Gene Stone, a consulting editor of the...
Gene Stone, a consulting editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine, has been named editor of California magazine, effective Aug. 31. Stone, 35, succeeds Harold Hayes, who left the post in January.
Before joining The Times in 1986, Stone was West Coast editor of Simon & Schuster, the book publisher. He had previously worked as a senior editor at Esquire magazine in New York, and also as a senior editor at Bantam Books and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
California has had a succession of publishers and editors since its founding in 1976 by New York magazine editor Clay Felker. Editorial leadership changed repeatedly during the ownership of Rupert Murdoch. Current owner and publisher Alan Bennett bought the magazine from Murdoch’s successor, a group led by former Texas Monthly editor William Broyles.
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