MPA head's salary is too rich for some magazines blood

In the wake of reports that Hachette Filippachi (Elle, Car & Driver etc.), American Media (National Enquirer, Star, Shape, Men's Fitness etc.) and New York magazine have quit the Magazine Publishers of America, the leading magazine association in the U.S., comes word via Gawker, the Manhattan media blog, that Nina Link, the president of the MPA makes $740,000 a year. A story in the New York Observer said that membership in the MPA cost Hachette and American Media between $300,000 and $400,000 each a year.