Keith J. Kelly

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More change, more turmoil sweep Time Inc.

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Published Jan. 30, 2015, 1:00 a.m. ET

More turmoil swept over Time Inc. on Thursday.

For starters, rumors were flying that Entertainment Weekly’s top editor Matt Bean was being offered a “bigger job” at Time Inc. after only a year running EW.

There was no official confirmation of that rumor, however.

Bean, who moved over from Sports Illustrated when Jess Cagle was promoted from EW to the top job at People, could not be reached for comment.

One source said he was reluctant to make a second move.

The company did reveal Thursday that Ariel Foxman, the In Style editor, is being promoted to editorial director of the magazine he has headed for the past five years — and is adding responsibility for another fashion title, StyleWatch.

As part of the changes on Thursday, the founding editor of StyleWatch, Susan Kaufman, was given the old heave-ho. StyleWatch had officially launched in 2007 as People StyleWatch but lost its moorings in that group in a reorganization last year that put it with other monthlies in a group overseen by Executive Vice President Evelyn Webster.

The strategy is clearly to put fashion under one umbrella for editorial and advertising.

As part of the shuffle, InStyle Publisher Nina Lawrence will also oversee StyleWatch — Stephanie Sladkus remains as StyleWatch publisher, but with a new boss.

At Sports Illustrated, the changes that shook up the editorial side last week spilled into the advertising side this week as the Golf magazine ad sales team got absorbed into Sports Illustrated.

Dick Raskopf, 57, a 32-year veteran of Time Inc., was out as publisher of SI’s Golf Group. He could not be reached for comment.

At least four people on the Golf ad sales team were let go, sources said.

Webster said the changes to the sports portfolio are “designed to build upon the group’s momentum by allowing it to further leverage its resources and scale.”

SI and People were two titles that were prominently mentioned when the company recently unveiled Daily Cut, its new video platform that contains 35,000 videos and 1,500 hours of programming of such shows as SI Live and People Live.