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Ed is so happy to be home??¦
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Hope you guys had a great-ole Presidents??™ Day weekend too!

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1. NY Post
Ear Injury??™s Talk of the Town
2/21/05
http://nypost.com/seven/02212005/gossip/pagesix.htm

TALK magazine is long gone, with little but a $50 million hole in Harvey Weinstein's pocket to commemorate it. But a former staffer is ensuring it lives on in infamy with a long-simmering $25 million lawsuit that is finally headed for trial.

The contractors subsequently sued Talk Media and, by extension, Miramax and parent company Disney, because they had indemnified them after the magazine insisted on moving in before work was done.

Journalist-publisher James Atlas describes getting sacked at age 50 in a New York magazine excerpt of his forthcoming book, My Life in the Middle Ages. The piece boils over with specificity about Atlas' life??”he writes of sobbing in front of his children at a showing of the treacly Mr. Holland's Opus; he notes that he once worked at the New York Times; he names his son, Will; he names the scotch he drinks at a New York Rangers game (Dewar's); he names the soda his editor drinks as he dumps him (Diet Coke); he names Saul Bellow's sad-sack best friend (Isaac Rosenfeld).

But he never names the magazine editor who sacked him or the magazine itself, an odd oversight seeing as the episode takes up 1,200 words of his 3,900-word piece.

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Six decades ago, not long after being hired by Harold Ross as a copy editor at The New Yorker, a shy young woman, an Oberlin graduate, set to work on a manuscript by James Thurber and soon came across the word ???raunchy.??? She had never heard of the word and thought it was a mistake. ???Raunchy??? became ???paunchy.??? Thurber??™s displeasure was such that the young woman barely escaped firing. Later, according to his biographer Harrison Kinney, Thurber wrote that ???facetiously??? was the only word in English that had all six vowels in order. What about ???abstemiously???? the copy editor replied. Thurber, who was not easily impressed, was finally compelled to ask, ???Who is Eleanor Gould????

Miss Gould, as she was known to everyone at the magazine, died last week, at the age of eighty-seven. She worked here for fifty-four years, most of them as its Grammarian (a title invented for her), and she earned the affection and gratitude of generations of writers. She shaped the language of the magazine, always striving for a kind of Euclidean clarity--transparent, precise, muscular. It was an ideal that seemed to have not only syntactical but moral dimensions.

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Every now and again a magazine needs a bit of nip and tuck. For a title to remain successful, it needs to get rid of the flab, straighten out those crows' feet and possibly, go get a couple of implants, even if the surgery can be painful.

To stay afloat in the media world, you have to evolve. Consumers demand it and agency planners have a healthy appetite for something new.

But how successful are these relaunches commercially? Is it a guaranteed way to boost revenue? On a superficial level, it may be hard to say that a relaunch can be anything but positive ??“ new look, new feel, different editorial angles, all things that are hard to scoff at.

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Hunter S. Thompson, the maverick journalist and author whose savage chronicling of the underbelly of American life and politics embodied a new kind of nonfiction writing he called ???gonzo journalism,??? died yesterday in Colorado. Tricia Louthis, of the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office, said Mr. Thompson had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., yesterday afternoon. He was 67.

Mr. Thompson, a magazine and newspaper writer who also wrote almost a dozen books, was perhaps best known for his book, ???Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,??? which became a Hollywood movie in 1998. But he was better known for his hard-driving lifestyle and acerbic eye for truth which he used in the style of first-person reporting that came to be known as ???gonzo??? in the 1960's, where the usually-anonymous reporter becomes a central character in the story, a conduit of subjectivity.

???Nobody really knows what it means, but it sounds like an epithet,??? he said in an interview that, for him, journalism ???can be an effective political tool.???

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Ed hears??¦

??¦ that New Voices Magazine, a nationally distributed mag for Jewish college students, is looking for an associate editor/development director to start in June/July. The ideal applicant is a current college senior or someone who graduated from college within the past two years, who is interested in journalism, nonprofit work, and the Jewish community. Most important is a willingness to get his/her hands dirty - this is an "everything" job: besides editing and fundraising, there's writing, production, layout, design, and events. It's a two-year position, and in the second year the person take over as editor-in-chief of the magazine. It's a great way to get a foot in the door at other places - past editors write/edit for Money, Newsweek, NYTimes, the NY Sun, nerve.com, beliefnet.com, Time Out NY, YM, the New Republic, and plenty of other high-profile rags. Decent pay, great health benefits. Email director@newvoices.org IMMEDIATELY for more information - deadline is already past, but exceptions can be made. No need to mention Ed. It won't make a difference either way.

...that Hachette's For Me magazine is looking for a senior copy editor (Don't mention Ed)

... that Fawcette Technical Publications in San Mateo, CA is currently hiring for both an online editor and an executive editor for Windows Server System Magazines. A person with at least 5 years of senior editorial responsibility in technical publishing is preferred, with experience in and knowledge of print or online software development publishing a plus. A BA/BS in journalism, communications, English or a related degree is preferred. Send resumes to: hr@fawcette.com (Best not to mention Ed)

... that Inspired House magazine is looking for a managing editor with experience in shelter publications to join its staff. Duties include conceiving and developing article ideas, working with authors, setting editorial schedules and deadlines, coordinating editorial, art, and production work, as well as assisting the chief editor with other tasks. Must be an organized, responsible self-starter who can juggle multiple priorities and work well with other staff to meet deadlines. Successful candidates will have proven editing and writing skills, knowledge of interior design and architecture, good industry contacts, experience producing photo shoots, management and production skills, and at least 5 years of magazine or newspaper editorial experience. Some travel is required. Send resumes to: Ms. Dawn Ussery, Associate Human Resources Manager, or tauntonjobs@taunton.com. (Best not to mention Ed)

... that the Inspired House EDITORIAL ASSISTANT will be leaving in mid-to-late April (they know she's leaving but she hasn't given official notice yet). This is a great job for someone who wants to break into magazines. You'll be working with a small staff and in addition to the usual administrative tasks, you'll get to do a little bit of everything, including reader correspondence, editing departments, some writing and research, proofreading, and going on the occasional photo shoot. Send resumes to: Ms. Dawn Ussery, Associate Human Resources Manager, or tauntonjobs@taunton.com. If you have questions about the Inspired House editorial assistant's job, you can email Samara Rafert at srafert@gmail.com. (OK TO MENTION ED)

... that Alloy Entertainment currently has a part time Compositor-Mechanical Artist/Typesetter position available. Must have Quark, Illustrator, and Photoshop experience. Email resumes to kgemza@alloy.com. OK to mention Ed.

... that Star magazine's beauty department is looking for interns. For college credit or experience only. Please contact Jill Mara Olich via email at jolich@starmagazine.com. (Don't mention Ed)

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