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July 1, 2009: Amber Estabrook has been named advertising director, international fashion and luxury at Vanity Fair. She had been executive director of international fashion at Vogue. (release)

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A Good Pre-Weekend Read: WWD's Michael Wolff Profile - Posted 2 days, 10 hours ago
Today, WWD takes a look at author, Vanity Fair columnist, media critic and all around character Michael Wolff, his Newser.com aggregator that houses his blog and his recent affair that was splashed all over Page Six. Journalists typically don't like to talk about themselves, so when a good profile of a media... [FishBowlNY]

ABC News' Rick Klein Checks In To The Menu - Posted 3 days, 12 hours ago
ABC News senior political reporter Rick Klein joined the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu today, talking about the week's big political headlines with GalleyCat's Jason Boog and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven. Today's political topics included Al Franken's new Senate seat and the new Vanity Fair profile of former VP candidate Sarah Palin. You can... [FishBowlNY]

Magazines Remembering Michael Hit Newsstands - Posted June 29, 2009
Forget Jon & Kate, Michael Jackson's death may be the latest event to help resuscitate the faltering magazine industry. After news of his death broke on Thursday afternoon, magazines rushed to honor the pop star. Today, Time magazine has a commemorative issue hitting newsstands. The issue features memories of Michael from a... [FishBowlNY]

Ex Men's Vogue Publisher Finds A New Home At Conde Nast - Posted June 18, 2009
Three months after Richard Beckman took over as CEO of Conde Nast-owned Fairchild Fashion Group, he has made his first big hire. Beckman has brought on former Men's Vogue publisher Marc Berger as publisher of trade pub Footwear News. Berger has replaced Jay Spaleta, who was named publisher of WWD in... [FishBowlNY]

With Future Of Media Uncertain, Mirror Awards Honor Journalists Covering Media - Posted June 9, 2009
Today's Mirror Awards luncheon at the Harmonie Club uptown was swarmed by all manner of media types. Media critics who were nominated for Mirrors like Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff, Rachel Sklar of Abrams Research (nominated twice for her work for the Huffington Post) and The New York Times' David Carr (who... [FishBowlNY]

Allure Names New Managing Editor - Posted May 27, 2009
Linda Wells, the editor-in-chief of beauty magazine Allure, named Felice Kaplan the title's new managing editor today. Kaplan, formerly the managing editor at Travel + Leisure Golf, will start work at the Conde Nast pub on June 1. The move is bringing Kaplan back to her roots: she started her career... [FishBowlNY]

Dr. Nancy Snyderman To Host MSNBC Show|HarperCollins' Revenue Declines|Google Could Save Journalism|CNBC Host Mad Over Kindle DX|Toby Young Hit By Car - Posted May 7, 2009
TVNewser: NBC News chief medical editor, and author of "Medical Myths That Can Kill You," Dr. Nancy Snyderman will anchor an MSNBC midday show focusing on health issues starting next month. GalleyCat: HarperCollins' revenue was down 20 percent last quarter. MediaJobsDaily: Is Google good for journalism? Silicon Alley Insider: CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is... [FishBowlNY]

Michael Wolff: 'What Do Men in Their Fifties and Sixties Know About Girls in Their Twenties? - Posted April 3, 2009
Yesterday Jeff Bercovici reported that Michael Wolff is set to hit back at the New York Post over their coverage of his alleged affair and marriage break-up, via a column in Vanity Fair. Should make for some good reading! In the meantime we bring you Wolff's column from today's... [FishBowlNY]

Bill Keller Responds to Vanity Fair's 'Bombast' - Posted April 1, 2009
Bill Keller is not such a fan of Mark Bowden's Vanity Fair write-around profile on Arthur Sulzberger Jr. His letter in full below (via Romenesko): To the Editor Vanity Fair If you strip away the bombast, the recycled anecdotes and the mistakes an elementary fact-checking should have caught ("1300 reporters" is off by... [FishBowlNY]

