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magazine industry stories: 23 news summaries

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Shuttering Mags, Conde Nast Turns to ... Online Dating?

Publishing giant makes 'very bizarre' venture into new business

Oct 13, 09 8:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - OK, so Gourmet wasn't working out, seven staffers at Glamour were just given the boot, and the remaining mags in Conde Nast's stable are slashing up to 25% of their budgets. But obviously the time is ripe for Conde Nast to launch…an online dating site, the More »

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online dating • Conde Nast • Glamour magazine • magazine industry • Gourmet • GQ magazine • magazines

 Condé Nast Axing Gourmet, 
 3 Other Titles 

Magazine publisher could lose $200 million this year, industry sources say

Oct 5, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Condé Nast will shut down iconic foodie magazine Gourmet as well as newer title Cookie and Brides offshoots Modern Bride and Elegant Bride, CEO Charles Townsend announced today. Hundreds of jobs will be lost in the company’s biggest single day of closings, the More »

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magazine • recession • Conde Nast • magazine industry • magazine publishing • Gourmet

(Newser) - CBS and Pepsi have teamed up for an experiment in advertising that seems out of the Harry Potter films: talking video advertisements in the pages of Entertainment Weekly. Selected magazine subscribers in New York and LA  will receive copies embedded with wafer-thin screens the width of a mobile phone display,... More »

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CBS • advertising • Pepsi • magazine industry • mobile video • Entertainment Weekly • Jay-ZTV

 Fall Fashion Mags 
 Shed a Few Pounds 

Advertisers slowly turn to the Internet

Aug 17, 09 10:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fashion magazines’ typically beefy September issues are nearly a third skinnier this year as advertisers drift away from print, the Wall Street Journal reports. Vogue, for example, boasted 840 pages in September 2007; this year, it’s just 429 pages, a 36% drop from last year. Advertisers are trying... More »

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fashion • Louis Vuitton • online advertising • marketing • magazine • Vogue • print advertising • advertisers • Diane Von Furstenberg • magazine industry • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - With ad dollars drying up, some magazines are offering rock-bottom subscription prices to boost circulation and build their brands. Advertising Age looks at the cheapest bets:
  • Parents: The least expensive subscription found, at 33¢ an issue.
  • TV Guide: A steal at 36¢ an issue.
  • Yachting: Just because
... More »

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Seventeen magazine • subscription • print advertising • magazine industry • publishing industry • Paula Deen • New York magazine • TV Guide • Wine Spectator • Cooking With Paula Deen • FLEX • Cigar Aficionado • Garden & Gun • Science Illustrated • Yachting magazine • Parents magazine

 Reader's Digest 
 Shifts to the Right 

Struggling magazine aims for new niche market

Jun 19, 09 8:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Reader's Digest is no longer going after Middle America, reports the New York Times. Instead, the slimmed-down magazine will be "aiming a little more to the right," hoping to carve out a niche among conservatives, writes Stephanie Clifford. “It’s traditional, conservative values: I love my family,... More »

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media • conservative • American media • right-wing media • magazine industry • Reader's Digest • conservative media

 Airbrush's Bristles Get 
 Prickly for Fashion Mags 

Readers demand more realistic photos

May 28, 09 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - After years of digital enhancements that make today’s celebrities look more alien than human, a movement is under way to make fashion photography more realistic, the New York Times reports. Leading by example is photographer Peter Lindbergh, responsible for a series of un-retouched celebs on the cover of French... More »

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fashion • photography • magazine • celebrity • Photoshop • Glamour magazine • magazine industry • Elle • Jay-ZTV • Peter Lindbergh

 Playboy 
 on Block 
 for $300M 

Hef said to be loathe to part with firm

May 22, 09 1:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the magazine at its heart struggling against the tide of the Internet, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire is seeking a buyer for $300 million, the New York Post reports. That’s three times its current market capitalization, but sources say Hef won’t sell unless he can get the... More »

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magazine • American media • Playboy • sale • magazine industry • adult magazines • Hugh Hefner

 Condé Nast Shutters Portfolio 


Apr 27, 09 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Condé Nast’s once-ballyhooed Portfolio magazine will cease publishing immediately, staffers were told this morning. “The five main categories of advertising a publication like ours depends on are really in trouble,” Condé Nast’s group president told the New York Times. The magazine launched in April... More »

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news • Conde Nast • magazine industry • magazine publishing • financial crisis

Declining Paper Sales Sink Landmark Harvard Sq. Kiosk

Stand has sold print for 50 years above university's T stop

Nov 19, 08 4:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Harvard Square will most likely soon lose the iconic newsstand that has operated there for 50 years, the Cambridge Chronicle reports. The lease for Out of Town News expires at the end of the month, and the business has declined to renew it because of poor sales. “Nobody buys... More »

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newspaper • Massachusetts • journalism • sales • Harvard • magazine industry

