I was joined today by Anne Fulenwider who has plenty to celebrate these days having  “come home” to Marie Claire in September. She was tapped for the top job after Joanna Coles departed for Cosmo when Kate White left to write her best sellers full-time. I know, you need a score card for all this, but do try to keep up. Anne’s extraordinary rise to the top of the masthead is a master class on how to succeed in publishing by being very smart, working hard and staying grounded amid all the glitz and glamour (yes, to civilians and the uninitiated this is a glamorous business). The Harvard graduate came to New York in the mid-nineties and landed her first job in magazines working for David Lauren at Swing. An internship at The Paris Review turned into a gig as research assistant to George Plimpton when he was working on his book on Truman Capote. Anne got quite an education diving into boxes of fascinating transcripts, fact checking scores of Plimpton’s interviews and, occasionally ”chopping carrots” at his home and pitching in whenever needed. All in a day’s work.

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When the book was done, she went on to become senior editor, moved to Vanity Fair where she was editor of the magazine’s popular “Fanfare” section, and wound up editing the work of Leslie Bennetts, Buzz Bissinger and Dominick Dunne. Except for a brief sojourn to San Francisco, she spent a decade at the magazine where, she said, she “grew up” and was “inspired” by Vanity Fair’s great reporting and writing and learned that “maintaining quality” and upholding the highest journalistic standards (“There were armies of fact checkers and researchers!”) were critical to the vitality and relevance of a successful magazine.

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“With Chanel as a partner it launched the Backstage Beauty Trends iPad App and Marie Claire @Work, which debuted last year as a saddle-stitched supplement, came back in 2012 with bigger, perfect-bound issues this May and September,” explains Ad Age. Driving that success isNancy Berger Cardone, Marie Claire’s publisher and Ad Age’s publisher of the year.

While Marie Claire took home those honors, Tyrangiel — the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg Businessweek — has to be happy about being named editor of the year. Tyrangiel believes his writers make him and the magazine look good. “I like that we have journalists who really want to do stories that ask very difficult questions that are sometimes in conflict with the people that we cover,” said Tyrangiel.

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To accomplish that goal, Ad Age has ditched jumps, and is presenting all of its content on one page, or on consecutive pages. The magazine also boasts a “companion app,” called Ad Age Interact. The app, created by Nellymoser, allows readers to simply scan articles they’re perusing to share them digitally with friends.

The new Adage.com is sleeker and cleaner, with updated fonts and easily-navigated subsections. The Opinion section has also been expanded, and there is now a Briefings section that provides all the news readers need in a quick hit format.

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The award is part of Ad Age’s annual “A List,” which celebrates titles that are, “meeting a challenge, turning things around, building new businesses or just setting a consistent editorial and business example.”

For a complete run down of the nine other magazines that made the A List and why, click the link above. The top five are after the jump.

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Edmund Lee

According to Lee, he starts at Bloomberg in a “a few weeks.”

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Ad Age explains that this breaks down to about 12 minutes a day per user, and then puts that into context:

In 2009, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American spent 8.7 hours a night sleeping. Men spent just 16 minutes a day doing housework (women spent 36 minutes). Exercise? 18 minutes. Religious and spiritual activities? Nine minutes. You get the picture.

That is just sad. We live in a world where revolutions are erupting all – oh lord have mercy. Peggy just posted more pics of her in that damn bikini, like she’s something special. That girl has no shame.

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Ad Age reports that Fortune500+ will launch tomorrow and offer users information on companies, such as where they rank in the 500 listing, and live headlines related to each business.

Who knows if people will actually use this, but maybe because it’s for something so specific, it will be a hit with Fortune readers. It’s worth a try.

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The study took into account reader reaction to over 90,000 print ads, and logged which ones moved consumers to purchase the item after seeing the ad. Of course, the stats are a bit flawed because most people would take a chance at buying something that isn’t expensive, but no matter! Studies are fun.

The number one ad? This one on the right, for Kraft Natural Cheese. 86 percent of the people surveyed said that they’d get crazy and buy some cheese after seeing the ad. The rest of the top five involved either a food or a beverage, and they were all inexpensive.

Apparently we are a nation of hungry risk takers.

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The app is a digital version of the popular Must List, which features pop culture picks from the magazine’s editors. Cagle says that magazine staffers figured out quickly that the list was the best way to go when creating their iPad app:

We felt it was really critical to leverage the capabilities of the iPad, and that’s a primary reason we decided to launch with the Must List app. It’s a popular print feature that translates extremely well to a digital platform, where users can act immediately on our recommendations with one tap. Plus, from a development perspective, it was a manageable concept for us to deliver a quality, useful experience in a very short production window.

