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Brandon Holley: Has A Job!

Brandon Holley, the last editor that Jane magazine would ever see (so sad! Still feel that hole in our hearts), did get a job it turns out! She has been secretly (well to us, not to her) working at Yahoo as "executive producer, Yahoo Lifestyles." This means that she is, for one of her duties, the astrology editor, which surely is a great and hilarious thing to edit. Like: "Can you make this totally-invented thing seemingly more accurate?"

Ex-Jane Editor Holley Lands at Yahoo [Mediaweek]

11:30 AM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Choire
1,537 views, 24 comments

Latest by lizzybennet: @VoxPopuli: Andrea Botocelli (or whoever that opera guy is) more »

goodbye to all pratt

Rumor: 'Jane' Magazine Folds

Sad, if true, rumor: We're hearing that Jane magazine, which provided us so much joy with its coverage of boobs, has apparently folded. A call to Editor in Chief Brandon Holley resulted in our being informed that she was "in a meeting." Wonder what that might be about. UPDATE: The ad people just got back from a short meeting at which they were told the news. And as for the shuttering of the mag, Radar hears the same. UPDATE update: A friend hears from an employee: "It's done, everyone is packing up and has to be out today."

11:43 AM on Mon Jul 9 2007
By abalk
25,714 views, 50 comments

Latest by n/a: So...what was said to piss the publishers off? more »

blogs as good as newspapers

Brandon Holley's "Jane" Transformation Complete!

For the record, it was current Jane editor Brandon Holley who got hitched over the weekend in Virginia (update: actually, now we hear it was over last weekend) to musician John Deley, not Original Jane, AKA Jane Pratt, as "the gossip's gossip sheet" Jossip originally reported. More »

3:20 PM on Tue May 22 2007
By Emily Gould
3,063 views, 4 comments

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Do We Owe 'Jane' A Boob Shoot Apology?

We were so sad when we read Brandon Holley's editor's letter in the famous boob-containing new issue of Jane. (They took pictures of ladies' boobs!) "Unfortunately, someone on the list (yes, we know who you are) decided to circulate the names of these women — which we intended to keep anonymous — to a Web site," Brandon wrote. We're just "a Web site!" Sad already. Also, we thought it was sort of shady (but admirably deft!) the way Brandon glossed over the whole "we accidentally sent out a list of everyone's contact info, complete with phone numbers, to all boob shoot participants" aspect of events. Anyway, she continued: "The blogger bragged about having the list and threatened to print it once our issue was out. The idea was to embarrass our volunteers and make them worry about being scrutinized." Bragged! Threatened! We so did not! More »

3:32 PM on Tue Apr 24 2007
By Emily Gould
20,788 views, 34 comments

Latest by VoxPopuli: @Sally Tomato: http://www.epartyunlimited.com/succulent-fruity-boobs.html... I got curious and had to see what the hell it was about. BTW, they have a male version too, but seems stubby by scale. But they're european, so maybe it seems more impressive in centimeters (or millimeters, more »

joel stein

Joel Stein: He's So Jane

We're hearing that LA Times columnist, VH1 talking head, and general shanda-for-the-Jews Joel Stein will be doing a little bit of freelancing for Jane magazine. The story makes sense, in that Stein and Jane ed Brandon Holley once toiled together in the trenches of Time Out. Loathe though we are to see Stein's cut-rate Dave Barryisms in yet another publication, we can see one possible upside. Perhaps Brandon will mate him with the mag's professional virgin Sarah DiMuro, which would keep at least that corner of the gene pool quarantined. More »

12:12 PM on Wed Feb 14 2007
By abalk2
437 views, 11 comments

Latest by Smirk: Ellagood, Yeah, I agree. Oh well, I guess my Gaydar can't be right all the time. more »

mediabistro

Genius Lessons: Thirty Bucks

At a gathering for 49 Nobel Prize winners in 1962, President Kennedy remarked that "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." All well and good, but this January 29th will see the greatest assemblage of magazine genius ever gathered together in the same room - with the possible exception of when Art Cooper had that fatal meal with Dave Zinczenko. That's right, it's MediaBistro's "Editors on Truth Serum — The New Rules of Success Now," a panel discussion at Chinatown Brasserie, starring such luminaries as Tom Foster (Men's Journal), Brandon Holley (Jane), Stacy Morrison (Redbook), Susie Schulz (CosmoGirl!), Richard Story (Departures), and Jake "Shake 'n Bake" Weisberg (Slate). As 'bistro Boa-in-Chief Laurel Touby puts it, More »

3:00 PM on Thu Jan 11 2007
By abalk2
135 views, 2 comments

Latest by jasper: I received this e-mail. Twice. It was for just such occasions that the Delete key was invented. Total obv. more »

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Media Bubble: Feuds Resolved, Reignited

