The future of Janice Min — and what really went down as she stepped down on Monday as president of The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard — was one of the biggest topics of table gossip at the National Magazine Awards event.
The rumor mill has always said that Condé Nast has long eyed her as a potential editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair if longtime incumbent Graydon Carter ever decides to step down.
Carter seems newly energized by his long-running feud with President Trump.
On the THR/Billboard Media Group front, the speculation is that owner Todd Boehly, whose Eldridge Industries spun the titles out of Guggenheim Media in December 2015, is interested in selling but needed to move some of Min’s seven-figure salary off the books.
Officially, she is helping Eldridge and Boehly look for acquisitions.
But the whisper is that they are just paying out her contract at the parent company.
There is also speculation that Hollywood executives — who got to know her abilities first-hand as she covered the town — may offer her some sort of studio job.
Min could not be reached for comment.
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