PRIMEDIA NEWS

NY Times, April 18 -- Primedia Chief ResignsThomas S. Rogers, the chief executive of Primedia, which publishes New Yorkand Seventeen magazines, resigned yesterday over plans by the company'scontrolling investor to dismantle the business he was hired to build.The investor, the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, has decided to sellmuch if not all of Primedia over the next 18 to 24 months, executives closeto the company said yesterday.NY Times Article(free registration required).