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]

Condé Nast already has digital video channels for GQ and Glamour, so if you’re a fan of those, we have good news for you: There’s more on their way. WWD reports that channels for Vogue and Wired will launch in the next couple weeks; Vanity Fair’s will debut in June; and by the end of the year, Teen Vogue, epicurious.com and style.com will have their own channels.

The new channels will be much like GQ and Glamour’s, in that they’ll try to emulate TV:

Vogue’s digital channel, to debut shortly after the Costume Institute Gala on Monday, will in all feature ten non-scripted Web series, including behind the scenes footage of events like the Met Ball; a cooking series with the model Elettra Wiedemann; a documentary-style chronicle of designers competing for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund — it is called ‘The Fund’ — and ‘Vogue Jeanius,’ a series on denim trends. Programming on Wired includes ‘Codefellas,’ an animated scripted series and ‘The Window,’ about engineering stories.

Everyone will tell you that the future of the web is video, so this is a smart move by Condé. As with anything though, if the content isn’t good, people won’t care. That’s going to be the challenge: Presenting quality programming. That’s easier said than done, as you can see by checking the cable listings. Lord knows we don’t need another Married to Medicine.

Welcome back to another edition of FishbowlNY’s Cover Battle. Today we’re featuring Vogue versus The Atlantic. Vogue went with a fantastic photograph of the First Lady, Michelle Obama. We have nothing bad to say about this because there is nothing bad to say about Mrs. Obama. Hey girl! Sorry. Ahem. Moving on.

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Anna Wintour, the famed editor-in-chief of Vogue, has been named artistic director of Condé Nast, a new role at the company. Wintour, who became editor of Vogue since 1988, will now oversee all of Condé’s brands, something S.I. Newhouse Jr. had done for 30 years. Newhouse recently began dialing back his responsibilities at Condé.

Despite this, it’s unclear exactly what being an “artistic director” entails. Here is how Charles Townsend, Condé Nast’s CEO, explains Wintour’s new position:

The establishment of an artistic director is a reflection of our commitment to preserve and champion all that exists ‘Only at Condé Nast.’ In today’s business environment, it is critical to promote and foster our established creative authority. This is the ideal time to leverage Anna’s extraordinary vision and leadership to amplify and elevate the profile of Condé Nast U.S. both domestically and abroad. Anna is an icon in the worlds of fashion, business and the arts, she has the foresight and wisdom to influence the major trends of our society and is respected globally as an accomplished businesswoman.

Okay then!

Wintour will (of course) remain as editor of Vogue and editorial director of Teen Vogue.

Laurie Jones, close associate of Anna Wintour at Vogue, is leaving the magazine. According to the New York Post, Jones — currently managing editor of Vogue — is stepping down February 28.

Jones is known for hiring Wintour when Jones was a managing editor at New York. Years later, Wintour brought Jones to Vogue.

Here is the cover of Vogue’s March issue, featuring Beyoncé. She’s a singer or something. We’ll update when we learn more.

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

1) How Many Times Does This Vogue Piece Make You Want to Vomit?

2) The ‘Trial Separation’ is Over: Greg Kelly and Rosanna Scotto Back Together on WNYW’s Good Day New York

3) Time Inc. Staffers Prepare for Cuts

4) Time Inc. Cuts 500, Eliminates Six Percent of Workforce

5) Please Don’t Try to Copy The New Republic

6) Michael Bloomberg is an Ass Man

7) ‘No Better Place’ for Midge Woolsey, Ending WXQR Career After Two Decades

8) Morale at The New York Times is Sort of Low

9) Sally Preston, Others Dropped by Time Inc.

10) Is CBS Sports Radio Ready to Take Over 660?

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It’s still early, but we think Vogue has published the most intolerable article of 2013. “American Pastoral: Miranda Brooks and Bastien Halard’s Brooklyn Home” is horrible in every way possible; thrusting privileged quaintness at readers like a hammer bludgeoning a skull. Let’s go ahead and count up all the times we wanted to vomit while reading the piece, shall we?

“Did you feed the bunnies?” Miranda Brooks asks her husband, Bastien Halard, as she ladles cauliflower soup into an antique ironstone china bowl.

This is the first goddamn sentence. If you can’t stomach this, just close this tab and forget you ever heard of this article. Go on, save yourself. It’s better this way. Still here? Grab some Pepto, because this is about to get downright nasty.

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According to the New York Daily News, Beyoncé is going to grace the cover of the March issue of Vogue. Annie Leibovitz allegedly finished shooting the pop sensation last week.

Hopefully this new Beyoncefied (a technical term for “making something great”) cover is better than the last time she appeared on the front of Vogue.

Grace Coddington, the creative director at Vogue, got the New York Times profile treatment this weekend. In case you missed it, here are five interesting things we learned about Coddington from perusing the piece.

1. Coddington is about to release a memoir titled Grace, which she was paid $1.2 million to write.
2. She shares two cats — Bart and Pumpkin — with her boyfriend. Bart is named after Bart Simpson. We’re just guessing about that.
3. When Coddington was young, she attended a convent school where the nuns roller-skated.
4. She once asked Madonna to wear a hat that looked like a “cream cake.” Madonna, ever the fashionista, wasn’t happy about it.
5. Coddington’s advice to young designers? It helps to have “a few things going wrong in their life.”