  • Evil, Inc.'s Rupert Murdoch and Liberty Media's John C. Malone kiss and make up. [NYT]
  • NYT's Sulzberger tells investors to lick his left one. [NYP]
  • Ugly rumble at Jane editor Brandon Holley's fortieth birthday party. Happy Birthday, Brandon! [WWD]
  • Mickey Kaus takes time out from mocking Andrew Sullivan and Markos "Kos" Moulitsas to resume his long-running attack on CNN's Jonathan Klein. [Kausfiles, second item]
  • Newspapers tell readers what they want to hear. Which, in the Times case, is that women have small dogs. [NYT]
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    10:10 AM on Thu Dec 7 2006
    By abalk2
    141 views, 5 comments

    Latest by thomas: What kind of conversations does Rupert Murdoch have with the guy who dyes his hair? more »

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    Conde Christmas: Who Sat Next To Si?

    It's that time of year again: Bleary-eyed Conde Nast editors turn out for the annual Christmas luncheon, and, middle-school style, determine their status by their closeness to (or distance from) Chairman Si. Conde Kremlinologist Keith Kelly gives you the scoop, but here are a couple of highlights: More »

    10:00 AM on Thu Nov 30 2006
    By abalk2
    307 views, 3 comments

    politics

    Remainders: Bedtime for Baby Lefty

    • If you want to win in the end, you've got to indoctrinate them when they're young. [LittleDemocrats]
    • Whitney Houston's sober, and you've got Courtney Love to thank for it. Now just imagine how that all came about. [Idolator]
    • Why in the name of God is Men's Vogue hosting a slideshow of Francesco Vezzoli's Caligula? This really doesn't help their case. [Men's Vogue]
    • The New Yorker pacifies toddlers and puts to sleep people of all ages. [Flickr]
    • Giorgio Armani designs tomorrow's issue of the Independent, affectionately called the Red Issue. Just like his skin. [Independent]
    • Only hipsters would upload a video with puppets singing about hipsters. [Animal]
    • Murray's Hill: an imagined sitcom with music by the Fray, sponsored by Sparks. [Leveraged Sellout]
    • Kanye West is many things to many people. Many Gay things. [One D at a Time]
    • Jane editor Brandon Holley abandons punk roots, gets engaged. Mazel tov, ya sellout! [FishbowlNY]
    • Sad news for fans of excellent British automotive television: Top Gear's Richard Hammond has been in a car accident. At 280 MPH. [Jalopnik]

    7:05 PM on Wed Sep 20 2006
    By Jessica
    72 views, 9 comments

    Latest by MSC: I actually bought that book last year for my sister so she could read it to her kids. She made the mistake of marrying a Republican, so the family is doing everything it can to win the battle for the more »

    brandon holley

    She's So Brandon!

    As we suspected, Jane magazine is in fact having a competition to get a 29-year-old virgin laid. We could talk about how desperate and distasteful the whole thing is, but we're more upset that now we've got to cancel Gawker's Fuck a Fat Guy contest lest we be accused of appropriating the concept. No, what's more interesting to us is Sarah's appearance. She looks... familiar. Who is it that she reminds us of? Oh, right. More »

    1:20 PM on Tue Aug 22 2006
    By abalk2
    506 views, 18 comments

    brangelina

    Remainders: Justice for Brangelina

    • Brangelina's stolen baby shower photos are such a national treasure, the freaking FBI will raid your home to get them back. Tax dollars at work, people. [TMZ]
    • Mo Rocca is on Star's side: by blindsiding Barbara Walters and quitting ahead of schedule, she spared us all the two-hour farewell episode from hell. [Fanatical Apathy]
    • The Devil's assistant wears Prada, too. And she's shitty at keeping your rolodex up-to-date. [NYP]
    • Meet Sarah Stillman, the Nation's Student Writing Contest winner. She will only win $1000, however, because that's what she gets for leaning left. [The Nation]
    • The sky over Gristedes bawls "like a fucking constipated baby." Shouldn't this sort of hate be reserved for Duane Reade? [The Call Me Concha]
    • There's already a Generation Z, and they're fashion bloggers. [WWD]
    • Jane EIC Brandon Holley feeds readers pizza, but not so much that they won't fit into pretty new clothes. [Jossip]
    • Natalie Portman and Eddie Izzard are, oddly enough, neck-and-neck for the lead in Cabaret. Such a toss-up, right? [Suicide Girls]

    7:10 PM on Thu Jun 29 2006
    By Jessica
    167 views, 1 comment

    Latest by pseudopsych: What is next Generation AA? Where do we go from here? more »

    jane

    'Jane,' Your Offline Blogosphere

    Because we lurve Ashlee Simpson, we were recently flipping through the April issue of Jane (we know, we're behind on the girly mags), and we noticed a couple of things. First of all, it seems safe to say that after a few months under editor-in-chief Brandon Holley, Jane is pretty damn good. The look is fun, the edit is solid — just a good hipster-crafty-feminist revival. More »

