Here’s a look at what FishbowlNY stories made the most buzz this week.

1. Horrible, Terrible, Bad Celtic Rajon Rondo Joins GQ as Intern, September 7
2. O Magazine Announces Three New Hires, September 11
3. Cover Battle: Architectural Digest or Time Style and Design, September 6
4. New York Times Makes Right Call With No Front Page Coverage of 9/11, September 11
5. Time Adds Social Media Editor, September 12
6. Cover Battle: Rolling Stone or New York, September 13
7. Nipples on New Yorker Cartoon Prompt a Facebook Ban, September 11

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Fareed Zakaria is staying out of trouble with on Time magazine. Zakaria received ridicule for plagiarizing a New Yorker article in his latest Time column.

But a Time spokesperson says in a statement that the Zakaria matter is over.

“We have completed a thorough review of each of Fareed Zakaria’s columns for Time, and we are entirely satisfied that the language in question in his recent column was an unintentional error and an isolated incident for which he has apologized. We look forward to having Fareed’s thoughtful and important voice back in the magazine with his next column in the issue that comes out on September 7.”

Zakaria also hosts a weekly show on CNN.

Photo: CNN.com

Here’s a look at what FishbowlNY stories made the most buzz this week.

1. News Gone from WEMP, Alternative Music Returns, July 17
2. WEMP Begins Phase as New Rock 101.9, July 18
3. Breaking: End of Line for Merlin’s WEMP as FM News, July 16
4. Breaking: WNYW Brass Meet for Greg Kelly Damage Control, July 19
5. USA Today and MLB Launch ‘Sports on Earth,’ July 17
6. New Yorker Caption Contest Features Cartoon from Seinfeld, July 18

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Here’s a look at what FishbowlNY stories made the most buzz this week.

1. Writer Quits XOJane to Do More Drugs, June 14
2. Anna Wintour Admits Glorifying Mass Murderers Isn’t a Good Idea, June 11
3. Patch Sets Records for Revenue and Traffic, June 11
4. New Yorker Cover Pokes Fun at Bloomberg Soda Ban (left), June 13
5. WNYW Airs Tweet From Newark Mayor Cory Booker About Relationship with President Obama, June 8
6. Warner Fusselle, Brooklyn Cyclones, Veteran Baseball Announcer, Dies at 68
7. Veteran WINS Reporter Terry Sheridan Jumps Ship to WEMP, June 10

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Sarah Stillman is a New York-based journalist. She has written about Iraq and Afghanistan for several publications or online sites, including Slate, The Washington Post, the Nation and the Dallas Morning News.

Stillman, the inaugural winner of the New York University Carter Journalism Institute’s Reporting Award, has added two trophies to her mantle. Her piece in the June 6, 2011 issue of the New Yorker was entitled “Invisible Army.”  She documents poor treatment of Third-World nationals working on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Sarah’s compelling story is a perfect representation of the work we’re trying to encourage at a time of cutbacks in editorial budgets,” said Stephen Solomon, associate director of the Institute.

The Reporting Award, in its second year, funds articles on under-reported subjects in the public interest.

Stillman was decorated with the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism and National Magazine Award in the category of public interest.

John Biggs at TechCrunch analyzes why the New Yorker app is far superior to the magazine, and why this is officially the death of print:

The iPad version includes everything that currently exists in the print title… except in a much cleaner form. Each issue costs $4.99 and e-only subscriptions cost $59 a year. iPad and print subscriptions cost $69.

There are no graphical tricks, not too many multimedia events, and when there are, they’re great (one poetry reading by Sherman Alexie in the latest issue was amazing). And even the ads are unobtrusive and, dare I say it, beautiful in full living color… This is a full rethinking of the title and changes entirely how we consume long-form writing.

But nothing will convince you of how cool the New Yorker app is quite like having it sold to you by Jason Schwartzman, hipster rockstar:

You’re welcome.

Last night’s ASME National Magazine Awards had more than a few surprises. The evening began with a cocktail hour for a change, where FishbowlNY had drinks with Graydon Carter, Bethenny Frankel, David Copperfield, and other media celebrities milling around the red carpet. We caught up with a few nominees, such as the editor of Audobon magazine: “We’ve been nominated for 5 years,” he told us, “and we haven’t won once. I wasn’t going to attend, but then I thought, what if we win this year?”

They didn’t. Oh, well! Some other choice quotes: we heard from Bethenny Frankel that she always reads her magazine coverage in nail salons, because she is medicated on planes.

The evening began on a somber note, with Graydon Carter acknowledging the many journalists who had died or been detained while reporting in war areas, and presenting a slideshow of the work of Vanity Fair contributor Tim Hetherington, who died in Misrata, Libya.

