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Time Goes All in With Angelina Jolie Coverage

Angelina Jolie’s op-ed in the New York Times detailing her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy has garnered a lot of attention. Time is keeping that going with its latest issue. The cover features the 37-year-old actress and inside is a report on how Jolie’s decision could affect other women and much more.

The new issue of Time hits newsstands tomorrow.

The New Yorker Launches Anonymous Tip Box

The New Yorker has launched an anonymous online tip box called “Strongbox.” The tool is designed to allow anyone to send a document, file, image, whatever, to the New Yorker, while keeping their identity a total secret. It’s basically WikiLeaks for pretentious people. Kidding!

The Wall Street Journal has something similar called SafeHouse, but that had several security flaws. And since you never hear about it, it seems like it’s not going so well. The New Yorker recognizes that something could go awry when submitting. In a post about the tool, the magazine states, “Strongbox does not provide perfect security. Among other risks, if you share your unique code name, or if your computer is compromised, any activities, including communications through Strongbox, should be considered compromised as well.”

If you’re willing to take that risk, have at it. Start sending your cartoons of pigs at the complaint department today.

Michael Hiestand Takes Buyout, Leaves USA Today

Michael Hiestand is leaving USA Today after 24 years. According to the Sherman Report, Hiestand has accepted a buyout from the paper. Hiestand said that he decided it was time to try something new.

“The people at USA Today do a good job. There are some good people there. But I’m ready to try some new things. You just want to figure out, ‘What is the right niche for me?’ Having the buyout will give me a little bit of time. It gives me some time away from the everyday deadlines.”

Hiestand’s last column ran Friday.

THR Prints Early Copies For NYC Upfronts

The Hollywood Reporter printed early copies of its magazine for New York’s upfronts this week.

The magazine will be available for the NBC and Fox upfronts on Monday, and a similar ABC event tomorrow.

Here’s an email from THR.com editor, Chris Krewson:

We’ll have 1,000 copies of the book at the upfronts for both NBC (Radio City Music Hall) and Fox (Beacon Theater) today, and 1,000 copies at ABC’s presentation tomorrow at Lincoln Center. Additional copies at these hotels: Mandarin, Four Seasons, The London, NoMad, The Mark Hotel, and the St. Regis.
You can also find the issue at Michael’s, the Peninsula, Gansevoort Park and Dream Downtown.
We worked to close the issue Friday (our usual close is Monday, so we pushed out two issues last week). The cover is Damon Lindelof and the Rise of the Power Writer — there’s a cool writer’s reunion package where we gathered the scribes from the X-Files (including Vince Gilligan / Breaking Bad), Buffy (Joss Whedon and co.), the Shield and Murphy Brown.

Kate Upton Appears on Latest Vogue Cover

Kate Upton can now add US Vogue to her list of covers. Upton appears on the front of Vogue’s June issue, which labels her as an “American dream girl” and “the hottest supermodel on Earth.” Please keep any comments about her eyebrows to yourself.

[Image: Vogue]

Boring Guy Tom Hanks Tops ’100 Most Trusted People in America’ List

Reader’s Digest just published a piece titled the “100 Most Trusted People in America” and Tom Hanks took the top spot. This is not surprising. Hanks is perhaps the most boring dude alive. You know those dreams you have where nothing significant happens and you wake up knowing you had a dream so you feel like you should tell someone about it but it’s so vague you end up not saying anything? That’s what hanging out with Hanks is like.

Anyway, Sandra Bullock was number two in the poll. Which uh, see above.

Other highlights:

Write a Feature on Fabulous New York Homes for Dwell

Still going strong after 13 years, Dwell sets itself apart from other design magazines by providing insights on modern design and architecture that are as fresh as they are practical . “We don’t want people to create an artificial idea of how they live in their home,” said editor-in-chief Amanda Dameron. “We tell the owners to clean their house as if they’re having a good friend over. Don’t go buying pricey flowers!”

Dameron says that even though her team receives more than enough pitches, one of the best ways to distinguish your submission is to get behind a camera. ”We put a lot of resources behind how we tell our stories visually. So when we’re reviewing initial ideas, having good pics always helps.”

Get contact info, pitch suggestions and more at How To Pitch: Dwell.

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Nick Braun

The New Yorker Goes with Two Moms for Mother’s Day Cover

One day The New Yorker publishing a Mother’s Day cover featuring two moms won’t be a thing, but for now, it still is. However, we’re getting there. For example, our first reaction to this cover was “Man, that’s a nice kitchen.”

Chris Ware created the illustration and shared some thoughts on it with the New Yorker’s Culture Blog:

Few people today don’t know—or have in their families—at least one loving couple who are raising children, same-sex or not. And it’s really just the loving part that matters. That same-sex marriage could go from its preliminary draft of ‘diagnosable’ to the final edit of ‘so what?’ must indicate some positive evolution on the part of the larger human consciousness.

Food Network Magazine and HGTV Magazine Raise Rate Base

Food Network Magazine and HGTV Magazine are both raising their rate bases, proving once again that people love TV so much they’ll eat up whatever format it mutates into.

Food Network Magazine will jump to 1.55 million with the July/August 2013 issue, and next year will raise its rate base twice. The January/February issue will hit 1.6 million and the July/August issue will see another bump, up to 1.65 million. HGTV Magazine is boosting its base to 800,000 with the July/August 2013 issue and then again — to one million — with the January/February 2014 issue.

In a statement, Vicki WellingtonFood Network Magazine’s vice president, publisher and chief revenue officer, said, “Our growth has exceeded our most ambitious goals and aspirations.” Dan Fuchs, publisher and chief revenue officer of HGTV Magazine, said its increase was a “a testament to our unique home and lifestyle content mix.”

Guy Fieri merely sat back in his La-Z-Boy, cracked open a Bud Light Lime and whispered, “Excellent.”

Deborah Way Named Deputy Editor of Oprah Magazine

O, The Oprah Magazine, promoted Deborah Way to deputy editor, the Hearst-owned publication announced Thursday.

Working under newly-appointed editor-in-chief Lucy Kaylin, she starts on Monday.

Way joined O in 2005 as features editor and has been executive editor since 2008.

She previously served as editor-in-chief of Indianapolis Monthly, which won multiple Clarion and City & Regional Magazine Association awards under her leadership.

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