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******* It's a magazine that runs 10,000-word articles on African states and the pension system, has almost no pictures and is published in black and white. So how does the New Yorker sell more than a million copies a week? Gaby Wood meets David Remnick, its big-brained editor, and talks speed writing, 30-hour days and meeting Little Ant and Little Dec. 'Everybody has a cartoon of themselves,' suggests David Remnick, the editor of a magazine famous for them. 'Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.' As New Yorker cartoons go, the image wouldn't appear to hold much promise of a punch line, but Remnick doesn't mind it, and it contains, after all, a certain amount of truth. 'I'm not the slowest writer that you know,' he admits, adding with characteristic wryness: 'For better or for worse, by the way. AJ Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.' MORE ONLINE
2. WWD
FAIRING WELL: Vanity Fair is already benefiting from its coup of publishing the first photos of Suri Cruise, love child of couch-jumping actor Tom Cruise and fianc?e Katie Holmes. The October issue featuring a 22-page photo spread of the Cruise clan shot by Annie Leibovitz hit newsstands Sept. 6 in New York and Los Angeles, but readers living between the two cities could view the photos online at vanityfair.com late Tuesday night. The nationwide obsession with baby TomKat drove a whopping 4.3 million page views on vanityfair.com on Wednesday, according to a spokeswoman, nearly three times more than the previous record for page views when the title posted b-roll of Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson from Tom Ford's Hollywood issue in February. VF also signed up 4,000 subscriptions on Wednesday, its largest one-day total, from that day's 1.9 million unique visitors. No doubt a special offer that guaranteed receipt of the October issue to new subscribers (while supplies last) helped pique interest. On Thursday, the Web site attracted 1.1 million page views, 465,000 unique visitors and 1,700 new subscribers. Comparatively, vanityfair.com averages about 60,000 page views and about 20,000 uniques a day. Meanwhile, details keep emerging about exactly how Vanity Fair managed to keep its exclusive under wraps. Joe Bertolino, a vice president at Comag Market Group, which distributes the magazine, said the operation was three weeks in the making, with his team only being clued in at the last possible moment. He credited Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter with masterminding the exclusive — neither Carter's staff nor consumer marketing were allowed to see the images ahead of time — noting that one security detail hired from a private firm had caught an infiltrator at a distribution point. Bertolino said the individual was from a competing weekly magazine, and though he declined to name it, added it was not owned by a "reputable" magazine company. MORE ONLINE
3. The New York Times
THERE was a stretch there — well, O.K., about a decade — when The New Republic fell out of the conversation. Long a Beltway touchstone, the thin little weekly with a soft spot for policy and fresh-faced Harvard grads seemed to lose momentum and then became a magazine of pure polemic at precisely the moment that blogs made argument ubiquitous, clickable and much more of a conversation. The magazine was vulnerable in part because it was so caught up in being transgressive and contrarian: a position here on Bosnia, there on Iraq and way over there on Israel. The growth of the blogs rendered The New Republic a curio, like the Sunday morning political shows, an artifact of political commentary that took six days to download after events actually took place. After a time, the institution that once bragged that it was the in-flight magazine of Air Force One seemed to become a Skymall catalog on the “Lieberman for Senate” campaign plane. In an effort to recast itself, the magazine moved steadily onto the Web with blogs of its own, articles and occasional newsbreaks. Franklin Foer, a talented young staff member and author of “How Soccer Explains the World,” was named editor, returning the magazine to narrative and a voice that offered a little hollandaise with all of those brussels sprouts. MORE ONLINE
4. The New York Times
Doubledown Media, the company behind Trader Monthly, a successful magazine for financial traders, is to announce today that it is introducing a new magazine for investment bankers. The company will also begin a partnership with The Wall Street Journal Europe. The new magazine, called Dealmaker, will make its debut in the United States in November and in Europe next spring. Over the last three years, Trader Monthly has exploited a formula of showing how traders make — and especially spend — their money. As a result, it has been able to attract both financial industry and luxury goods advertising. The company hopes to replicate that success with Dealmaker and predicts about 50 pages of advertising in the first issue. So far, 20 advertisers have signed on. MORE ONLINE
5. Almost Girl
I don’t think I have ever been more terrified in my entire life. As much as I talk a lot of shit about numbers being the only arbiter of access in an ideal new media world I still harbor a lot of fear. I know that I am only in my position because of luck, timing, and very little aversion to risk. I talk smack about KCD because I know that they can’t hold us off forever: there are more of us than there are of them and this time the barbarians are out for good. I know that numbers don’t lie because well the economists at the University of Chicago told me so. But still when I arrived early for Costello Tagliapetra and saw Anna Wintour alone in the front row I didn’t think I had the guts to go up and interview her. I had already tried at Rag and Bone and she waved us off. But heart pounding I steeled myself, left Patryk in the pit, and requested to ask her a few basic questions. She didn’t want to talk about collections because it was too early in the week but I assured her I was interested in her experience and not her opinions on current fashion. Ever the consummate professional she agreed. I ran for Patryk, grabbed my mic and stuttered in. I got in a few questions that for the life of me I don’t remember and just as Anna said “well I wish that people would ask interest questions” and my mind brimmed with possibility Kelley Cutrone swooped in and demanded “End it now.” MORE ONLINE
6. MarketWatch