Vanity Fair on Arthur Sulzberger Jr: People Are Rooting for Him - Posted March 31, 2009
Speaking of The New York Times, which is pretty much all we've been doing these past few days, have you read Mark Bowden's piece in the upcoming Vanity Fair on Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.? It's a good long one -- despite the fact Sulzberger refused to talk to... [FishBowlNY]

Vanity Fair on Arthur Sulzberger Jr: People Are Rooting for Him - Posted March 31, 2009
Speaking of The New York Times, which is pretty much all we've been doing these past few days, have you read Mark Bowden's piece in the upcoming Vanity Fair on Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.? It's a good one -- despite the fact Sulzberger refused to talk to Cuban,... [FishBowlNY]

Newspapers Failing Social Networking 101 - Posted March 31, 2009
According to a report from Gartner Inc., newspapers need to do much, much more to engage the social side of their readers if they hope to compete in the increasingly difficult marketplace. Specifically, newspaper Web sites fail to integrate social media tools effectively. As a result, while 49 percent of those... [FishBowlNY]

Conde Nast Cuts Website Launches but Still Hopeful About Magazines! - Posted December 4, 2008
Conde Nast: Always looking to the future! Agency Spy is saying that a spy has told them that Conde Nast has decided to put all its website launches on hold for the time being. Maybe not all that surprising considering not that long ago they decided to downsize Portfolio...in... [FishBowlNY]

Not Your Typical Power 40 From Details - Posted November 26, 2008
Details Power 40 list didn't have the cachet of a Vanity Fair, Time or Newsweek list. But with an anonymous Secret Service Agent, bailout czar Neel Kashkari and the Palin family leading the list, the mag makes it clear that they're doing their list their way. Yes, to keep up with the naysayers... [FishBowlLA]

Vanity Fair Comes Back With A Smaller, Better Edited Party - Posted November 25, 2008
The Vanity Fair Oscar party, which loves to turn people away in droves, canceled last year because of the Writers' strike. But the see-and-be-seen soiree is set to return on Feb. 22 not at the usual place, Morten's, but rather at the Sunset Tower, Associated Press states. VF editor Graydon Carter says this... [FishBowlLA]

Tina Brown on The Daily Beast: 'I Spend a Hell of a Lot of Time in My Pajamas' - Posted November 24, 2008
One sometimes wonders if Tina Brown's The Daily Beast would have had such an easy time defining itself if not for the sprawling presence of the Huffington Post — it seems Brown never misses the chance to subtly point the differences. This Sunday Brown was a guest on Howie Kurtz's... [FishBowlNY]

Fashion Magazines Hit Hard by Economic Downturn - Posted November 14, 2008
We're starting to get a sense of how bad a hit the mag industry has taken this year. WWD is reporting that fashion and luxury titles have borne the brunt. The industry as a whole saw a 10% decline in ad pages in the third quarter as a result... [FishBowlNY]

Michael Wolff on Rupert Murdoch's Family Ties - Posted October 31, 2008
Vanity Fair is excerpting Michael Wolff's much talked-about (much criticized by Rupe, himself) forthcoming book, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch. Judging from the excerpt the secret world involves, perhaps not surprisingly, a whole lot of family dysfunction, except that Rupe doesn't like... [FishBowlNY]

Conde Nast Cuts Five Percent of All Staff, Men's Vogue in Jeopardy - Posted October 30, 2008
The long slippery slope to demise that the print world has been on for the last year or so just got a whole lot steeper and slippier this week. Whoosh! Today's bit of bad news comes from Conde Nast. The Observer is reporting that all the editors and... [FishBowlNY]

W Cover Features Angelina Jolie Breastfeeding - Posted October 13, 2008
Remember way back in the early nineties, before the Internet and the end of capitalism, how the world almost ended because Demi Moore posed naked and pregnant on the cover of Vanity Fair? Those were the days. The cover of this month's W features Angelina Jolie breastfeeding. The "intimate" photos... [FishBowlNY]

