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Time Inc. plans 280 layoffs in New York, shutters a mag, and parts ways with dozens of staffers, while CNN sees a major shakeup and Vogue poaches a publisher from Marie Claire.
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Check out the event photos from this week's cocktail party in Washington, D.C., where FishbowlDC editors Christine Delargy and Matt Dornic mingled with the D.C. media community.

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Distill breaking health news, pen personal essays, or come up with fun ways to package diet and fitness tips for this women's mag.
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Crunch Time for Time Warner (Daily Beast)
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes predicts that people will soon become accustomed to using a variety of technologies, both paid and free, to view movies, read magazines and newspapers, watch television and otherwise consume their favorite media.

Foreign Journalists Arrested in Tehran Crackdown (Times of London)
The Iranian regime has responded to mass protests in Tehran this week by implementing a crackdown on foreign journalists. Two Canadian, one Japanese and one Danish journalist are thought to have been arrested for "unauthorized reporting" on demonstrations Wednesday.

Must-Read TV: Ex-NBC Chief Warren Littlefield Penning Memoirs (The Wrap)
Former NBC Entertainment chief Warren Littlefield -- one of the architects of Must-See TV-- is writing his memoirs. Doubleday has bought the rights to the untitled tome, which Littlefield will pen with author/screenwriter T.R. Pearson. It's scheduled to be published in 2011.

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Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was Jackson Taylor, the novelist and Mediabistro teacher who has directed PEN's Prison Writing Program for the last 20 years.

Taylor shared his experiences working with hundreds of imprisoned authors and creative writing mentors. The writing program will be celebrated on Monday at Breakout: Voices from Inside--a fundraising event with appearances by Mary Gaitskill, Eric Bogosian, and John Turturro.

The show was hosted by GalleyCat editor Jason Boog and AgencySpy editor Matt Van Hoven. You can listen to all the past podcasts archived at mediabistro.com or download episodes for free on iTunes.

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