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******* ******* ******* Go ahead, tour our offices, check out our stuff. And have your work reviewed by some of the best art directors around. We'll do our best to get you ready for the field of magazine design... although really we're just scouting out our future competition. The Details: FREE for all student members! All others pay $15. Or join at the event for $25. We'll be touring: ESPN The Magazine, The New York Times, SELF, Spin, Sports Illustrated, and others! More details here: http://spdstudents.blogspot.com/2008/02/hope-we-see-you-tonight.html 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.
******* PRESSURING THE BOARD: As shareholders prepare to gather for Time Warner Inc.'s annual meeting on May 16, 12 stockholding organizations have a proposal up for a vote that the post of chairman and chief executive officer be split. The proposal states that it is often in shareholders' best interests to separate the positions, as conflicts of interest arise when one person holds both posts. 24-HOUR PARTY PEOPLE: Editor in chief Dan Peres flew into Los Angeles for 24 hours last week to host the third annual Details Mavericks party in Beverly Hills. "I love doing this event, but right now I would much rather be at home with my wife and newborn son. I'm doing very short trips these days," he said. And how: Peres even cuts transatlantic trips short, this week jetting in and out of Milan in 24 hours for a dinner with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. On his latest cover subject, Ryan Seacrest, Peres was quick to peg him as "a successful, shrewd businessman who remains in the public eye in the most positive sense." Peres, along with co-hosts and Mavericks Ben Silverman, Charlie Walk and Seacrest (all clad in Versace), mingled among a crowd that included Eric Mabius, Dylan McDermott, Carson Daly, Don Cheadle, David Spade, Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and the cast of "The Office." The guys outnumbered the gals, although Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Lindsay Price, Kim Kardashian, January Jones and Jennifer Esposito helped redress the imbalance. THERE SURE ARE A LOT OF AWARDS: The magazines with the most bragging rights in the James Beard Foundation Awards nominations, unveiled Monday, were Saveur, Gourmet, GQ and New York, each with three. (One of Gourmet's was for its television show, "Diary of a Foodie"). There were few surprises in that regard — two of New York's nominations, a feature on street food in Manhattan and its Grub Street blog, also are up for National Magazine Awards. GQ food critic Alan Richman is up for his 22nd nomination, and he's already won 12 over the years. REALLY, SINCE WHEN DID TRUTH MATTER?: Pranks are particularly beloved of men's magazines — perhaps because they secretly want to telegraph that they're somehow too clever for the whole glossy magazine thing, or because they want to grab elusive male attention with schoolboy humor. These are two possible reasons for a February GQ story about a trend of animal aggression against humans that, after nearly 10,000 words of self-referential tangents and apparently reported interludes, revealed at the end that most of it had been made up. To quote author John Jeremiah Sullivan directly: "Big parts of this piece I made up. I didn't want to say that, but the editors are making me, because of certain scandals in the past with made-up stories, and because they want to distance themselves from me. Fine." MORE ONLINE 2. Daily NewsMags watching Ashton with disbelief By Rush & Molloy March 25, 2008 http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/03/25/2008-03-25_mags_watching_ashton_with_disbelief.html Ashton Kutcher has promised that his new show, "Pop Fiction," will "turn the tables" on star-chasing mags by having celebs peddle them fake news. But so far, weekly mag editors say they aren't scared. One editor sneers, "Ashton's not a journalist. One of the stories was about Avril Lavigne being pregnant. But everyone watched her in Miami, and reporters caught her drinking. A fake belly doesn't get by us. "There's nothing these people do that we don't know about before they get there. We know everything. Ninety percent of their lives are put together by other people. It's almost like these celebs have LoJack. It's easy to track them. " MORE ONLINE
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Jennifer Lopez's twin babes helped people.com break records in terms of traffic to its Web site on Thursday, the day the issue hit newsstands. People.com hit an all-time high of four million daily unique visitors who viewed the first picture of babies Max and Emme online from the magazine's exclusive photo shoot with Lopez and husband Marc Anthony. The four-million visitors was nearly double the number of people who went to the site when the news broke Feb. 22 that J.Lo had given birth. On average, the site gathers about two million visitors daily; on the day after this year's Academy Awards, a day most people go to the site to check out the red-carpet fashions, People recorded 2.49 million uniques.
