Time Inc. has begun selling ads on the cover of its magazines, "two weeks before Time Inc. begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange as a public company." The technical term for this is "desperation."
We hear that Ladies Home Journal is folding, or at least vastly reducing its publication schedule. A tipster tells us the New York office was just informed this morning, and that layoffs are involved. Anyone who knows more, please comment below.
Self magazine is now someone else's magazine—Condé Nast is replacing long-time editor Lucy Danziger with current Cosmopolitan executive editor Joyce Chang. Also reportedly out is Self publisher and vice president Laura McEwen.
California Is Finally Getting a Real Weekly Magazine
A new weekly magazine called California Sunday was announced this morning, and reaction was immediate and joyous. The very creative business idea is to put the print mag inside the state's biggest Sunday papers, while having all the websites and apps that are exciting to new-media people but can't charge Sunday paper…
The new VP/ publisher of Sports Illustrated is Brendan Ripp—who happens to be the son of Joe Ripp, who is the CEO of Time Inc., the company that owns Sports Illustrated. Huh. Seems strange to see this sort of nepotism in the media world.
New York Magazine Begins to Give Up on Print
New York magazine is considered one of the most prestigious magazines in America. New York magazine is no longer able to publish a weekly print edition. We were not joking when we told you thousands of times that print is dead.
Governor's Weight Alluded to Noisily
Time magazine notes on its new cover that New Jersey governor Chris Christie is fat. [Time]
The American Magazine Conference in New York was briefly evacuated yesterday after a noxious smell filled the conference room. Turns out it was just a copy of National Review.
Condé Nast Killed the Internship
You could say Condé Nast invented the Millenial-centric media internship: menial, subservient, under- or unpaid, yet intoxicatingly close to the reigning powers of New York City’s culture industry. Now they’re killing it off.
Science Journalism World Explodes With Sexual Harassment Allegations
Scientific American, not normally thought of as a hotbed of media scandal, is currently embroiled in a wave of sexual harassment allegations against a top editor. The science journalism world is in a low-grade uproar.
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has finally renewed his contract, so not to worry, VF readers: you won't have to face any living people on the cover for at least three more years.
Ha Ha, Did the Tea Party Boycott Ebony Magazine? (No.)
Early Wednesday afternoon, the Twitter account of Ebony magazine raised an alarm about a distressing new campaign targeting the magazine:
The Not-So-Final Embarrassment of Tina Brown
The dessicated, online-only husk of what was once a big magazine called Newsweek has finally been sold off (despite our explicit instructions not to buy it). For editor Tina Brown, it marks the end of a humiliating career defeat. Newsweek's downfall exposed all of Tina Brown's weaknesses, and won't hurt her a bit.
The Nation publishes a call for racial and economic diversity in journalism; The Nation's interns respond with a letter to the editor asking for better pay. Zing. Well done, interns. (Step three is going to work for a company that makes more money than The Nation.)
Vanity Fair Is as Relevant as Ever
We'll give you one guess who's on the new Vanity Fair cover. ONE GUESS. [Ghost Monthly.]
John McPhee Blazing New Frontiers in the Field of Boring Story Premises
Today in "The New Yorker Will Publish Anything John McPhee Writes, No Matter How Tedious," please allow us to present, per The New Yorker's own press release: "John McPhee writes about 'The Orange Trapper,' a device he uses to compulsively retrieve stray golf balls." Interesting.
After three years on the job, Rolling Stone publisher Matt Mastrangelo has been fired by his boss, Jann Wenner. No word yet on whether he'll be replaced by one of Wenner's children.
Time magazine's website is reportedly being redesigned in the image of The Daily Beast. Hey, it worked great for Newsweek.
Rolling Stone boss Jann Wenner says he picked his 22 year-old son Gus to run the magazine's website because he "impressed me more than anyone."
