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******* EdSchool presents: How to pitch (for staff meetings, interviews and articles!) This one-night seminar with mag freelancer and teacher Eric Butterman will have you turning staff pitch meetings into cover stories, emails into freelance articles and interviews into jobs. Previous Butterman classes helped land students editor positions at Quick & Simple and Oprah's O at Home—one even led to a $4,000 article!Details:Wednesday, Feb. 20 from 7-9pm at American National Standards Institute, 25 W. 43rd Street, The Federation Room. Cost: $35 To Sign Up: RSVP to freelance@ed2010.com is REQUIRED. You'll get an email back with the PayPal URL. BTW, Ed doesn't endorse the random non-Ed advertisement you see at the top of the newsletter. It's just what happens when you use a free e-newsletter service.
******* After 10 years in print, ESPN The Magazine is finally getting its own Web site. Today, the company launched ESPNthemag.com, the first site dedicated exclusively to the magazine. “It was time,” says Robbyn Footlick, the magazine’s executive editor of multimedia. “A big ESPN initiative right now is focusing on developing all its content across all its platforms, so now seemed the right time to build out the magazine’s content online, including video.” The new site has been programmed like a TV network, Footlick explains, with a focus on what she calls “lunchtime programming” and updates throughout the day through blogs (what appears to be ESPN’s most aggressive blogging initiative to date) and a news infographic called “The World According to Us.” The site also features magazine content, online-exclusive stories and video. MORE ONLINE
2. New York Magazine
When Carine Roitfeld, the editor of French Vogue, styles a fashion shoot, she does not start with the clothes. She looks first at the model and comes up with a story: Perhaps this girl has married young and taken a lover. Perhaps she married young, has taken three lovers, and is about to go to Brazil. Perhaps she lives in London and is bored to death with mad cow disease and wants desperately to eat a great, juicy piece of steak. “I do a movie in my mind,” she says. “Who is this girl?” One cold, bright December morning, her own story is this: She is a fiftyish woman having a double espresso in the lobby of the Carlyle on Madison Avenue. “For me, it is best to be the youngest in hotel,” she explains, “and I was not having this feeling at the Mercer.” She has come to New York for her son Vladimir’s 23rd birthday, which she celebrated the night before with dinner at Indochine. “It makes me happy because there is vewy gweat lighting,” she says about the restaurant. “Vewy flatter.” (Roitfeld has reached a compromise with the hard American r by converting them all to ws.) She was especially pleased with the lighting because of a disfiguring recent visit to the dermatologist. “I am monster,” she explains, gesturing at an infinitesimal dot on her nose. MORE ONLINE
3. Portfolio.com
Welch was the Army attorney who put a stake through McCarthyism with his famous "Have you no sense of decency?" outburst. Now a growing chorus of voices is demanding the same of People, Us Weekly, TMZ, and all the other outlets that trade on the private lives of public figures -- even figures who are medically incapable of defending themselves. The catalyst for this is, appropriately enough, someone whose rise to fame ushered in the current era of tabloid insanity: Britney Spears. Writing in the Los Angeles Times last week, Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and People contributor, argued that the time has come for organizations with any pretensions to responsibility must stop chasing Spears, who is widely reported to be suffering from serious mental illness. "By exploiting Spears' moment of vulnerability, media companies have crossed the line of basic moral decency," wrote Nomani, whose brother was diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder. "Enough. Time Warner Inc. (parent of CNN, People, AOL and Entertainment Weekly), News Corp. (the Rupert Murdoch firm that owns Fox News and papers around the globe) and others should halt all coverage of Spears until she is healthy. Let's leave Britney and her family alone." MORE ONLINE
4. WWD
Moscow in frigid midwinter is hardly the party destination of choice for the fashion and Hollywood flock. But on Thursday, Valentino, Diane von Furstenberg, Lucy Liu, Mario Testino, Eva Herzigova, Natalie Imbruglia and others gathered in an ice palace on the snowy grounds of an estate built by Catherine the Great for the Love Ball, a benefit for Russian model Natalia Vodianova's charity. Guests at the Valentine's Day party arrived by train to a reception in a regal gold-columned hall. Russians predominated, including billionaire oligarchs; the "Russian Paris Hilton" socialite Ksenia Sobchak, and President Vladimir Putin's spokesman. One advantage of Vodianova choosing her home country soon became clear: Foreign guests were staggered at the amount of money Russia's extravagant rich dropped at the auction. The wife of a mayor of a small Russian town paid $660,000 to appear in a British Vogue photo shoot with Vodianova and Herzigova; the last look from Valentino's final couture show sold for $880,000; Rustam Tarikov, the head of a vodka firm, forked over $470,000 to choose the name of a newly discovered orchid. In total, the event raised over $5 million for the charity, which builds playgrounds in Russian cities. And Vodianova, who hosted a dinner the night before sponsored by Imperia Vodka, wasn't above stirring rumors in order to get the bidding up. Early in the evening she dismissed speculation she was retiring as a model by saying, "I'm not leaving the catwalk. I'm friends with a lot of designers, and I can't turn them down. But I'll never do a whole catwalk season again." Across a continent and an ocean the night before, a party to mark the (Auction) RED, which took place at Sotheby's the next evening, drew an eclectic group of designers (Phillip Lim, Narciso Rodriguez, Francisco Costa, Patrick Robinson, Donna Karan, and Derek Lam), rock stars (Jon Bon Jovi, Patti Smith), big-time businessmen (Rupert Murdoch, Tom Freston, Barry Diller) and royalty (Queen Noor). MORE ONLINE
5. WWD
MEN ABOUT TOWN: With the Oscars on Sunday, the Milan shows are proving to be light on major celebrities of the A-list Hollywood variety. So instead of Emily Blunt, for example, the paparazzi had James Blunt, the pretty-boy British singer, headlining the front row at Emporio Armani on Sunday. RESTRICTIONS APPLY: Cathy Horyn is back in the penalty box at Giorgio Armani. The New York Times scribe was informed by a letter from the Italian designer she would not be invited to his signature show on Monday because of what she had written about his couture show last January. Specifically, Armani charged that Horyn "belittled" his family and friends in her description of the preshow scene. At Jil Sander Monday night, Horyn declined all comment, but detailed the banning in her blog, writing, "I don't really buy any of it, though — not the delay and certainly not the old-fashioned practice of restricting journalists [in a digital age] from shows." A year ago, Armani and the fashion critic had a spat over Horyn's description of a trouser style. LOVE LETTERS: Moschino turned to Lapo Elkann to get its message across about Love Moschino, formerly the Moschino Jeans line. "Lapo's advertising agency, Independent Ideas, is made up of a group of young, creative minds, more in line, I believe, with our final consumer, than more established agencies," said Moschino creative director Rossella Jardini. MORE ONLINE
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