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******* I was alarmed by what I saw and heard at the recent American Magazine Conference in Boca Raton, Fla. Simply put, this industry seems intent on choking itself to death. These days, I half-expect to open the New York Times* and see a story by Richard Perez-Pena saying, "The magazine publishing industry has died after a lengthy illness. A prolonged advertising shortfall triggered a massive crisis of confidence. The modern magazine industry in the U.S. began with the creation of Time in 1923, and it remains on display at the Newseum in Washington, D.C." (*Unless the New York Post's magazine-beat ace Keith J. Kelly gets the scoop first, as is his habit.) When I headed to the industry conference in late October, I had hoped to encounter editors and publishers brimming with ideas, enthusiasm and optimism. Yeah, right. With an air of desperation, this group resigned itself to spouting cliches about "embracing the Internet" and touting their cosmetic redesigns, which is something like covering an open gash with a skinny Band-Aid. MORE ONLINE
2. WWD
Former Cond? Nast Publications Inc. chief executive officer Steve Florio has been hospitalized and is seriously ill following a recent heart attack. Florio, 58, has a history of heart problems: he had surgery to replace a faulty valve in 1999 and a second surgery a few years later to correct a manufacturer's defect on the replacement valve. Florio retired from Cond? Nast in February 2004 and remained under contract with the company as vice chairman until January 2007. Since his retirement, he has served as adjunct professor at New York University, in the entertainment, media and technology program, and is an investor in Tutto Il Giorno, a restaurant in Sag Harbor, N.Y. A spokeswoman for Cond? Nast, which also owns WWD, said, "We wish and hope for a good recovery."
3. WWD
Had snark choked on its own success, or was it a protest against new media's page-view-for-pay business model? Whatever the reasons, Choire Sicha and Emily Gould, Gawker's managing editor and editor, respectively, were sounding distinctly more earnest on Friday afternoon, just after Gould announced on the site that they were quitting. Neither of them had jobs lined up at press time. "In my dreams I'm going to find a job reporting on fires," said Sicha. "But I'm a little creaky and old to do that." He added, "I just feel like, now that everyone sort of operates at the speed we do, who's actually going to do the stuff that takes some time or some reading?...Everything has become knee-jerk like we are." In other words, "There can be one TMZ, but if there are going to be eight TMZs, I want out." Gould struck a similar note. "Whatever Gawker originally set out to do, it kind of did, and now it just feels over," she said. "I would love it if it just fell off the face of the earth....I don't want to say the meanest thing or the most shocking thing possible anymore, because it gets so old and so soul-killing. There is stuff I really care about. I'm not interested in tearing it down as much as describing it." MORE ONLINE
4. WWD
Best Life is expanding its reach to more fashionable men over 35. The magazine will raise its rate base to 500,000 from 450,000 in January. As publisher Michael Wolfe explained, the half-million mark represents a significant landmark for the title. "It gives you a real stamp of power and legitimacy," he said. It also means the title surpasses Details in terms of circulation (that magazine's rate base is 425,000), but is still behind Esquire (700,000) and GQ (850,000). Best Life launched in 2004 with a rate base of 200,000. Meanwhile, the title will continue to deepen its focus on fashion via expanded sections and a change in its publishing calendar. Designer Eric Villency will open the front section of the magazine with style advice every issue, and the fashion section will include more product picks and profiles of designers, as well as their clothes. It will also publish a June-July double issue, as opposed to a July-August issue in previous years, and a stand-alone August issue in 2008. The change pushes forward the magazine's newsstand date so it can produce a stronger fall fashion preview issue in August. Best Life's new emphasis on fashion helped boost ad pages 37 percent this year, to 584, with the help of 99 new advertisers primarily in fashion, retail, jewelry and watches.
