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******* Us Weekly, the purveyor of everything celebrity related, is out to act as a wedding planner for those hordes of everyday folk seeking their own 15 minutes of fame. The magazine has partnered with WeddingChannel.com in a contest that will award a couple a megawedding, complete with a celebrity stylist, personal trainer and designer wedding dress. The winners' pictures will run in the Oct. 20 issue, as well as on the title's Web site and on WeddingChannel.com. Why would Us want to tread on ground already heavily plowed in a similar fashion by NBC's "Today" show? Us said the contest began as an idea from its edit staff — but now the title sees the chance to sell some ads in new categories. MORE ONLINE
2. WWD
Cond? Nast Traveler has hired Warren Ho as luxury goods director. Ho had been managing director for international advertising at The New York Times. He succeeds Daryl Bowman, who was promoted to advertising director. As for the nasty business downturn hitting the economy in general and the magazine world in particular, no one seems to have informed the traveling public: Vice president and publisher Lisa Hughes said the magazine is up 30 ad pages as of June and noted that the travel, airline, destination and business/financial categories are strong.
3. WWD
Move over, spring chickens. Femmes, a new French glossy targeting the mature woman, has hit newsstands. The launch issue of the Groupe Prisma Presse-owned monthly, which targets 40- to 45-year-olds, features 50-year-old Andie MacDowell on its cover and includes profiles on Sean Penn, Hillary Clinton and Melita Toscan du Plantier, director of the Marrakech International Film Festival. Counting 205 pages, including 50 ad pages, topics covered include fashion, culture and lifestyle. Advertisers in the first issue include Prada, Yves Saint Laurent and Lanc?me, as well as lifestyle brands such as Nepresso and Mercedes-Benz. The average page costs 15,000 euros, or $24,000. According to a spokeswoman, investment in the magazine, which has a planned print run of 100,000 copies, totals 10 million euros, or around $15.8 million. The cover price is 3.90 euros, or around $6, reduced to 2 euros, or approximately $3, for the first issue.
4. Folio
Meredith Corporation has become the latest magazine publisher to reduce its workforce, today cutting 60 jobs and opting not to fill 60 open positions. Twenty of the layoffs come from its magazine business, a Meredith spokesperson tells FOLIO. The layoffs are “very selective,” according to the spokesperson, and include staffers in editorial, sales, production, digital imaging and other areas. About a third of the eliminated positions are from Meredith’s book division while the other third are from its broadcasting division. The 60 open positions being eliminated are company-wide, the spokesperson says. MORE ONLINE
5. New York Post
A new battle for New York is underway, as the well-financed Modern Luxury operation invades the city with a new magazine, to be called Manhattan. Richard Martin, who is currently the editor of Modern Luxury's recently launched Miami magazine, will be heading to New York to be the editor of Manhattan. MORE ONLINE
6. Fishbowl
FishbowlNY has learned that Fortune assistant managing editor Cait Murphy and staff writer Matthew Boyle have been let go. PARAGRAPH 2 Murphy has been at the magazine since 1998. Before that, she served as social policy correspondent and environment and energy corespondent at The Economist and editorial page editor at the Asian Wall Street Journal. Boyle was an editor for PRWeek before joining Fortune in 2000.
Whisper Jobs JOBS ... that Seattle Homes & Lifestyles and SeattleHomesMag.com is looking for an Assistant Editor: full-time staff position, salary $27K, starting July 2008. Responsibilities & Qualifications: Assist Editor in all aspects of editing the print and Web magazine: writing and editing articles, managing and processing documentation, tracking production flow and mentoring editorial interns. Candidates should have solid editorial experience and an education in journalism, writing or liberal arts. Please send a cover letter detailing why you are the right person for this job, your resume and three published writing samples to Giselle Smith at gsmith@seattlehomesmag.com; no phone calls. Deadline is June 20, 2008, unless position is filled sooner. Hint: Good editors are good readers. Incomplete applications will not be considered. (OK to mention Ed) For even more jobs, go to http://www.ed2010.com/jobs/whisperjobs or click here. INTERNSHIPS ... New York and Glamour magazine columnists Em & Lo are looking for an intern to help out with DailyBedpost.com story research. Duties include researching online and offline for ideas for blog posts and also contributing occasional blog posts. Other occasional duties may include helping out with magazine article research, helping us find candidates to interview for stories (both experts and non-experts), and transcribing interviews. The internship is unpaid but very flexible: It's completely virtual (email, mail, & phone) and we're open to candidates who can work as little as 3 hours a week... or as many as 15 hours a week. See EMandLO.com for more about us. Send a resume, a one-page writing sample (an excerpt or link is fine), and a cover letter to emlo@emandlo.com. Internship starts immediately. (OK to mention Ed) For even more internships, go to http://www.ed2010.com/ed-campus/internships/list or click here.
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