New York’s fashion blog, The Cut, has added Maureen O’Connor as its new Features Editor, according to WWD. O’Connor comes to The Cut from Gawker, where she has worked since 2009. Prior to that she contributed to The Daily Beast.

According to a New York spokesperson, O’Connor will be tasked with appointing features for the blog among other duties.

O’Connor’s last day at Gawker is this Friday.

Attention all you politicos out there: New York magazine’s John Heilemann is hosting a conversation with President Obama’s senior strategist David Axelrod at the 92nd Street Y. Heilemann knows his stuff: He covers politics for New York and is the author of the fantastic book Game Change, about the 2008 election. In other words, this will be fun event.

We’re not saying that Heilemann will ask Obama to save the Knicks, but you might want to be there just in case he does.

Tickets are on sale now.

[H/T: Daily Intel]

The American Society of Magazines Editors (ASME) have announced the winners of its annual best magazine cover contest. New York took the big prize, winning “Best Cover” for its October 3 issue, shown above.

New York has given Contributing Editor Jessica Pressler a new monthly business column, titled “The Money.” The feature will focus on the many big personalities in business, beginning with former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack. In Pressler’s first piece for The Money, she gets Mack to delve into Wall Street’s scene and what he’s been doing since leaving the firm.

Adam Moss says that Pressler is a perfect fit for the new column. “She is especially good as a portraitist, and this column will play to that strength by telling its stories through individuals, some known, some not,” explains Moss. “She’ll be writing about finance and other realms of business, with business itself pretty broadly defined.”

Pressler has been with New York since 2007.

The ASME has been under a bit of fire, but it still had time to announce the 2012 Magazine of The Year Finalists. As usual, there’s not much surprise, as Time, The New Yorker, Esquire, New York and Popular Mechanics were all nominated.

We’re sure all the people at the magazines are happy, but Adam Moss of New York had the best reaction to the news. ”Well, everyone is very happy about it, of course,” Moss told WWD. “But we beat Popular Mechanics last week in the bowling league, so really, the Magazine of the Year thing is just gravy.”

The Magazine of The Year will be announced May 3, along with all the other Ellie finalists.

Salon has named Willa Paskin its new TV Critic. Paskin comes to the site from New York, where she served as Deputy Entertainment Editor for Vulture. Kerry Lauerman, Salon’s Executive Editor, told The New York Observer that sometimes — just sometimes — internships pay off.

“Willa was actually a star intern for us in 2006-2007, and I’ve followed her writing ever since, especially her terrific work at Vulture,” Laureman said via email to the Observer. “When the position opened up, she was a natural person to approach, and I was thrilled when she accepted.”

New York is a fantastic magazine, so you’re probably already a subscriber. However, if you’re not — maybe you were in jail or you’re a dog who can read but is way too frugal — now is your chance to get in on the action. In honor of its Twitter account surpassing 100,000 followers, New York has announced that it is giving away 25 year-long subscriptions.

All you have to do is follow the account and tweet, “Those crazy kids at @NYMag hit 100K followers, and are celebrating by giving away 25 subscriptions. #NYMag100K.” Do that before 4 pm today, and you could win the subscription.

It’s a great deal, so get to it.

Here’s something that will surely get you fired: Every issue of New York magazine, from 1968 through 2005, is available at your fingertips. This is all thanks to Cover Browser, a site dedicated to cataloging comic books, magazines and DVD covers.

We suggest passing the rest of the day by reading articles by Gloria Steinem or laughing at cover features on cross-country skiing (“cross-country skiing is great for not-so-great skiers!”) and 1992′s “new bohemia,” Williamsburg.

Just don’t tell your boss we said anything. We don’t need (more) angry emails.

(h/t Twitter)

New York has named Thomas Alberty as its new Design Director. Alberty comes to New York from GQ, where he had been since 2004. WWD reports that Alberty was most recently the GQ’s Art Director.

Alberty succeeds Chris Dixon, who left New York in September for the designer job at Vanity Fair.

New York magazine has named Matt Zoller Seitz its new Televison Critic. Seitz was most recently the Television Critic for Salon, and prior to that he worked as a critic for various publications, including the New York Times and the Dallas Observer.

At New York he will produce reviews for the magazine and Vulture, nymag.com’s entertainment vertical.

“TV is in many ways the great popular art form of our time, and so the position of TV critic at the magazine and Vulture is crucial,” said Adam Moss, New York’s Editor-in-Chief. “Matt’s passion for the medium and sharp writing make him the perfect hybrid critic, to provide both rapid commentary online and more lengthy, considered reviews in print.”