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People's Empty Web Boast
People boasts 4m visitors to the Time Inc. magazine's web site on the day photos of Jennifer Lopez' newborn twins went up. So, is that supposed to be impressive? Well, it is more than New York magazine drew for its cunningly classy recreation of Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot, with the troubled actress played by a modern-day trainwreck, Lindsay Lohan. Adam Moss' stunt drew 1.3m US visitors per day at the peak of public interest, according to Quantcast. However, People simply directed web visitors to the print magazine, while New York milked the interest for all it was worth, generating nearly 20 pageviews per visitor. And, while People paid a record $6m to Jennifer Lopez for rights to the actress' babies, New York gave Lohan only a boost to her faltering credibility, which cost nothing, except Moss' reputation for high-mindedness. On the web, at least, People got the poorer deal; and that makes their chest-thumping all the more silly. (Data on New York magazine's traffic comes from Quantcast.)
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Self-Hating 'Time' Offers Its Worst Covers For Your Mocking
Time Magazine is so with it. Their cover story this week is about Hillary Clinton. She's really important these days. They also know that in this post self-esteem era, nothing is more appealing that being self-hating. So for a special online feature (the internet is huge!) Time rounds up its all time worst covers. Of course, their choice of covers is a little safe. Those Asian whiz kids didn't make the list, and, for our money, they were totally robbed. Please send in any offensive Time covers that go beyond the "ha-ha, were so silly back then" ones they gave. In the meantime, our round up of their round up, with open captions. More »
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Demi Moore Loves Her Vagina! 'Vanity Fair' And 'V' Love It Too!
Oh Demi Moore, with your naughty magazine cover splashes. What does the gestating kid (that would be Scout LaRue) pictured at left in your iconic 1991 Vanity Fair portrait think about the magazine's February cover of you? How about your racy appearance on the cover of the subtly-titled V? And she thought her exit from the womb sixteen years ago would be the last time she had to take an up-close-and-personal look at her mom's vadge.
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Colbert, Ladies on Buildings, Big Fleshy Orbs Rule ASME Cover Contest
The American Society of Magazine Editors revealed the finalists of their second annual Best Cover Contest today. We find out the winners next week! Oh boy! 9/11 covers from The New Yorker and New York, the day Time decided to just run a huge picture of an elephant's ass (it's a metaphor!), and a cover from Skiing with the headline "secret powder" that is apparently actually about skiing and not coke are just some of the highlights of this year gone by. Overall, as this sampling of the nominees suggests, you had a winner on your hands if you featured the inescapable Stephen Colbert, a lady on a roof somewhere, or a disembodied sphere of lady-part on the right half. Also we're glad to see that New York's coverline question "What If 9/11 Never Happened?" just still refuses to resonate.
2007 Best Cover Contest [ASME]
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'Time Out' Covers the War
Israeli journalist Lisa Goldman reproduces an interesting story regarding the friendship recently established between the respective editors of Time Out Beirut and Time Out Tel Aviv. Though TOB has ceased publication for obvious reasons, TOTA ran a July 20 cover (shortly after the more overt hostilities commenced) that's a variation-homage on the classic "View of New York from Ninth Avenue" cover from the New Yorker. Of course, the view across the river on the TOTA cover is a bit less sanguine than that which inspired it. Full image after the jump. (Bonus: Compare, contrast, and discuss Time Out New York's cover, "The War for Brooklyn.") More »
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This Just In: Nothing Has Changed in 'Shock' Photo Feud
So remember how Hachette Filipacchi published the first issue of Shock magazine with that cover photo of the U.S. soldier in Iraq holding a bloodied baby? And remember how the guy who shot the photo, Michael Yon, flipped out, arguing that he never sold the rights to the image? And remember how it turned out that Hachette thought it had done the right thing and purchased rights from a photo agency, but that the agency never really had the rights to sell in the first place? And remember how all parties tried to reach a settlement, and thought they did, but then Yon backed out at the last minute? And you know how that's where things have been stuck for a few weeks now? Yeah? Well, that's where it still stands. Hachette put out a press release last night just to make sure you know that. More »
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Newsweek's cover this week is its first-ever "Giving Back Awards," a sort of honor of 15 people who "devote themselves to helping others." Naturally at least one or two members of such a list must have Katrina connections. One Katrina-connected award winner, as you might expect, was a certain CNN anchor who channeled the publics' anger at government officials and was ultimately transformed by the experience. By which we mean Soledad O'Brien, of course.
