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The NYC Ed EA SquareTable is TONIGHT
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Ed's looking forward to seeing all of you who received confirmations for tonight's event. Only show up if you've received a confirmation, yo. Ed's really sorry, but at this time, there are no more spots and there's a waiting list. But there's always next time!

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News
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1. Media Week
Time Inc. Cuts 66 More Staffers; Packages to be Offered to Other Employees
By Stephanie D. Smith
1/30/06
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001920629

A total of 66 Time Inc. staffers were laid off today, and packages to others are also expected to be offered, a spokesperson for the company confirmed. Time magazine will lose 10 editorial employees, and Money and Sports Illustrated also are among the titles affected by the layoffs.

Broken down, 40 business-side employees and 26 non-union protected editorial staffers were let go across multiple titles.

The packages will be offered to a number of union-protected editorial staffers, who will have until Feb. 13 to make a decision.

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VOGUE HOME: Now that Mama Vogue, Teen Vogue and Men's Vogue are available in the U.S., all the Vogue family needs is a place to call home. And that's exactly what it'll get if Vogue Living materializes. The big question seems to be not whether a special outsert or newsstand issue will happen, but whether it will arrive this year or next.

Vogue publisher Tom Florio told WWD in October that a shelter spin-off was "something we'd like to do this year," meaning calendar year 2006. Last week, the official word from a Vogue spokeswoman was, "It's still an active topic for discussion."

AWARD SEASON: Magazine publishers tend to be ubercompetitive types, so the 30-plus of them gathered in Miami for Conde Nast's annual publishers' meeting are no doubt anxiously awaiting tonight's announcement of this year's "Publisher of the Year" winner, especially since there's a generous prize at stake. (Past winners have received lavish vacations for themselves and their families.)

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Carl Icahn, the activist investor battling for control of Time Warner, on Monday named Frank Biondi, a former chief executive of Viacom, as an alternative chief executive candidate for the media giant.

Mr Biondi ??“ who was pushed out of Viacom in 1996 by Sumner Redstone, the group??™s chief and controlling shareholder ??“ will lead Mr Icahn??™s efforts to win investor backing for a proposal to restructure Time Warner to boost its share price.

Mr Biondi, who has also headed Universal studios and Time Warner??™s HBO group, will seek investor backing to replace the well-regarded Dick Parsons as Time Warner chairman and chief executive at a shareholder meeting in May.

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As the Mary Berner era comes to a close, everybody at Cond?© Nast is wondering how trickle-down economics might or might not apply to employee perks.

Berner, you??™ll recall, announced her intention a few weeks ago to clear out of glossy-magazine giant Cond?© Nast by the 31st. She was the charismatic, brilliantly effective president-CEO of Fairchild, publisher of titles such as Women??™s Wear Daily, W, Jane, Cookie and Details. Cond?© Nast??™s parent, Advance Magazine Group, bought Fairchild in the '90s, but just recently formally absorbed it, which meant Berner no longer got to run her own shop -- thus her resignation.

Berner famously ran a tight ship. While peers at Cond?© got to glide around Manhattan in pricey Town Cars to go to fancy lunches, Fairchild employees enjoyed no such perks. The cool thing is that Berner herself submitted to the culture of cost-control, often taking cabs, subways and -- gasp! -- sometimes even walking to nearby outside meetings.

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Vive la France! Designers such as Louis Vuitton may not be "Lafayette" to fashion and beauty-magazine publishers, but Vuitton and his French and Italian counterparts are as welcome to the women's-fashion carriers as the Marquis was to George Washington in 1777.

Without Europe, this winter would have produced a Valley Forge-like "freeze" on the business, because American fashion--which has provided the ad muscle in recent years--is either flat or down in most magazines.

And retail is off to a slow start, with several inserts that ran in March 2005 not continued. Chart below of 11 fashion magazines plus the New York magazine/ New York Times magazine "Spring Previews" reveals a down March and a fractionally up first quarter.

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So we spent all day yesterday waiting for New York magazine??™s new website. Something was coming, clearly, something good. Mediaweek wrote about the big redesign. New York web geeks were clearly so focused on it they couldn??™t post the new issue to the site. The mag??™s communications chief promised it was coming in the afternoon. And, yet, nothing.

???We want this to become a site that people visit daily and maybe even hourly,??? EIC Adam Moss told Mediaweek. ???One mission [of the relaunch] is to be a Web site that has its own life. It has a relationship with the magazine but is not identical.???

That??™s major, heady stuff Moss is describing. And when we woke up this morning and there was still no site ??” and none of this week??™s content on the old site ??” we realized that this relaunch was so immense, so world-shaking that it simply couldn??™t be built overnight.

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