If you want an indication of how the world seems to view the newsweekly magazines these days, consider what happened Thursday on "Charlie Rose." The nightly talk show, a haven for intellectual discourse and analysis, featured a genuine coup: a joint interview with Jon Meacham and Rick Stengel, the new top editors of Newsweek and Time, respectively. Bitter rivals for decades, these magazines are viewed as the Athens and Sparta of publishing (though, no doubt, each would insist that the inferior other guy deserved to have the less attractive designation). Even with the promise of Meacham and Stengel verbally tearing one another limb from limb, Rose concluded that their appearance didn't merit what he fondly calls The Full Hour. The PBS version of MTV's "Celebrity Deathmatch" was reduced to a segment carrying a running time of not-quite a half hour. To add insult to injury, it ran during the second half of the hour-long broadcast. Rose reserved the more coveted time slot for Ted Koppel. MORE ONLINE
7. New York Post
James Dunning, a publishing entrepreneur who once made a pitch to buy the New York Mets, is the new chairman of Doubledown Media, publisher of Trader Monthly. He succeeds the original London-based backer, Magnus Greaves, a former British trader who had served as chairman. Greaves, however, remains affiliated with the company through a minority stake and will be in charge of overseeing expansions aimed at the Middle East and the Far East. Greaves is believed to have invested $5 million in the two-year-old company. MORE ONLINE
8. Mediaweek
After 9/11, with a nation feeling helpless and vulnerable, a revival in inspirational content spread through magazines and other media. Five years on—with not only the anniversary of the terror attacks, but tragedies including the daily body count in Iraq and Afghanistan and the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina dominating headlines—edifying content continues to flourish, as consumers thirst for uplifting stories and once-wary advertisers see the light. Among the titles leading this faith-based movement: Washington Post Co.’s Newsweek. Explained Newsweek.com editor Deidre Depke, “There is clearly an appetite among Americans for a conversation about religion and faith in America, and over the past five years, in the post-9/11 time frame, that has been made all the more obvious. Religion is a constant theme of what’s going on in the news.” Earlier this year, the 3.14 million-circ newsweekly teamed with ecclesiastical Web site Belief.net to poll Americans on subjects ranging from their prayer habits to their views on the afterlife, with findings reported in the weekly column Belief Watch. The magazine already had a regular religion column, The Spiritual State, started two years ago. And over the past year, Newsweek has churned out a range of cover stories pertaining to beliefs, including “Spirituality in America,” “The Making of the Mormons” and “The Mystery of Mary Magdalene,” timed to the release of the film The Da Vinci Code. This week’s edition features an examination of faith in the lives of Baby Boomers. MORE ONLINE
************ ... that Departures Magazine, a luxury travel and lifestyle magazine published by American Express Publishing, is looking for an energetic and enthusiastic fall photo intern. Applicants should be able to commit at least 2 days per week, be interested in photography and/or a major in photography. Good computer skills (Mac) a must. The position is for school credit only. Please email a brief cover letter and resume to Brandon Perlman, Brandon.J.Perlman@aexp.com. (OK to mention Ed) ... that CosmoGIRL! is looking for an intern for the Reader Services Department to start ASAP. Candidate must be able to receive college credit for this unpaid internship! Duties include pitching ideas for reader giveaways, corresponding with PR companies, calling in prizes, reading and responding to reader mail, and sending out win-its that appear in the magazine. Intern may also be asked to participate in intern "projects" throughout the semester. Looking for someone who is organized and enthusiastic about interacting with the CosmoGIRL!'s readers and want to get a sense of how the magazine operates. An interest in teen magazines is a MUST! Intern should be available to work 2 or 3 full days per week. Those who are interested should email a resume and cover letter to Jill Percia at jpercia@hearst.com. (OK to mention Ed) ... that Irish America, America's premier lifestyle magazine for the Irish-American community, is looking for an intern, 1-2 days a week. Duties include research, fact checking and some writing. The position is unpaid, but interns will get clips. If interested, please email declanirishamag@yahoo.com with your resume. (OK to mention Ed) ... that Time Inc. Content Solutions (read: custom publishing) is looking for a part-time fall editorial intern. The intern would assist editors who manage several high-end custom magazines commissioned by major companies. Duties would include story research, small writing assignments, and some unsexy but essential administrative tasks. The internship is modestly paid, but schedules are flexible and it's a great learning environment for a budding magazine person. Prior editorial experience necessary. E-mail resume and a sharp cover letter to Sarah Alger: sarah_alger@timeinc.com. ... that Life & Style Weekly still has several openings for interns who want to join a fast-paced, celebrity-obsessed, style-savvy editorial staff this fall. Interns must be able to work a minimum of two days each week, and it is preferable that they receive college credit. Among various administrative duties, interns will be required to assist with a multitude of tasks in each department. These include Nexis and other related research for news and feature stories, doing field work to gather information for the magazine, helping in the fashion and beauty closet, various organizational tasks, updating files of weekly magazine coverage, putting together the daily celebrity news packets that get distributed to the office, and, in time, much more. Life & Style Weekly is located in Englewood Cliffs, NJ - just a hop, skip and a jump (by public transportation) across the George Washington Bridge. Please send a cover letter and resume ASAP to Barbara Seigel, associate features editor, at bseigel@bauerpublishing.com for consideration. (OK to mention Ed) ... that Life & Style Weekly also has an opening for an intern to help on the magazine’s new blog (lifeandstylemag.com). Duties will include researching transcripts, making connections with other blogs via email, helping to implement a shopping component to the site, some red carpet reporting and various other duties. Again, interns must be able to work a minimum of two days each week, and it is preferable that they receive college credit. Life & Style Weekly is located in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Please send a cover letter and resume to Barbara Seigel, associate features editor, at bseigel@bauerpublishing.com for consideration. (OK to mention Ed)
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