“Way back in 1989, when the first Bush was president and EW.com was just a twinkle in Bill Gannon’s eye, Ken was on the start-up team that launched Entertainment Weekly with this original mission statement: ‘We must be opinionated and we must be talked about,’ wrote Jess Cagle, EW’s managing editor, in a note. “Ken never stopped fulfilling that mission, and even though he’s leaving EW, his voice, sensibility, humor, passion, incomparable wit and humane spirit will have a lasting and benevolent impact.”

“So, yes, I’m leaving @EW, my home base since 1989,” tweeted Tucker. “Had a great time helping launch that super-fine mag/website. Time to write elsewhere.”

Cagle’s full memo is below.

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1. Sue Simmons Gives Rare, Candid Interview, February 4
2. ESPN The Magazine‘s Music Issue Features Iconic Album Covers Recreated with Athletes, February 5
3. WNYW Anchor Dari Alexander‘s  Unfortunate ‘Sitting Shiva’ Misspeak, February 5
4. Media Reporters Finally Realizing No One Cares About Media Reporting, February 5
5. Lisa Schwarzbaum Departs Entertainment Weekly After 21 Years, February 6
6. Sally Preston, Others Dropped by Time Inc., January 31

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Lisa Schwarzbaum

Schwarzbaum became EW’s film critic in 1994 and is responsible for some of the magazine’s most impressive pieces, including a massive feature on a TV show that no one was paying much attention to at the time. It was called Seinfeld.

“There will be more writing from Lisa,” wrote Jess Cagle, managing editor EW, in the note. “A book idea is brewing. So is an online venture, as well as other developing projects. And she does want to keep writing about movies when inspiration strikes. I will miss her, but look forward to becoming just another Lisa Schwarzbaum groupie.”

The full note from Cagle is below.

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How can someone position themselves for TV appearances of the kind that you make regularly? For a writer looking to get into that, is it just about getting the right job (where producers come to you), or is it about actively pitching yourself?
I think the important thing is just to know what you’re talking about and really study it. Find something that you’re extremely interested in, so that becoming an expert in it doesn’t feel at all like a job or a chore. If I didn’t have the job that I have, I would still be obsessed with the Oscars and I would still know who Quvenzhané Wallis is. It just happens to be that this is what I get to talk about for work.

I feel like all the great stuff I’ve gotten to do over the years, whether it’s the Today show or being the Academy greeter, it was never a calculated plan. I just tried to be comfortable in front of the camera and really develop an expertise. I think the fact of the matter is that I’m really interested in this, and that just shows when I talk about it or in the past when I have written about it.

For more, read So What Do You Do, Dave Karger, Chief Correspondent for Fandango?

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Welcome back to FishbowlNY’s weekly Cover Battle. Today we have Entertainment Weekly versus T: The New York Times Style Magazine. We had to choose EW’s cover because 1) Star Wars is awesome 2) Star Wars is awesome and 3) They thankfully didn’t include Jabba The Hutt.

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Boucher spent more than 20 years at the Los Angeles Times, where he became famous for his Hero Complex blog, which explored and celebrated the life of comic books and the fanboy culture. His popularity flowed by anchoring the video show, Hero Complex: The Show. Boucher has hosted numerous live events, including Comic-Con.

Boucher will remain based in Los Angeles.

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Jeff Giles

Giles reports to Jess Cagle, Managing Editor of Entertainment Weekly.

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The winners will be revealed next week, but FishbowlNY has learned exclusively about several of the honorees.

CBS has been chosen for the Hottest Drama on broadcast television, while ABC has been awarded for the Hottest Comedy. On cable, MTV was picked for Hottest Reality show. Adweek does not reveal the hottest shows by name.

In digital, the Hottest Celebrity Website is TMZ. Spotify is taking home two awards: Hottest Startup and Streaming Web. Zynga is selected as Hottest Gaming Company.

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The point is that it’s difficult to choose who came out the winner in that situation. This isn’t the case with magazines. There are numbers, and though the numbers can be skewed a bit, they’re generally a reliable indicator of a title’s health.

The New York Times reports that for weeklies, the big winners for the first half are Time, The Week and The New Yorker. Time increased its newsstand sales 16 percent from January through June, and saw its total circulation climb to about 3.4 million. That put it way ahead of the pack, because The Week posted just a two percent gain in overall circulation and The New Yorker’s single-copy sales jumped by only 1.2 percent. But they’re all still winners, and that’s a good thing.

Newsweek – despite attempting to post the oddest collection of covers ever – headed up the losers for weeklies.

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However, according to the latest from min, all was not lost. Magazine websites, particularly Entertainment Weekly’s, saw huge traffic boosts from the ceremony:

Its +12.60% February-versus-January differential (unique visitors were fractionally down) peaked on February 28, when 12.6 million PVs were measured as the Oscar recap was posted. Sum was +85% versus post-Oscars 2010 (March 8, 2010), but it was the social echoes that really paid off. Over 15,000 comments were posted on a blog that proved to be the most popular live coverage ever for EW, even beating its famous Lost finale coverage (May 23, 2010). Further, EW Oscar stories were shared over 10,000 times on Facebook, and the post-Oscar wave even hit the magazine’s mobile site, which hit a daily record with over half a million page views.

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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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Goldberg lashed out at the paper, and co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck canceled her subscription in protest. Goldberg claimed it was a travesty that the Times didn’t know she had won:

It’s hard not to take it personally. People in Somalia know; people in China know. You’re supposed to be better than this. This is not some newspaper from Hoochie-Coochie Land. Dammit, get your facts straight!

However, the piece in question, titled “Hollywood Whiteout,” by Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott, seems to have been misread. This according to the Times, who issued a statement to Entertainment Weekly writer Ken Tucker, who covered the story early yesterday. The statement:

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As of January 31st, People was the number one most followed magazine with 2.3 million followers, then Time, Instyle, WWD, and Entertainment Weekly round out the top five.

Of course just because those magazines have a lot of followers doesn’t mean they know how to turn the numbers into cash, but regardless, it bodes well for the brand in general. So to those at Time that we might have offended with our joke, we’re sorry for being temporarily right.

Check out the 50 most followed magazines after the jump.

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But magazine’s entertainment blog, Vulture, has been gearing up for a massive revamp, which it is unveiling this week. The redesigned blog now includes new widgets to help you search, expanded coverage and highlights, under the leadership of recent hires Josh Wolk (formerly of Entertainment Weekly) and Claude Brodesser-Akner as entertainment editor and West Coast editor, respectively.

In addition, NYmag.com is looking towards doubling their first quarter profits from the same time last year. So while ad sales might be trickling back into print, there is still an argument to be made for keeping your Web sites timely and relevant. Hear that, Condé?

Full press release after the jump.

Previously: Enetertainment Weekly Editor Joins NYMag.com, Former FishbowlLA Editor Joins NYMag.com As West Coast Editor

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Festino has previously worked at Entertainment Weekly and Runner’s World and has served as art director at ESPN magazine and Bon Appetit.

He will be joining Fortune on February 8, reporting to the business magazine’s creative director John Korpics.

Related: Time Names New Design Director

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