5. MediaWeek
Time Inc.’s All You continues to mine gold in budget-conscious women. The $1.97 monthly will hike its rate base to 900,000 in July 2008 after going to 800,000 in January. All You launched at 500,000 in 2004. At the same time, All You, whose Wal-Mart-only distribution model makes it unusual among consumer magazines, is going more conventional. To improve its credibility with advertisers, the lifestyle title this year joined the Audit Bureau of Circulations after getting the O.K. from Wal-Mart to release its issue-by-issue newsstand sales data. The most recent filing, the pub statement for the six months that ended Dec. 31, 2006, shows an average paid circ of 633,552, 26.7 percent over its then-500,000 rate base. Publisher Diane Oshin said newsstand sales topped the 500,000 mark for the first time with the November issue, which she credits with a greater emphasis by new editor Clare McHugh on seasonal and simplified cover images. All You posted a 1.6 percent gain in ad pages to 1,079 this year over ’06, per the Mediaweek Monitor, and Oshin said sales are off to a healthy start for ’08. MORE ONLINE
6. WWD
Cond? Nast Kremlinologists were eager to draw lines between the closure of House & Garden and the frequency increase of Vogue Living to two times a year — although House & Garden had more than enough woes on its own. And, at the very least, some of the shelter experience at House & Garden won't go unused at the company, which also owns WWD. Susan Egan, who was national home furnishings director at House & Garden, will now serve in a similar capacity at Vogue Living, working with its new publisher and Vogue associate publisher, Connie Anne Phillips. Another ad-side staffer, Ahu Terzi, has also joined the Vogue family as an account director at Men's Vogue. On the edit side, three junior staffers formerly at House & Garden have found a home in Vogue's fashion closet. Former House & Garden staff from editorial and advertising have landed at other Cond? Nast titles like Brides, W, Bon Appetit, and Golf Digest.
7. WWD
Hachette Filipacchi Media pulled an executive from its parent company's French offices to replace outgoing chief financial officer Antoine de Noyer. The company on Thursday named Philippe Perthuis as the U.S. division's new senior vice president-chief financial officer. Perthuis was most recently deputy director of finance for Lagard?re Active in Paris. Perthuis will take his new position Saturday. Noyer leaves the company after just over a year at his post.
8. New York Post
As we at Media City have long believed, men are far more complex than they're portrayed, and that is reflected in this week's crop of men's magazines, which cover everything from extreme trips to desirable women to raising kids. Esquire's sixth annual "genius" issue delivers its exclusive—an excerpt of which appeared in The Post—on NBC boy wonder Ben Silverman. He not only threw a party with caged white tigers but dissed Kevin Reilly, president of Fox Entertainment, and Steve McPherson, prez of ABC Entertainment, calling them "D-girls," a derogatory term for cute young development execs with no power. Elsewhere, the mag serves up a number of interesting, albeit nerdy, profiles of leading minds in math and science. On the lighter side is the requisite gift guide and a first-person account of David Vann's quest to sail around the world in a homemade boat. A perennial laggard among the men's mags, Details goes with a list of the 50 most influential men under 45 to help it boost readership. But it doesn't do itself any favors by picking Kevin Federline for the cover. The choice made us wonder whether Details has decided to abandon its core metrosexual readers. Our view was reinforced when we noticed a feature that asks, "Are you raising a douchebag?" MORE ONLINE
9. New York Post
Britney Spears (right with Paris Hilton) may have finally made a good decision. The train wreck, who hasn't done much publicity for her new album, "Blackout," besides her daily run to Starbucks to get photographed, has pulled the plug on a potential Rolling Stone cover, said an insider. Spears was close to signing a contract with editor and publisher Jann Wenner, to pose for the cover, but called off talks when the Wenner Media boss refused to promise her it would actually land on Rolling Stone instead of Us Weekly, said the insider. Last year, Nick Lachey was duped into believing Wenner's promise of a Rolling Stone cover and was furious when he landed on Us instead. "It was going to be a good platform for her music to be taken seriously because it had been so long. But she refused to get screwed by Wenner," said our source. "They kept negotiating, and it got nasty." Spears has contacted Blender magazine, and a deal is being worked out for a cover there, said the source. A rep for Rolling Stone said they were "exploring a cover" but never had a discussion about any kind of contract.
10. MediaWeek
With the success of Wikipedia, YouTube and other user-fueled Web sites, magazines are increasingly bowing to readers’ growing demand for ways to sound off in print and online. They run the gamut, from Bonnier Corp.’s WakeBoarding, which launched a site, MyWake.tv, where wakeboarders can post videos and images and talk with other participants in the sport, to Meredith Corp.’s Parents, which has been adding more reader voices through departments like Girls’ Night Out and Goody Bag. “The need for reader-generated content has accelerated massively, and it’s all to do with young mothers who are very confident in their opinions,” said Sally Lee, editor in chief, Parents. “They’re not afraid to say what they think.” Now, at least two magazines—Time Inc.’s This Old House and Newsweek Inc.’s Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel—are planning to turn over an entire issue to readers. For its June issue, Time Inc.’s 962,636-circ This Old House plans to have readers help decide topics and write stories about their home renovations. TOH is even soliciting new names for that issue. (The leading contender: Your Old House.) MORE ONLINE
11. WWD
Adam Moss finally figured out what to do with the back page of New York magazine. The slot was reserved for the crossword puzzle for the last two years, but on Monday that will be relocated to make room for a new feature, Artifact. The page will highlight "shards of random or illuminating data" that reflect current city life, Moss writes in his editor's letter. This week's first Artifact section includes a map of the number of foreclosures in New York City, but future sections could also include less graphical information, like snippets from a politician's speech, a menu from a new restaurant, or a thank you card from a celebrity donor to a charity. New York will also rename the listing section formerly known as The Week to Agenda. The magazine already has an e-mail newsletter of the same name, where subscribers receive daily event and culture listings, that launched in the spring.
