The New Statesman US editor, Andrew Stephen, has resigned from the magazine following the arrival of editor Jason Cowley and the subsequent departure of a number of high-profile columnists.

Stephen, who was appointed US editor in 2001 after a stint as Washington correspondent and who has been a regular columnist since 1998, wrote to the New Statesman on September 23 confirming that he no longer wanted to contribute to the left-leaning weekly current affairs magazine.

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The long-running column by Darcus Howe and those by entertainer Julian Clary and Ziauddin Sardar have been cut, although a spokeswoman for the magazine said last month that all three would continue to contribute to the title, only not in regular columns.

Cowley has also hired James Macintyre from the Independent as a political correspondent. The political editor, Martin Bright, was retained at the New Statesman.

… more at the Media Guardian

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