Skipper instead went to SPIN magazine, becoming president of the Rolling Stone competitor, before eventually joining Disney's publications arm. "Then Jann decided that he'd made a mistake and said, 'Why don't you hire him back?' I said I don't think he'll come back." "He pissed Jann off, and Jann made me fire him," Brownridge said. Wenner at times would call his office, leave messages and never hear back. He proved to be a personable boss but didn't always manage up very well, Brownridge says. Jann Wenner, the longtime Rolling Stone publisher, described a well-liked, well-connected, social boss in the 2011 oral history on ESPN, Those Guys Have All the Fun: "He was fun to be with, he would sometimes smoke pot with me, and he's got that wry sense of humor, and that devotion to music."Īfter eight years, Skipper moved over to serve as publisher of another Wenner publication, US, which is now called Us Weekly. "He was a little bit shy, but he was obviously very smart - uncommonly smart." "He was this gangly, southern hippy from North Carolina," recalled Kent Brownridge, the longtime senior vice president and general manager for Wenner Media, which owns Rolling Stone.
Skipper never wrote the Great American Novel, but he quickly became a star in the publishing world. He started there as a secretary and enjoyed a meteoric rise. Skipper was wrapping up graduate school, and Rolling Stone was the coolest place in publishing to work.
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