12. Folio:
People magazine gets around. According to the latest report from Mediamark Research Intelligence (MRI), each copy of People is read by a median of 11.34 readers. With an audience size of 42.4 million and a circulation of 3.7 million, People dominates in readership against its top four competitors: Star ranks second in terms of readers per copy (6.95); Us Weekly is close by with 6.74 readers per copy; Entertainment Weekly (5.79) and In Touch (5.65) round out the category. Surprisingly, readers of Esquire-which distinguishes itself in its online media kit by touting "while other men's magazines are written for highly aspirational readers, Esquire is geared towards men who have arrived"-have the lowest median household income for adults ($53,783) among five of its top competitors. (To be fair, Esquire's readership has seen a marked increase in affluence since 2002, when it had a median income of $42,602). Men's Journal leads the pack with a median of $77,063, followed by Men's Health ($76,865), GQ ($68,746), Men's Fitness ($68,486) and Maxim ($65,614). Esquire's readers are also the oldest of the group, with a median age of 43.9 years. Maxim is on the low end, with a median age of 28.4 for adults. MORE ONLINE
************ Jobs ...that the online sibling to the weekly women’s magazine Quick & Simple is looking for an associate web editor (in-house freelance) to help with regular site updates along with special projects in conjunction with an upcoming relaunch. RESPONSIBILITIES: Regular upload of new content via a content-management system. Building weekly sweepstakes and contest entry pages (using web-based administrative tool). Selecting and cropping images for use in articles and other content. Assembling existing content into themed packages (e.g., for the holidays) and helping to construct a “top tips database” by extracting the best advice from archived articles. Writing original content (i.e., newsletters and video scripts) as necessary. SKILLS: Solid editorial judgment and writing abilities. Familiarity with basic HTML and Photoshop. Experience working at a content-driven website a plus. Contact bschmerl@hearst.com. (OK to mention Ed) ...that an author/editor needs an efficient, thorough researcher who can devote some time (approx. 10 hrs/wk) to helping with some projects. At first, the work will be mostly fact-checking, which will involve many phone calls, as well as internet-based research. But there are ongoing editorial projects, so if we work together well on these initial projects, I will have more to offer you in the future and may also be able to assign you articles for the magazine I edit, and refer you to other newspaper, magazine, and book editors. This is perfect for anyone interested in travel journalism and the tourism industry. Work from home; hours are flexible based on your schedule. Previous fact-checking experience is required. Please send a resume and/or a brief summary of your work experience to editorialresearch@gmail.com, and I'll send more info about the projects. Pay is $10/hr. *This is an official Ed2010 posting* ...that TheDailyCrossHatch.com, an influential and widely-read alternative comics site, is seeking freelance contributors to write reviews of independent comic books, mini-comics, and Webcomics. Must have an interest in the subject matter and examples of published work. Contributors are expected to turn in 1-3 reviews a week. Contact: dailycrosshatch@gmail.com. (OK to mention Ed) Internships ...that iVillage.com is looking for a hard-working, enthusiastic intern to join its entertainment team. You will be responsible for updating our various trackers, various links throughout the day as needed and help size celeb photos. Minimal transcribing and administrative tasks may be assigned. We may ask you to work on a variety of our blogs, including the potential to write TV show recaps. Depending on skill level, there may be additional opportunities to pitch and write. This is a fabulous opportunity for a talented college junior or senior who is looking to pursue a career in entertainment journalism. We need someone who has a passion for the Internet, is comfortable doing research on the Web, and has incredible attention to detail. Basic knowledge of Photoshop and HTML is highly preferred. Send resume and cover letter to jaclyn.garfinkel@nbcuni.com. (OK to mention Ed) ...that Sierra Magazine, the national magazine for the Sierra Club, is now looking for interns for its spring rotation (January through April). Interns sit in on all editorial meetings and perform a variety of research and fact-checking tasks for our editors. This position requires strong editorial skills and a well-rounded awareness of environmental issues. Interns are required to work 20 hours a week; however, the scheduling of these hours is at the intern's discretion. The position is unpaid, although we do offer a $600 stipend for the entire internship to pay for transportation and other expenses. Internship applicants should send a letter describing their qualifications and interests, along with a r?sum? and a brief writing sample, to: Sierra Magazine, Attn: Intern Manager, 85 Second St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, Fax: 415-977-5794, sierra.internships@sierraclub.org. In general, the most