 Downturn Hammers 
 Magazine Industry, Too 

Condé Nast, Time, McGraw-Hill cut jobs as ad dollars slow

Oct 31, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The economic downturn is taking its toll on magazines, forcing layoffs and budget cuts as publications face fewer advertising dollars, Women’s Wear Daily reports; the trouble is compounded as production costs soar while readers turn to the Internet. Magazine ad revenue fell 5% in the first three quarters of... More »

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New Yorker magazine • Vogue • Conde Nast • magazine industry • magazine publishing • McGraw-Hill • Portfolio

 Pitt Shoots Family for Mag Cover

Actor-turned-photog's pics in W mag

Aug 26, 08 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Brad Pitt has photographed Angelina Jolie and their six children for the November cover of W magazine, sources tell Fashion Week Daily. The photography hobbyist, who once got a Littman 45 single camera from Jolie as a birthday gift, snapped the pics last week at their French chateau. More »

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Angelina Jolie • Brad Pitt • photography • magazine industry • celebrity parents • celebrity baby

 50 Favorite Magazines 

From popular to niche, selected for being fun and instructive

Jul 16, 08 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - From US Weekly to a quarterly for Godzilla enthusiasts, the Chicago Tribune's list of 50 favorite magazines both entertain and take readers to new places. The list includes:
  • NME: A rock and roll crystal ball, this UK music mag forecasts tomorrow’s megastars
  • Seed: Science never
... More »

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media • Vanity Fair • list • magazine • culture • magazine industry • Godzilla

 Kidman Kid Pics
 Not for Sale... Maybe 

Actress says she'd never, but gossip mag says it turned down her demand for $3M

Jul 16, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nicole Kidman says she would never sell pictures of daughter Sunday Rose—but the price may not have been high enough. An editor at a celebrity glossy tells the New York Post the Aussie Oscar-winner “wanted $3 million and we weren't going to pay that.” A Kidman rep... More »

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Nicole Kidman • baby • photograph • magazine industry • celebrity parents • Sunday Rose Kidman Urban

 Brangelina Babies
 Off to Busy Start 

Domain names, photo shoots on the agenda for hot-ticket twins

Jul 14, 08 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - At just 2 days old, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline are the world's most sought-after celebrity pair—and parents Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in managing mode. Just Jared reports the Brangelina lawyers bought out all domains with the bambinos' names—and experts tell USA Today that a photo... More »

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Angelina Jolie • Brad Pitt • twins • France • domain names • photograph • People Magazine • celebrity pregnancy • magazine industry • celebrity parents • Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt • Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt

New Service
Is Like Netflix
for Magazines

Maghound will give subscribers more choice, flexibility

Jul 5, 08 6:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Subscribing to a magazine was once a 1-year commitment, but Time Inc.’s Maghound is changing that, reports Folio. The Netflix-like service launching this fall offers “flexibility, choice, control and personalization,” says Maghound's president. The service allows customers to swap subscriptions at any time, liberating readers from... More »

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online retailers • magazine • subscribers • subscription • magazine industry • magazine publishing • Maghound • Dave Ventresca

Legendary
New York Editor Dead at 82

New Journalism pioneer Felker defined city magazine format

Jul 1, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Clay Felker, founder and editor of New York magazine, died today at 82. Felker was the pioneer of a distinctive format that has become the model for weekly magazines: long, novelistic features alongside short, spicy service pieces. "Clay was obsessed with power, and he invented a magazine in the... More »

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New York • obituary • magazine • journalism • print industry • magazine industry • print journalism • magazine publishing • Clay Felker

Michelle, Barack
Cover a Major
Success for Us

Wannabe first lady's image catapults mag sales—sans interview

Jun 24, 08 3:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Featuring Michelle Obama and hubby on the cover of Us Weekly paid off big time for the gossip mag, MSNBC reports. Early sales figures have already far outpaced recent covers sporting Jessica Simpson and Heidi Montag—the mag's usual celebrity fare. The circulation bump is a boon for the flagging... More »

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Michelle Obama • magazine • celebrity • Us Weekly • magazine industry

Opinion

 Bringing Sexy Back?
 How About Just Reality?

Beyond blemishes, glossies have retouched the truth out entirely

May 23, 08 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tired of seeing the truth airbrushed and Photoshopped entirely out of Vogue and its glossy rack-mates, Mark Morford, in the San Francisco Chronicle, ruminates on his ideal reality-based publication. His mag—Truth Hurts or My Eyes, My Eyes!—will feature "wrinkles and scars and flab and sag, stretch... More »

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media • magazine • photo editing • Photoshop • doctored photo • magazine industry • altered photos

analysis

 Has Airbrushing
 Gone Too Far? 

Digital Barbie-fication of women called unhealthy trend

May 3, 08 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Shutterbugs have long altered pics, but now critics are cringing over the effects of airbrushing on young girls. French lawmakers have even approved a law against inciting "excessive thinness." But would such a move work in America? Maybe not, "but there are a whole lot of impressionable... More »

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women • beauty • photography • eating disorder • photo editing • digital retouching • magazine industry • altered photos

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