year, after which in 2004 he became editor of ''Maxim''

Needham was the launch editor of ''Coach'', a free health and fitness magazine for men, predominantly distributed in London. Dennis Publishing invested £3million in the title and although it achieved a circulation of 300,704 the magazine closed after 14 months. Provided by Wikipedia