Seems like a smart strategy for an app to us.

Cagel tells Ad Age that even though the app is in its infancy, updates are already on the way. He  also says that it’s not necessarily the biggest celebrity news that gets the most attention from readers, sometimes it’s an indie band or some obscure website.

So keep writing that blog about socks that look like presidents, you never know when your time to shine will come.

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Gregg Hano, Vice President, Group Publisher at Bonnier Technology Group, says that no matter the numbers, the goal is always getting people to subscribe:

We’ve been averaging 10,000 to 12,000 unit sales per month almost since the beginning. Now we’re going to be above that in March. We’re inching up over that. And we look forward to continuing to see subscriptions grow. Hopefully people keep testing Popular Science on their tablets and then hopefully come back and subscribing.

As Ad Age notes, even if consumers do subscribe, Bonnier won’t know much about them. One of the issues publishers have with Apple’s system is that it doesn’t allow them to view any information about the consumers who purchase the titles. When you’re trying to sell advertising and sustain a business, this is obviously a problem.

But for now at least, it appears Apple’s system isn’t hurting. Another feather in Steve Jobs’ hat, should he ever decide to wear one.

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The Daily’s Publisher, Greg Clayman, tells Ad Age that he expects it to be successful. He says that it’s the perfect app for people because it changes every day, and that its blend of serious stories with ones like the dog article are a strength:

It probably leans more toward the tabloid-y than broadsheet-y, but we want to be fun. We want to be funny. We want to be serious as well. You’re covering serious stories and breaking news and people come to you for that but they also come to you for your voice and your take on events.

Of course all this talk goes out the window Monday, when Clayman will get to find out if people really do like The Daily, or just like it now because it’s free. We’re guessing it will be fine. People pay one dollar for an app that turns an iPhone into a flashlight, and The Daily has got to be better than that.

Right?

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Earlier we told you that People is the most followed magazine on Twitter, and now Ad Age is reporting that People.com reached one billion page views last month.

The site easily beat out other magazines that maintain a popular online presence, says Nat Ives of Ad Age:

Visitors to New York magazine’s site, one of magazines’ most successful digital operations, generated 69.9 million page views in January, New York said, citing Omniture. Us Weekly visitors generated 205 million page views in January, according to Us Weekly, which doesn’t use Omniture but cited Google Anlaytics data.

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Jessica Cassity has recently worked as a freelance fitness writer for The New York Times, Fitness, Self, Shape and Weight Watchers, as well as Prevention. Previously, she was a contributing editor at Health magazine.

Cassity also co-created the Pilates instructor Web site www.pilates-pro.com and worked as Soho community leader for Lululemon, where she managed the apparel company’s community-based programs like free yoga in Bryant Park.

Full press release after the jump.

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Ad Age: Just over a month after the hip hop magazine Vibe closed, there are reports that the owners of Uptown magazine have been in talks to buy and revive the title. Ad Age reporter Nat Ives said via Twitter that the buyers had confirmed his report.

American Spectator: Ex-New York Times columnist Ben Stein speaks out about his recent ouster.

Newsweek: A look at some of the magazines that managed to attract more ad pages during that first half of this year than they did during the same period in 2008.

Seattle Times: How important is anonymity to food critics today? Food critic Nancy Leson talks about the difficulty that comes with trying to remain anonymous and whether its even possible in the Internet age.

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Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, host Jason Boog of GalleyCat was joined by co-host Kevin Allocca, editor of TVNewser, and memoirist Richard Farrell.

Farrell spoke about his memoir “What’s Left of Us,” the story of his heroin addiction and the life experiences that came along with it. After he detoxed and overcame his addiction, Farrell went on to become an author, filmmaker and screenwriter. He produced the documentary, High on Crack Street, which aired on HBO, and he wrote the script for the upcoming film The Fighter based on the documentary, which stars Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg — proving that there can be life after addiction.

“My book is about hope, it’s not about being a tough guy,” Farrell said. “I wrote it so that people could see. It’s a pretty dark book. It’s pretty graphic. It’s exactly how I lived it then.”

Farrell also gave advice about writing memoirs and screenplays. “Along my career I never gave up on that I was going to write this some day, I was going to tell my story, I was going to be a writer, that I wanted to be a writer,” he added. “And of course for a lot of writers that means you have to teach, so I became a teacher in college.” Farrell currently teaches English at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.

Also discussed: An Ad Age report that newspaper revenues will eventually rebound and News Corp.‘s Chase Carey‘s comments that the free television model has to change.

You can listen to all the past podcasts at BlogTalkRadio.com/mediabistro and call in at 646-929-0321.

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