    1:42 PM on Mon Mar 27 2006
    By Jessica
    161 views, 2 comments

    people magazine

    Media Bubble: 'People' Has Always Cared Deeply About the Plight of the Haitian People

    • How'd People land the preggers-Angelina scoop? By donating something like $400K to one of the actress's favorite charities. "It is not a pay for access deal," says the mag's new chief. No, not at all. [NYP]
    • Brandon Holley's Jane is kicking ass on the newsstand, it turns out. [WWD (second item)]
    • Regret The Error's Craig Silverman is nitpicking because he cares. Yeah, us too. [Media Orchard]
    • Thought Radar was short-lived? Behold Game Industry Report, which lasted for one day. [Folio:]
    • It's not just Abramoff: Turns out the mag biz pay several firms about $500K each year to lobby lawmakers. [Folio:]
    • With three jobs instead of his one old one, Ted Koppel really promises he'll be working less now. [WP]
    • And Nightline vet Dave Marash signs on as Washington anchor for soon-to-launch Al Jazeera International, presumably only after Koppel decided three "retirement" gigs were enough. [Media Mob/NYO]

    2:55 PM on Fri Jan 13 2006
    By Jesse
    55 views, Comment

    brandon holley

    Brandon Holley Asks 'Jane' Readers to Move On

    After all the stink we made about uber-editor Jane Pratt leaving Jane and being replaced by Brandon Holley, we still didn't really care enough to follow up and see how the "new" Jane would look (adult ADD, man). So we picked up the January issue the other day, and maybe it's too soon to tell, but we're not detecting any major differences, other than wee aesthetic ones, under Holley's reign. We did, however, notice an interesting little sidebar on the letters page, which was for the November issue (and Pratt's last): More »

    7:31 AM on Fri Nov 18 2005
    By Jessica
    315 views, Comment

    jane

    Brandon Holley Revives Neon Palette

    So, uh, what the hell is going on over at Jane? Okay, what with Hurricane Zed and DeLay being indicted and Britney's new baby, we're sure the state of affairs at the girly mag is hardly at the top of your mind. But maybe it should be! After all, Keith "Mad Dog" Kelly confirmed our earlier report that since Jane Pratt stepped down from the helm at her semi-glossy brainchild, the Fairchild title has been melting off its staff like the fat on Star Jones. Speaking from Milan, new Jane EIC Brandon Holley comments that the recent departures (including managing editor Debbie McHugh) are normal for any regime change, and notes that new editors have already signed on. More »

    3:51 PM on Wed Sep 28 2005
    By Jessica
    319 views, Comment

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    Gossip Roundup: Mary-Kate Will Kick Your Ass

    • This might be the most inconsequential gossip item ever, but still one of our favorites. After hearing that model May Anderson supposedly hit on her ex, David Katzenberg, Marlboro woman Mary-Kate Olsen was on a street corner, screaming into her cellphone, "I'll kill that fucking slut!" Awesome: What we wouldn't pay to see MK get violent. It'd be like watching a rabid squirrel decimate an acorn. [Page Six]
    • As part of the Scientology Disaster Relief Action Special Thetan Squad, actor John Travolta gave massages to hurricane victims. Strapping, young, masculine hurricane victims, no doubt. [R&M (2nd item)]
    • Actress and Coldplay groupie Gwyneth Paltrow continues to ride her high horse all over the damn place, claiming that she keeps a log of paparazzi incidents because of the danger posed to her fruity daughter. [Page Six]
    • Former Jane editor Jane Pratt tells The Daily that the "She's So Jane" campaign to for new EIC Brandon Holley definitely wasn't her idea. No shit. [Lowdown (2nd to last)]
    • Roger Friedman finally gets to write Fabian Basabe's name in his column, dies of pervy happiness. [Fox411 (bottom)]

    12:30 PM on Fri Sep 9 2005
    By Jessica
    359 views

    jane

    Brandon Holley Gives 'Jane' Staff a Make-Under

    Newly-crowned Jane EIC Brandon Holley has officially settled into her throne, and with her arrival comes the inevitable changes to the mag's starting lineup. Today's WWD reports that Kusum Lynn will be taking over for Sciascia Gambaccini as Jane's new fashion director; Lynn previously held the same position at Nylon. For her consolation prize, Gambaccini will remain at Jane as a contributor. More »

    11:42 AM on Tue Aug 30 2005
    By Jessica
    259 views

    ellegirl

    'ELLEgirl' Lets Its Staffers Grow Up

    Now that former queen bee Brandon Holley has has left the building in favor of the misnomered throne at Jane magazine, new EIC Christina Kelly and the cutie pies at ELLEgirl are giving their magazine a little face lift: More »

    9:05 AM on Mon Aug 22 2005
    By Jessica
    246 views

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