Clay Felker, founding editor of New York magazine, dies at 82

Clay Felker, founder and former editor of New York magazine, The Village Voice and many other New York publications, died in his home today. He was 82.
Felker will be remembered by the journalism community as a "visionary editor who was widely credited with inventing the formula for the modern magazine," reads The New York Times obituary.

Mr. Felker edited a number of publications besides New York magazine. There were stints at Esquire, The Village Voice, Adweek, Manhattan, inc. and others. He created an opposite-coast counterpart to New York and called it New West.
But it was at New York that he left his biggest imprint on American journalism. He founded it as a Sunday supplement to The New York Herald Tribune in 1964. Four years later, after the newspaper closed, he and the graphic designer Milton Glaser reintroduced New York as a glossy stand-alone magazine.

For the full obituary read here.