Met Home Gets the Hatchet
Only yesterday Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. announced the closure of the magazine fondly known as Met Home to the urban, sophisticated home decor cognoscenti.
Only yesterday Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. announced the closure of the magazine fondly known as Met Home to the urban, sophisticated home decor cognoscenti.
The beauty of magazines -- particularly when the theme is food, fashion or lifestyle -- is being able to read articles at my leisure while lounging on the sofa, beach, airplane or in the bathtub.
While the media and teachers complain that kids don't read anymore, I can't get my kids to stop. Even Lucia, who is too young to read, is a voracious reader. So what's the secret?
In case you haven't read the "official stories," The Advocate, is being reduced to a pamphlet, taken off the news stands completely and packaged up with its "sister" publication, Out .
Goldman Sachs, poster child for the double-edge sword of mega-success, now finds that even an act of charity brings rebuke.
The controversy around ex-Ralph Lauren model, Filippa Hamilton's ungainly distorted advertising campaign image this week has caused quite a stir. Sad to say, It's nothing new.
A good magazine is a combination of stories, photos, drawings, opinions, reporting, whimsy, humor. It is an art that is not reproducible nor replaceable by any other medium.
"Vanity Fair Portraits" is the first major exhibition to unite the magazine's historic archive of rare vintage prints with its contemporary photographs.
Calling in those McKinsey folks to review your profit and loss numbers in the middle of the deepest recession since the 1930s is a little like having Dr. Kevorkian over to offer a second opinion.
A horizontal consumer magazine ad network is the wrong model. Don't do it. It will not protect magazines from brand erosion, the source of all value.
In the magazine business, we are used to hearing about magazines launching and shutting down all the time. Still, when you hear of a magazine's demise...
The industry has always been deadline-driven and goal-oriented, but now, there's a heightened focus on the bottom line--which doesn't leave much room for "teaching" meetings or farewell get-togethers.
People who read Gourmet are natural customers of neighborhood restaurants, local wine shops, local cheese mongers. But have you ever seen one of their ads in the magazine?
Taibbi, Rolling Stone magazine's teen heartthrob, became a sensation last month after calling Goldman Sachs "a giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity."
CBS is working round the clock to keep David Letterman's explanation of his extortion case off the Internet. The clip was not posted to either CB...
No matter how much he might disdain the W. presidency, especially when it came to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path.
It's perfectly fitting that cable shouter Glenn Beck stuck out his tongue for the Sept. 28 Time. It nicely captures the intellectually- underwhelming, angst-ridden media phenomenon.
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Stuff changes. And there will be losers. But to be the harbingers of doom about your own business? Aren't there plenty of others around to do that job?
Those old, wicked animosities between New York City and Conway, Ark., are heating up.
Journalists' experience is just what many ad agencies are looking for in 2009. One of their specific needs is experienced journalists who are great story-tellers.