The magazine revives the name of an old Hearst publication.
Ironically, the trouble spots in the magazine group involve some of the most established Hearst publications.
Cosmopolitan, a Hearst publication and the leading women's monthly, rose by a modest 0.8 percent, to 3,007,000.
In its statement announcing the news, Hearst Publications did not disclose a cause.
At Esquire, which is now a Hearst publication, he was the magazine's advertising director from 1964 to 1970.
A few months later, he began working for Town & Country magazine, a Hearst publication, where his photographs still appear.
He was the publisher of Motor Magazine, a Hearst publication, since 1983.
Subscribers instead received issues of fellow Hearst publication, Seventeen.
For the last seven years he was a consultant to Sports Afield, a Hearst publication.
He was the features editor at House Beautiful, a Hearst publication, until August 2010.