OTHER NEWS - Dec. 6, 1994

Sassy Gets New Owner: Los Angeles-based Petersen Publishing Co. purchased the teen-age girls’ magazine from Lang Communications for an undisclosed price. Petersen’s magazine holdings already include Teen, another youth-oriented publication. The first issue of the new Sassy will appear on newsstands Jan. 31. Sassy will be published monthly thereafter. It will also be redesigned. Ira Garey was named publisher of Sassy. Garey previously served as publisher of Seventeen and publications director of Quake. Sassy’s new editor is Thomasine Lewis, who was most recently editor in chief of Disney Adventures.