W, Condé’s upscale fashion magazine is about to get a revamp. Not so much in style and content, but more along the lines of staff. For a while now, W has been straddling Condé Nast and Farichild. The publishing side reported to Condé, while the editorial side reported to Fairchild. With Patrick McCarthy, chairman of [...]
Cost-cutting and price increases have helped Newsweek reduce its operating loss this year — and readers seem to like the editorial makeover overseen by editor John Meacham. The New York Times Nov. 15, 2009
ESPN The Magazine is the latest brand to follow the “Time-Person-of-the-Year” model and goose sales with a special issue. Their Body Issue is the biggest October issue, in terms of revenue, that ESPN has ever had. The New York Times Oct. 11, 2009
In a move that seems somewhat down-market for Vanity Fair, the magazine is joining with CBS News in inaugurating “…a monthly survey of the American consciousness, to appear both in the magazine’s pages and occasionally on television.” One of the first findings: Wal-Mart was overwhelmingly selected as the best corporate symbol of America today. The [...]
The debate about how much Photoshop is too much heats up once more. The New York Times May 27, 2009
A piece about finding a job during a recession in Fortune was light on words, but featured “a soundtrack, a troupe of improv actors…[and]…a mix of text, photo-illustrations, interactive graphics and video clips. AP via Yahoo! Tech News May 24, 2009
In an effort to catch up with major online celeb gossip sites like Yahoo’s OMG and print-based brands like People.com and Usmagazine.com, OK! magazine is teaming up with Buzz Media. Buzz Media, a social programming giant, is one of the largest collections of pop culture websites including Just Jared, Buzznet, Celebuzz, and the celebrity blogs belonging to Britney Spears and [...]
Hewlett-Packard is testing a service that will make it easier and cheaper to crank out a magazine than running photocopies at the local copy shop. The MagCloud service, now in test phase, will cost its publisher clients 20 cents a page. They, in turn, will mark up the final price to consumers. ” Samir Husni, [...]
A Hearst Magazines press release about the first-ever cover of The Oprah Magazine featuring someone in addition to Oprah, herself, is included below in its entirety.
April cover revealed on today’s Oprah Winfrey Show
OPRAH WINFREY SHARES THE COVER OF O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE WITH MICHELLE OBAMA
A FIRST AFTER 105 ISSUES, OBAMA APPEARS WITH [...]
“Greene was the magazine’s chief restaurant critic from 1968 to 2002. After that, she wrote a weekly column called ‘Insatiable Critic.’” The New York Times (Nov. 21, 2008)