Another editor bites the dust

BMJ 1999;319:272-272 ( 31 July )

Editorials

Another editor bites the dust

Trust is needed to balance editorial independence and accountability

News p 273

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Earlier this week the Massachusetts Medical Society, owner of the New England Journal of Medicine, announced that Jerome PKassirer, the editor, would be leaving. His tenure will end ineight months, but he will start a seven month sabbatical at thebeginning of September. The Boston Globe, which broke the story,reported that Kassirer had been fired.¹ The society deniedthis and said his contract was simply not being renewed. His precipitousdeparture, seven months after the firing of George Lundberg, editorof JAMA,² is likely to cause another round of soul searchingover balancing editorial independence andaccountability.

Kassirer has fallen out with the Massachusetts Medical Society over the use of the powerful brand name of the journal, a battlealso fought by his predecessor. The society wants to expand itspublishing, using the brand name of the flagship journal (in theway that we . . . [Full text of this article]

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