4. Folio
Healthy Cooking, a bi-monthly magazine from the Reader's Digest Association's Taste of Home brand, hits newsstands this week, replacing the soon-to-be-shuttered Light and Tasty. The new magazine will launch with a rate base of 500,000, picking up Light and Tasty's 500,000 subscriber list. Suzanne Grimes, president, food and entertaining at RDA, says the title will be primarily subscription-based but will sell at newsstand with a cover price of $3.99. Healthy Cooking will include the same volume of user-submitted recipes as its predecessor but will also include original, healthy lifestyle editorial. Another distinction is that Light and Tasty "was not as healthy as Healthy Cooking will be," says Grimes. "What constituted healthy a few years ago is different from today." Light and Tasty launched in 2001. MORE ONLINE 5. FolioHachette to Publish Ty Pennington at Home By Dylan Stableford March 24, 2008 http://www.foliomag.com/2008/hachette-publish-ty-pennington-home Taking a page out of the television personality-to-magazine brand playbook perfected by Rachael Ray, Hachette today announced that Ty Pennington at Home—launched as a one-off by the company last year—will be published by Hachette with a circulation of 500,000. Hachette president Jack Kliger says the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition star has “enormous personal appeal to a large American audience, and, judging from the good performance of the first issue last year, we expect this magazine to sell well both on the newsstand and through subscriptions.” The magazine’s debut issue was released on May 15, 2007—10 days after Pennington was arrested on suspicion of D.U.I. in Los Angeles. MORE ONLINE
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Traditional media companies trying to stem the flow of advertising dollars to Google and other large Internet companies are increasingly building ad networks of their own, anchored by their brands. The latest, Forbes Inc., is expected to announce Monday that it will start selling ads this spring for about 400 financial blogs. In recent months, Conde Nast, Viacom Inc., CBS Corp. and other major media companies also have unveiled topic-specific ad networks to lure advertisers that want to buy more ads than any single site can sell. If newspapers, magazines and broadcasters cannot expand online ad inventory, they are "under threat of becoming less and less relevant to the advertiser," said Russ Fradin, chief executive of Adify Corp., whose technology runs ad networks for Forbes and others. MORE ONLINE ******* Perfect your pitching online 2008 Raise Your Voices: An Intensive Nonfiction Writing Retreat for
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************ JOBS ...that Simply Good Media is looking for a freelance photo editor/graphic designer to edit photos and conduct photo research, create/develop banners and images, and monitor the overall appearance of our sites. Please send a short bio and a link to your portfolio/clips to blogs@simplygoodmedia.com. Make sure to include your name, city, and e-mail address. This is a paid position. (OK to mention Ed) For even more jobs, go to http://www.ed2010.com/jobs/whisperjobs or click here. INTERNSHIPS ...that GQ, the award-winning men's magazine, is looking for several editorial interns to come in at least three days a week during the summer. Selected interns will have the opportunity to assist editors and writers editorially and administratively. As such, ideal applicants must have excellent research skills, a positive can-do attitude, as well as an affinity for the publication. Interns are not required to receive credit, but they will receive a weekly stipend. Please send a cover letter, resume and a maximum of three published clips to JP Mangalindan, JP_Mangalindan@condenast.com. Include "Summer Internship Applicant" in the subject line as well as your availability and potential start date. (OK to mention Ed) For even more internships, go to http://www.ed2010.com/ed-campus/internships/list or click here. *FINE PRINT:
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meeting with an editor in chief, you must buy a raffle ticket. Ticket sales will only be accepted by junior-level editors and recent graduates (defined as two years from your undergraduate or graduate school graduation date). Tickets can be purchased at the Ed2010 happy hour at The Village Pourhouse between 7 p.m. and 8:29 p.m. Tickets are $3 at the event. No one person can buy more than 10 tickets to each raffle. On each ticket, you must write your full name, job title (if not employed, say "unemployed") and email address. Winners will be drawn at random at the Ed2010 Happy Hour at The Village Pourhouse on March 25th at 8:30 p.m. Tickets will also be sold online for $4 each. Online tickets will be incorporated into tickets sold at the event; on the Pay Pal form you MUST include your current
job title to prove that you are a junior editor and/or your graduation date from college. Tickets that are incomplete and job title or graduation date is not indicated will NOT be entered into the raffle. Tickets will be sold online until 6 p.m. on the day of the event. You do not have to be present to win; we will contact you via your email address. If you do not respond within 7 days to the e-mail announcing that you won, another winner will be drawn at random in your place. Ed2010 will send out an introductory e-mail to you and the EIC, and exchange contact information, but will not make scheduling arrangements—that is the winner's responsibility. Meetings are valid for 6 months after winning. In case of unforeseen circumstances, Ed2010 reserves the right to substitute the EIC with whom the
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