The Atlantan lets go two top editorial staffers

New year, new changes for another Atlanta publication.

Local luxury lifestyle mag the Atlantan has let go Editor-in-Chief Nancy Staab and Senior Editor — and ex-CL art critic — Felicia Feaster. Dickey Publishing, the parent company of Cumulus Media, which owns and operates Jezebel magazine, bought the Atlantan last August. The magazine’s decision to part with Staab and Feaster is a direct result of the new ownership, wanting to, well, take ownership of the editorial product, according to Atlantan publisher Chris Van Duyne.

“Nancy and Felicia are both incredible journalists,” says Van Duyne. “It has nothing to do with personalities.”

After working as a critic at Creative Loafing for 15 years, Feaster left the paper for the senior editor position at the Atlantan. In her nearly three years there, she did a lot to make the glossy’s cultural coverage feel relevant to more in Atlanta than just the upper crust. Case in point: Last December’s Arts & Power Issue, which covered everything from online art mag BurnAway.org to the Living Walls street art conference to author Blake Butler.

Van Duyne says the magazine has no plans to cut back on art criticism or cultural coverage. The Atlantan will “continue dedicated coverage from someone who has an additional broader sense of everything local luxury.”

Speaking of “someone,” Van Duyne says that Vice President of Editorial and Jezebel Editor-in-Chief Beth Weitzman already has Staab’s replacement picked out, and could announce it as early as this week. Van Duyne says he’s still in the dark about who’s on tap to helm the Atlantan’s editorial voice, but says he’s been told it’s “someone everyone will know very well and will make an immediate impact and will be critical as further defining the Atlantan and luxury lifestyle.”