Ed Needham is an editor in journalism. '' Salon.com'', ''

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criticized Needham's 2002 appointment as editor of''

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'' as likely to end the high quality journalism for which the magazine was known and replace it with lad mag marketing from Needham's past magazines.'''' The ''

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'' remarked that ''Rolling Stone'' founder

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had great hopes for Needham. Needham noted that magazine covers featuring women outsold those which featured men. For the November 14, 2002 issue of ''Rolling Stone'' he presented

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naked with a tag line calling her a pop princess with a dirty mind. A 2021 ''

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'' retrospective of magazines remarked that this kind of portrayal was not common before or after that era of publishing. Needham stayed with ''Rolling Stone'' for about a year, after which in 2004 he became editor of ''

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'' Needham was the launch editor of ''Coach'', a free health and fitness magazine for men, predominantly distributed in London.

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invested £3million in the title and although it achieved a circulation of 300,704 the magazine closed after 14 months.

''Strong Words''

In 2017 Needham began planning ''Strong Words'', a literary magazine. In a 2019 interview Needham discussed his past 18 months as editor of ''Strong Words'', a literary review magazine. In interviews around the year 2020 Needham discussed his past as a corporate executive but in the post-digital publishing market, solo management was a better fit.

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