Maria Bartiromo in Vanity Fair: 'Living in a Fishbowl' - Posted September 29, 2008
Vanity Fair couldn't have asked for better timing with regards to their upcoming feature on CNBC's ("money honey") Maria Bartiromo. Of course, Wall Street bailout aside, what would a profile of a smart, attractive woman be if it didn't include a catfight?!As for their rivalry...The rumors, both women say, have... [FishBowlNY]

When Print is Just an Afterthought: Vanity Fair's Lance Armstrong Scoop Gets Scooped - Posted September 11, 2008
At some point we imagine that the magazine world is going to figure out how to do advertising so that prices reflect more accurately how much views, or traffic, or just all-around attention any given page, or post, or article is getting. At which point printed magazines will become the... [FishBowlNY]

Enough About the News, Let's Talk About Us — Why Don't You Like Us? - Posted August 7, 2008
Wow, so the New York Times seems to be doing its own peculiar impression of Woody Allen at his most neurotic. A recent reader's survey from the Times wants to know what it is exactly about them that you don't like. Was it that whole Judy Miller thing? ... [FishBowlNY]

Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Something - Posted July 30, 2008
Probably before the Internet, and its pesky quota-filling bloggers, it was a lot easier to borrow magazine images without drawing a lot of attention. No longer! In the past few months it's been similar images of Barack Obama that have garnered the most attention. However, today we bring... [FishBowlNY]

VF's Best-Dressed: Political Wives All the Rage - Posted July 29, 2008
We had come to the conclusion that the Sartorialist had made "International Best Dressed Lists" obsolete. But apparently not so according to Vanity Fair who will publish this year's round-up in its Sept. issue. Not surprisingly Michelle Obama and (VF cover-girl) Carla Bruni both made the top ten. ... [FishBowlNY]

Vanity Fair's Selfless Act of Solidarity - Posted July 22, 2008
Well, if nothing else at least the folks at Vanity Fair have a sense of humor (or does this also count as liberal bias?). Per their Politics & Power blog:Heaven knows we've published our share of scandalous images, on the cover and otherwise. So we've been watching the kerfuffle over... [FishBowlNY]

Who Are You?: Adventures in Anonymous Sourcing - Posted July 16, 2008
You may remember the kerfuffle that took place last month (also know as ancient history in this election cycle) when Vanity Fair published Todd Purdum's long and not-so-flattering article on Bill Clinton. In the uproar that followed much of the Clinton camp's criticism centered around the fact that almost all... [FishBowlNY]

Barry Diller: "Editorship Is Going To Emerge As the Real Value-Add" - Posted January 30, 2008
IAC chairman Barry Diller introduces Tina Brown at today's MPA/ASME awards Though we snuck in sometime between the salad and the sea bass at today's Magazine Lifetime Achievement Awards Luncheon at Manhattan's Gotham Hall, we still managed to squeeze in some QT with the F.O.T's* and the S.O.B's* at today's Magazine Publishers... [FishBowlNY]

FBLA 20 Questions: Bruce Feirstein - Posted June 25, 2007
Bruce Feirstein, contributing editor, Vanity Fair and screenwriter answered our 20 questions without a moment's hesitation, unlike others with fewer accomplishments. Why? Because he's a lady. 1. What newspapers do you read? Dead Tree Editions: New York Times, L.A. Times, The Economist (which, you'll note, defines itself as a newspaper.)... [FishBowlLA]

Ain't No Little Miss Sunshine for Johnny Lopez - Posted January 31, 2007
Vanity Fair might want to rethink having the office boy write the Oscar blog. Julian Sancton tries to sell us the old canard that comedies can't win Best Picture, and then tosses most of those that have won aside, so he can make his point that Little Miss Sunshine is doomed.... [FishBowlLA]

Michael Wolff Interviews Billionaire, Promised 'Consultations' - Posted January 9, 2007
Vanity Fair's media writer must have had flashbacks of his dot-com days. Michael Wolff finds himself not only in an "off-the-record" interview with a billionaire who would like to buy a newspaper, but also giving the guy advice. Wolff tells one of the great man's aides on his way out:... [FishBowlNY]

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