helpful writing samples show your ability to research facts, organize information, and interview a variety of sources. Journalistic samples are much preferred to research papers and personal essays. ...that GQ is looking for enthusiastic interns for the spring semester. Quality candidates should be motivated, detail-oriented, highly organized individuals with the ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment. Interns will work in our fashion closet - this is a superb opportunity to learn the inner workings of a fashion department. Email resumes to gqfashion_intern@yahoo.com. *Must be available on THURSDAYS. To be considered, you MUST include the specific days a week you are available starting in January. (OK to mention Ed) ...that Popular Photography & Imaging magazine is looking for an editorial intern for the winter/spring semester (mid January-May). The intern will work on ''The New Photographer Project,'' which consists of researching websites and publications to find talented new photographers to feature in the magazine. Responsibilities include: Scouring sources to find photographers, contacting and possible interviewing of photographers, and meeting with editors to present portfolio of work and discuss story ideas. Skills Necessary: Interest and some knowledge in photography, strong aesthetic sense, well organized, strong researcher, web savvy. Requires commitment of at least 8 hours per week. The candidate must be a student at the time of the internship. The position is unpaid. Send resume and a sample of two photos (from any photographer) that you think would fit in our magazine to popeditor@hfmus.com. ...that ELLE.com and ELLEgirl.com are looking for editorial interns for the spring semester. The ideal candidate will have previous internship experience at a magazine or website and strong working knowledge of (and passion for) the fashion, beauty, and entertainment industries. Must be extremely motivated, organized, willing to work on many projects at once, and available at least 3 days a week starting in early January. The right person will have a chance to assist many talented editors on all aspects of both sites' editorial content. Please note that interns will be working for both ELLE.com and ELLEgirl.com. Please send your resume and any relevant writing samples to rdavis2@hfmus with ELLE.COM/ELLEgirl.COM INTERNSHIP in the subject line. (OK to mention Ed) ...that the editorial department at Good Housekeeping magazine seeks sharp, enthusiastic interns to assist in day-to-day research, reporting, and brainstorming. The candidate must have an eye for detail and accuracy as well as be able to work under deadlines. In exchange for hard-work and effort, you will receive exceptional experience in magazine journalism and an open door of opportunity. Good Housekeeping is willing to work with your schedule, but you must commit to a minimum of 16 hours per week. This is an unpaid internship and individuals must receive college credit. Please send cover letter, resume, and availability to mmonzingo@hearst.com. (OK to mention Ed) ...that Family Circle is looking for interns for our beauty and fashion department for spring 2008. We are looking for someone who can work on Tuesdays and Thursdays and MUST be able to receive academic credit. Some of the intern’s daily responsibilities will include research, maintaining/organizing the beauty and fashion closets and products we receive, fact-checking, and some administrative work. There will be opportunities to attend photo shoots and press events. Contact dori.katz@meredith.com. (OK to mention Ed) ...that Inked is looking for a photo intern to report directly to the photography director and handle any and all aspects of photography for the magazines. Works with the photo director/creative director to produce all photo shoots for the magazine. Assists photographers on our photo shoots on a need be basis. Responsible for photo research and stock imagery collecting. Helps gather/return props for photo shoots. Photograph local events to be published in the magazine or on the website. Take video footage of our major photo shoots to be put on our website blog. Requirements: Must have a strong interest and some knowledge in photography. Knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign is a bonus. Also, must be detail oriented, organized, and a team player, and have a positive attitude and strong management skills. Internship is unpaid and starts immediately. Contact todd@inkedmag.com. (OK to mention Ed) ...that Details magazine is looking for Spring-semester interns for the EDITORIAL department. Starting in January and lasting through May. Internship is unpaid and the intern MUST receive college credit for the internship. Looking for interns who can spend 2.5+ days per week at our office (10AM - 6PM) in New York. Responsibilities include assisting editors with research, sorting mail, compiling newspaper clippings and working on editorial-related projects. Please Note: this is NOT a writing position. Interns must be organized, responsible, and able to multi-task. Experience with Lexis Nexis preferred. To apply please send resume and availability to detailsletters@condenast.com with INTERNSHIP in the subject line. 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