But the mood lightened as the awards were announced. Some of the big winners of the night were New York Times Magazine, New York, and National Geographic, each taking home a couple of awards, with National Geographic jubilantly winning “Magazine of the Year.”

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When Emily Gordon was let go from her position as editor-in-chief of design magazine Print last week after just over a year at the helm, it came as a surprise to her staff, the magazine’s readers and the design community. But no one was more surprised than Gordon herself, especially when she read the job description the magazine’s publisher, F+W Media, posted for her replacement.

“They’ve eliminated my job,” Gordon explained, since F+W is now seeking a “content director” to lead the magazine, emphasizing multichannel content providing over the traditional editorial role. “If it took getting rid of me for them to understand that content management is the most important thing for the future of Print, and if Print can survive, then I think it’s worth the sacrifice. But I think I could have done it just as well.”

Gordon, who was promoted to editor-in-chief from senior editor in the fall of 2008, said she was puzzled by the implication in comments made by F+W Media president David Blansfield to Folio magazine that she wasn’t able to take the Print brand beyond print. “We’re excited about the opportunity to work with a new leader of the brand — someone who embraces the idea of multiplatform first and wants to inform and grow our design community,” Blansfield told the industry trade last week.

As co-creator of The Nation‘s Web site in the mid-90′s and founder of Emdashes.com, a popular New Yorker-centric blog, Gordon has worked in both print and the Web for years. She’s also moderating a panel at this year’s SXSW on blogging versus microblogs, illustrating that she has a pretty good handle on the Web and its challenges. “I have not had a conversation where anyone sat down with me and said, ‘You know, you’ve been editor-in-chief of the magazine, but this is where we see your job going,’” she told FishbowlNY. “My 2010 plans for Print were all about content management. To say that I am print-centric is silly. I’ve had my feet in both camps for 17 years. This is more evidence of the fact that upper management [at F+W] doesn’t have the time to spend surveying their staff assets.”

To Gordon, her inability to live up to F+W’s expectations was not for lack of trying or ability. The company is just too geographically and ideologically disparate, spread out among offices across the country operating publications covering everything from writing and design to horticulture and firearms. And while the five-person staff at Print tried to put out the magazine while also working to create a Web site design fans would love and produce monthly, design-themed paid webinars, F+W never hired someone specifically devoted to managing content or audience development for the magazine — a position that could act as a go-between for Gordon, Print‘s publisher and F+W’s upper management — so good ideas went unexecuted. “The company does not lack for talent or initiative but it just doesn’t invest in it,” Gordon said.

For now, Gordon says she’ll remain a friend of Print, helping prepare for its 70th anniversary later this year and just last week completing its application for the ASME National Magazine Awards. Last year, the publication won an Ellie for general excellence for magazines under 100,000 circulation for the second year in a row. (That’s a picture of Gordon accepting the award above.) FishbowlNY got our hands on Gordon’s acceptance speech from last year and we think it’s an interesting read given what’s transpired since.

Her Ellie speech, after the jump

Related: Multichannel-Bent Publishers Give Longtime Print Staffers the Cold Shoulder –Folio, Editor Out, F+W Looks to Expand Role at Print –Folio, Is Print Next To Fold? –UnBeige

Previously: Breaking: Print Magazine Loses Editor-in-Chief, Seven Questions For Print‘s New Editor-in-Chief Emily Gordon

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With the end of the year upon us (almost) we’re girding ourselves against the inevitable onslaught of top ten end-of-the-year lists.

But we were unprepared for the sheer number of lists Time magazine has pumped out for the end of the year.

One of our favorites is their top ten magazine covers of 2009. Their list? Two New York magazine covers (including Bernie Madoff as The Joker) and two New Yorker covers, Texas Monthly and The Advocate, among others.

Another list that caught our attention is Time‘s top 10 relevant comics about 2009′s political and social issues, including Al Franken vs. Norm Coleman from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a Newsday number about Iranian Twitter users, and yes, even a Jon & Kate joke from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. View them all here.

The Top Ten Everything of 2009 –Time

–Additional reporting by Drew Grant

Time.com has a new Q&A with author and New Yorker essayist Malcolm Gladwell, as he promotes his latest book, a collection of New Yorker pieces entitled What the Dog Saw.

The last question, in which Gladwell offers advice to young journalists, caught our eye:

“Aspiring journalists should stop going to journalism programs and go to some other kind of grad school. If I was studying today, I would go get a master’s in statistics, and maybe do a bunch of accounting courses and then write from that perspective. I think that’s the way to survive. The role of the generalist is diminishing. Journalism has to get smarter.”

Although journalism programs at graduate schools saw an increase in enrollment this year, we’re sure there are a few people who would agree with Gladwell, maybe even including some recently laid off reporters with J-school degrees.

What do you think?

Author Malcolm Gladwell — Time.com

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