New York Magazine is considered an amusing, well-polished, and somewhat genteel journal that embodies the interests of a certain set of leisurely professionals.
It's not seen by most as a battleground of any sort. But that didn't stop it from hiring a communications director who honed her craft in the trenches of Democratic political campaigns, rather than the morning show-wooing confines of a typical glossy.
Serena Torrey, who recalls skipping school to attend Bill Clinton's first inauguration, spent six years in the ...