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******* Brian Farnham, editor-in-chief of Time Out New York, is leaving to join an as-yet-unnamed Internet startup company, Time Out New York president and group publisher Alison Tocci announced today. Farnham, who joined TONY in 2006 after working at Details, will be replaced by deputy editor Michael Friedson . “I can’t say much about it right now except that it’s an incredibly big, exciting idea,” Farnham said Tuesday. “It was not an easy decision to leave TONY and a job I have absolutely loved, but this was a chance to do what [Time Out founder] Tony Elliott did 40 years ago—create something out of nothing and really put your stamp on it."? MORE ONLINE
2. New York Post
THE North Jersey Media Group, publisher of The Record of Bergen County, NJ, is cutting 50 people this week as it prepares to sharply curtail its commercial printing business, which handled print jobs for everything from the Financial Times to The Irish Echo. After the cuts, only USA Today, which uses North Jersey Media Group's printing presses to print the Northeast regional edition of its daily newspaper, will remain. The Financial Times actually precipitated the crisis when it told the company late last year that it would be switching printers to AFL Web Printing in Secaucus in mid-March. MORE ONLINE
3. WWD
AWARDS, PLEASE: Third time's a charm for Glamour vice president and publisher William Wackermann. The executive was given the Publisher of the Year award from Cond? Nast Publications chief executive officer Chuck Townsend Tuesday night during dinner at the annual publishers' meeting. Wackermann had been passed over for the top honors two years in a row, losing out to Vogue publishing director Tom Florio and Lucky vice president and publisher Gina Sanders (who was publisher of Teen Vogue two years ago). Wackermann earlier this year received a promotion to senior vice president, publishing director, with additional oversight of Cond? Nast's Bridal Group. Glamour's ad pages grew 11 percent to 2,090 last year, boosted in part by the magazine's large marketing programs Reel Moments, Reel Music and Reel Docs. FISH OR FOUL?: The awards weren't the only big news to come out of the Cond? Nast publishers' meeting: Richard Beckman will never eat fish again. The Cond? Nast Media Group president thought he was going to have an uneventful dinner with colleagues Monday night at the meeting in Palm Beach, Fla. Instead, he ended up in the hospital. Beckman was dining on a fillet of red snapper when a bone got lodged in his throat. "It was really scary," said Beckman, who coughed out the bone. "When you're looking down at your hands and they're covered in blood, it's scary," he added in graphic understatement. Tom Florio, Vogue's senior vice president and publishing director, accompanied Beckman to the hospital, where technicians examined him, took X-rays and released him within an hour. Beckman gave his presentation to Cond? executives on Tuesday afternoon, and laughed about the incident afterward. "It's amazing the lengths that my competitors will go to," he joked. Monday's accident wasn't the first time Beckman has bitten off more than he can chew — around the time he was named publisher of Vogue, he choked on a sole bone while eating at The Four Seasons. "I'm eating steak from now on," he declared. But, presumably, he's still being circled by sharks. DELUXE MOVE: Portfolio has hired its first European correspondent. Dana Thomas, Newsweek's Paris-based European fashion and culture writer, will join the magazine on Friday. Thomas leaves Newsweek after 12 years at the magazine, and has contributed to The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine and The Washington Post during her career. The author's name has become familiar thanks to her best-selling book, "Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster," which takes a critical (and some luxury executives insist inaccurate) look at the business of high-end retailing. Thomas wasn't invited to October's Louis Vuitton show during Paris Fashion Week because chief executive Yves Carcelle was upset by her critique of LVMH chief Bernard Arnault. "He said, 'I don't like that you compared the company to McDonald's,'" Thomas explained to WWD. "I didn't say it was like McDonald's as a product, but like McDonald's in that your label is one of the most recognizable in the world." Thomas said she and Carcelle have since mended their relationship, but she will not be at this year's Vuitton show — or any shows in New York or Europe — because she will continue her book tour in New Zealand, Hong Kong and Argentina MORE ONLINE
4. The Star
Yesterday's other elite liberal primary (the other one being the Kennedy primary) was conducted by editors of the New Republic, who canvassed an eclectic group of cultural big-shots on their picks for president. Surprisingly, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz isn't backing Harvard law alum Barack Obama. He picks Hillary Clinton, in part because she hasn't pandered to the Democratic party's left wing. Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter tries a tad too hard to impress with the following: "Not a Bush. Not a Clinton. Not a governor. Not a religious zealot. Not an actor. And certainly not a former mayor. In fact, most of the people I would vote for, save one, aren't even on the ballot." Presumably that means Obama. Barack Obama may actually think he walks on air. Well, he did compare himself to Michael Jordan in a recent published interview with Newsweek's Jonathan Alter. Alter: You're clearly not comfortable taking part in what Bill Clinton called the "contact sport" of politics. Obama: It's not my preference. Do you remember when (Michael) Jordan's Bulls were playing the Detroit Pistons? (The Pistons) would just knock 'em around ... But until the Bulls learned to push back, it was going to be hard for them to win. It's not something I shy away from, but not something I relish. We're not going to back down. MORE ONLINE
************ JOBS ...that Brandweek Online is looking for an editor who can write, edit, work the phones to scare up story leads, and post stories online. Slackers need not apply. Contact twasserman@brandweek.com. (OK to mention Ed) For even more jobs, go to ed2010.com/jobs/whisperjobs/list or click here. INTERNSHIPS ...that Parenting magazine is still on the hunt for an organized, motivated intern to assist in the lifestyle and general edit departments beginning in early February. If you are as eager to open mail as you are to write and research, you?ll get to do both. Experience on a magazine staff very helpful: Have you called in products, trafficked samples, fact-checked, and interviewed experts and real people? Do you have an interest in families and kids, as well as beauty and fashion, food, toys, health, and arts and crafts? Parenting is a busy but supportive environment?you must be willing to learn but ready to work! Internship is either full-time and paid OR part-time and for credit. Please indicate which you are seeking; send resumes and cover letters to meredith.bodgas@bonniercorp.com. (Definitely mention Ed!) For even more internships, go to ed2010.com/ed-campus/internships/list or click here.
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