Are you and your family free this Thursday, July 26? Are you attractive? Can you read an ad that's only barely written in English? Then you may be able to participate in a Real Simple photo shoot! You'll even get $200!
• Today in articles we feel like we keep reading: Air America set to lose NYC affiliate. [Mediaweek]
• While storm clouds perpetually hang over the rest of Time Inc., Real Simple lives it up in Laguna Beach. Where, apparently, the weather was lovely. [WWD]
• Shape EIC to take over Fitness. But first — damned…
• Page Six traffics in buzz, apparently. [NYT]
• Uncle Bob Schieffer might stick around to do end-of-show commentaries on Couric-led CBS Evening News. And also to show off his legs, of course. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
• Breaking: Daily News distributes sponsored copies! [NYT]
• It's hard to be a teen magazine. […
You know what we hate about magazines? There's no, like, movement — as in, the pictures don't move on the pages. They're all so still, you know? And then there's the audio problem: you can't hear a single thing the magazine is talking about, right? It's just silent! Seriously, we'd love magazines so much more if…
We may have been so fortunate as to have Wenner Media abort an upcoming celebrity title, but it seems that there's little we can do to stop the international spread of mediocre magazines. Time Inc.'s Real Simple will be launching editions in Greece, Japan, and South Africa, and Dennis Publishing crown jewel Maxim is…