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'Newsweek' Loves Its Heroes, Hates Anderson Cooper
Newsweek's cover this week is its first-ever "Giving Back Awards," a sort of honor of 15 people who "devote themselves to helping others." Naturally at least one or two members of such a list must have Katrina connections. One Katrina-connected award winner, as you might expect, was a certain CNN anchor who channeled the publics' anger at government officials and was ultimately transformed by the experience. By which we mean Soledad O'Brien, of course.
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This Week's 'New York': Thick and Crotchy
The new New York, weighing in at 168 pages, arrived this week with an almost Vanity Fair-like heft. We were planning to congratulate the mag on this achievement — actually, we were waiting for the inevitable press release touting the accomplishment — but then we actually gave the cover a look. And we're not sure we'll ever be able to quite get past the Platon-shooting-Clinton-for-Esquire shot of Woody Allen's crotch we'll have to spend the next two weeks looking at. (It's a double issue.) Yuck. More »
The Rick Stengel Era Begins at 'Time'...
Time, today, and Newsweek, March 6. Click to enlarge. ...and Newsweek's Mark Whitaker couldn't be happier.
Time, today, and Newsweek, March 6. Click to enlarge. ...and Newsweek's Mark Whitaker couldn't be happier.
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Get Yer New 'Out,' Much Like the Old 'Out'
Our boss as just sent us the cover image for the July 2006 Out, the first from new editor Aaron Hicklin, the BlackBook vet. We can't say we find it particularly interesting or exciting, but bossman is buds with Hicklin and so we figured we might as well throw him a bone. And, actually, we ought to give Hicklin some credit. It's nice to see Out's cover-model tradition — a straight actor who happens to be playing a gay (in this case, bi) role — has remained intact. Excellent work. More »
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Martha Stewart Finds Homonyms Bad Things
We were pleased over the weekend to notice at our local magazine stand the first issue of Martha Stewart's new Blueprint magazine. And we would have been even more pleased if she'd been able to hire some premier copy editors for her premiere issue. More »
A Recurring Nightmare
Above left, this week's U.S. News. Above right, the Aug. 9, 2004, Newsweek. Apparently Mort Zuckerman's cutbacks now extend to cover ideas. Current Issue [USN&WR]
Above left, this week's U.S. News. Above right, the Aug. 9, 2004, Newsweek. Apparently Mort Zuckerman's cutbacks now extend to cover ideas. Current Issue [USN&WR]
'Post' Gets Up Close and Personal With Your New York Yankees
And for some reason we'd always assumed he'd have an impressive package. Must be the 'roids. New York Post
And for some reason we'd always assumed he'd have an impressive package. Must be the 'roids. New York Post
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You May Judge Jared Paul Stern's Book Only By Its Cover
FishbowlNY scores a small scoop today with Jared Paul Stern's "book cover concept," as designed by famous book designer Chip Kidd:[Click to enlarge.] More »
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'Post' on Clinton: Of Course Obnoxious, and Also Inaccurate
Well hung, eh? Hmm... More »
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George W. Bush, Always a Cartoon
Between the new issue of Rolling Stone and the new issue of The Nation, cartoonist Robert Grossman is clearly, as the Observer notes, having his best week ever. At least until Jann Wenner and Katrina vanden Heuvel notice he sold basically the same image to two mags at the same time, and vow never to work with him again. More »
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Wenner Media Discovers Synergy, Nick Lachey's Pecs
This week, Jann Wenner's Us Weekly features a cover story advertising an article in Wenner's Rolling Stone. Next week, we fully expect Us will have a cover advertising Wenner's Men's Journal. More »
