Former School Library Journal editor-in-chief Julie Cummins has settled out of court for an undisclosed amount in a lawsuit she filed in the State Supreme Court March 7 against Cahners, publisher of the magazine. Cummins was terminated last August, just nine months after she was hired.
Cummins’s attorney, Dan Alterman, said his client and the company “have amicably resolved their differences, and the case has been discontinued in the state supreme court by agreement of both sides.” Cummins, 62, declined to comment on the out-of-court settlement, saying she had signed a nondisclosure clause. Alterman said the basis for the suit was “wrongful termination and discrimination in employment under New York State executive law and New York City human rights law.”
Fred Ciporen, head of the trade publishing group at the New York-based firm, said last August after firing Cummins that the magazine needed to change editorial direction and that Cummins was “not the navigator” he had hoped for. She was replaced last September by Evan St. Lifer, who had served four years as executive editor of Library Journal, a sister publication at Cahners.
Posted May 6, 2002.