Hell no, they won’t go.
The American Society of Magazine Editors, which has long shared office space with the MPA, the Association of Magazine Media, will be heading across the East River to Queens when the MPA pulls up stakes and moves its HQ to Washington, DC, next year.
“ASME has filed, with the support of MPA, articles of incorporation as an independent trade association,” ASME Chief Executive Sid Holt told Media Ink. “The ASME offices will remain in New York — in a new WeWork in Long Island City.”
“ASME will continue to operate much as it has in the past,” Holt said. “In fact, the National Magazine Awards 2020 call for entries will be published next week, on Oct. 1. ASME will also continue to collaborate with MPA on industry issues.”
MPA CEO Linda Thomas Brooks will exit at year-end. The MPA, a trade group representing the glitzy consumer mag industry that has spent 100 years in Manhattan, was revealed by Media Ink to be heading to DC on July 12.
Brooks’ replacement will be the executive VP of government affairs, Brigitte Schmidt Gwyn, a lobbyist who knows her way around DC. “We’re doubling down on government affairs, “ said Meredith CEO Tom Harty, who is the chairman of the board of MPA.