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Elle Kills Owen Wilson Q+A 30 Aug 2007 | 05:17 pm
With the news out of Hollywood concerning the socking apparent suicide attempt of A-list actor and partyboy Owen Wilson, the crass touting of “Exclusive!” news about Wilson and promotion of subject ex...
Is Sports Illustrated Losing Potential Writers to ESPN? 30 Aug 2007 | 04:53 pm
Sports Illustrated recently hired a pair of senior writers with newspaper pedigrees – the New York Times’ Damon Hack and Jim Trotter of the San Diego Union Tribune – away from their respective papers....
Playboy’s Editor: Magazine Still Relevant, Doesn’t Suck, Not Porn 28 Aug 2007 | 05:13 pm
So much to get to here, not sure quite where to begin. Chris Napolitano, Playboy‘s editorial director — a Hefner lifer, if you will – via the New York Times‘ recently purchased Freakonomics blog: “Ta...
‘The Internet is Dead and Boring, So Mark Cuban is Going to Take Up Ballroom Dancing’ 28 Aug 2007 | 05:05 pm
Folio: superfriend Rex Hammock sums up the mild hysteria over outspoken Dallas Mavericks owner and Internet gagillionaire Mark Cuban’s controversial Portfolio piece on the medium through which he earn...
New York’s Downtown Move Troubles: ‘We Will Get Through This Together’ 28 Aug 2007 | 08:25 am
New York magazine made the move from its Madison Avenue offices to 75 Varick Street in downtown Manhattan last week, and it appears even a serial Ellie-winner can have the moving pains typical of a sm...
Breaking: Jellinek Out at Maxim 25 Aug 2007 | 03:25 am
In a move that had been rumored for months, Maxim editor Jimmy Jellinek, the so-called “First Lad” of magazine publishing, has been laid off. The company made the announcement late yesterday afternoon...
Jane Subscribers Getting Consolation Glamour Prize 25 Aug 2007 | 02:20 am
In terms of appeasing subscribers of a shuttered magazine, this is sooo not Jane. Via Page Six: Former Jane magazine staffers are livid that Condé Nast is sending their one-time readers copies of Gl...
Martha’s MySpace: ‘Risque! Hot!’ 24 Aug 2007 | 01:10 pm
Martha Stewart – like 50 other magazine publishers, if an admittedly unscientific count by the Magazine Publishers of America is to be believed — has a MySpace page. WWD has the details: “It’s not eno...
ASME Cover of the Year Nominees Leaked 24 Aug 2007 | 12:06 pm
The nominees, much less winners, won’t be announced for a couple months, but a tipster tells us the American Society of Magazine Editors have a less-than-secure FTP site for submissions to their annua...
Bet on It: Wicks to Sell Daily Racing Form for $200M 24 Aug 2007 | 10:32 am
The Daily Racing Form—“America’s Turf Authority Since 1894” that was once sold by News Corp. to Primedia for $180 million, only to be sold by Primedia for $40 million seven years later—has been sold b...
