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Feminist Press Honors Huffington|Mother Jones Focuses On Climate Change|More On The Vanity Fair Layoffs|Latina's Special Mexico Issue Brings In Ads - Posted October 23, 2009
GalleyCat: Arianna Huffington was among the women honored by the Feminist Press at its 39th Annual Women Write the World Gala last night. BayNewser: Mother Jones is gathering a group of publications to work collectively to report on climate change. The group may eventually include Slate, Grist, The Atlantic, Wired, ProPublica and... [FishBowlNY]

Condé Nast Casualty Tweets About His Layoff - Posted October 20, 2009
As Condé Nast continues to purge employees, it looks like we'll see more Tweets like this one from former Wired editor Mark Horowitz yesterday. Related: What's Left At Condé Nast... [FishBowlNY]

4 Questions For Media Panel Moderator Extraordinaire Sara Benincasa - Posted October 19, 2009
At mediabistro.com's Dessert and Discourse event for women's magazine editors earlier this month, moderator Sara Benincasa guided the conversation about digital content creation with humor and an expert command of the issues at hand. At one point she warned all of the women in attendance that "the cattiness" was about to... [FishBowlNY]

4 Questions For Media Panel Moderator Extraordinaire Sara Benincasa - Posted October 19, 2009
At mediabistro.com's Dessert and Discourse event for women's magazine editors earlier this month, moderator Sara Benincasa guided the conversation about digital content creation with humor and an expert command of the issues at hand. At one point she warned all of the women in attendance that "the cattiness" was about to... [FishBowlNY]

What's Left At Condé Nast? - Posted October 8, 2009
Condé Nast is one of the largest magazine publishers in the U.S., and the news earlier this week that it was shuttering four titles really didn't change that. Condé still has 18 consumer magazine titles, plus two trades -- WWD and Footwear News -- under its Fairchild Publications arm. But the... [FishBowlNY]

What's Left At Condé Nast? - Posted October 8, 2009
Condé Nast is one of the largest magazine publishers in the U.S., and the news earlier this week that it was shuttering four titles really didn't change that. Condé still has 18 consumer magazine titles, plus two trades -- WWD and Footwear News -- under its Fairchild Publications arm. But the... [FishBowlNY]

Wired Editor Chris Anderson Squares Off Against Macmillan CEO John Sargent on Free and Paid Content - Posted September 23, 2009
Photo: (left to right) Chris Anderson, Gary Hoenig, John Sargent, Alan Murray Last night's discussion, Free AND Paid Content: Business Models That Work, hinged on whether consumers of news and books should and will pay for content online. But it became a tense intellectual slugging match between John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan... [FishBowlNY]

Wired Editor Chris Anderson Squares Off Against Macmillan CEO John Sargent on Free and Paid Content - Posted September 23, 2009
Photo: (left to right) Chris Anderson, Gary Hoenig, John Sargent, Alan Murray Last night's discussion, Free AND Paid Content: Business Models That Work, hinged on whether consumers of news and books should and will pay for content online. But it became a tense intellectual slugging match between John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan... [FishBowlNY]

Metro Reveals New Look - Posted September 11, 2009
Starting on Monday, the free newspaper Metro will unveil a new design in its New York, Boston and Philadelphia editions (see right). The new look will include a "sleeker design and more sophisticated look while maintaining the concise, contemporary and colorful elements readers look for every day," said publisher Metro International. The... [FishBowlNY]

How VQR's Jaquith Found Anderson's Plagiarism (Hint: It's In Parentheses) - Posted June 25, 2009
Virginia Quarterly Review blogger Waldo Jaquith made quite a stir with his discovery that portions of Wired editor Chris Anderson's new book "Free" were pulled from unattributed sources, namely Wikipedia. But we wondered, how did Jaquith happen upon Anderson's plagiarized sections? We tracked down Jaquith -- as he was en route... [FishBowlNY]

VQR Calls Wired's Anderson Out On Plagiarism - Posted June 24, 2009
Virginia Quarterly Review blogger Waldo Jaquith has dug up passages from Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson's new book, "Free," in which Anderson pulls chunks of text from Wikipedia entries, without attribution. In addition to the allegations of plagiarism, it also seems like Anderson didn't fact check some of the info pulled from... [FishBowlNY]

VQR Calls Wired's Anderson Out On Plagiarism - Posted June 24, 2009
Virginia Quarterly Review blogger Waldo Jaquith has dug up passages from Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson's new book, "Free," in which Anderson pulls chunks of text from Wikipedia entries, without attribution. In addition to the allegations of plagiarism, it also seems like Anderson didn't fact check some of the info pulled from... [FishBowlNY]

Talking Erotica On The Menu: Author Rachel Kramer Bussel Visits To Discuss The Industry, Book Trailers And Ippy Awards - Posted June 24, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, host Jason Boog welcomes AgencySpy editor Matt Van Hoven and erotic writer Rachel Kramer Bussel to talk about media headlines and some new book industry news. The trio discussed The Virginia Quarterly Review's story accusing Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson of plagiarism in his... [FishBowlNY]

Talking Erotica On The Menu: Author Rachel Kramer Bussel Visits To Discuss The Industry, Book Trailers And Ippy Awards - Posted June 24, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, host Jason Boog welcomes AgencySpy editor Matt Van Hoven and erotic writer Rachel Kramer Bussel to talk about media headlines and some new book industry news. The trio discussed The Virginia Quarterly Review's story accusing Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson of plagiarism in his... [FishBowlNY]

Men's Health Tries A New Way To Earn Revenue - Posted June 18, 2009
With ad revenues slipping in the past year, magazines have been trying to find new ways to earn money and keep their publications afloat. With its latest idea, Men's Health might be on to something. Using new technology only made possible with Apple Inc.'s iPhone operating system upgrade this week, the... [FishBowlNY]

Wired's Anderson: "The Free Vs. Paid Debate Is Misunderstood" - Posted June 15, 2009
Today, we are staking out Wired magazine's Disruptive By Design business conference. Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson (left) opened the day with a discussion about his upcoming book: "Free: The Future of a Radical Price," and of course, he eventually started to talk about how the media has been affected by the... [FishBowlNY]

The Best Mags On Twitter - Posted June 3, 2009
Paste magazine needs assurances that Twitter is more than just a waste of time, so its set about compiling top 10 lists of the best microbloggers out there. Yesterday, the magazine released its list of the top 10 magazines to follow on Twitter. Topping the list are Wired (@Wired) and Good... [FishBowlNY]

Swine Flu Hits Conde Nast As Newhouse Profile Hits Newsstands - Posted June 1, 2009
This morning, a warning went out to all of Conde Nast's New York employees that an employee on the 12th floor of the company's 4 Times Square headquarters had tested positive for swine flu. (If you're hip to Conde HQ you know that floor is where Vogue is housed.) But since the... [FishBowlNY]

WSJ Gives Away Content Via iPhone App - Posted April 16, 2009
When we first glanced at Wired's report that the Wall Street Journal's iPhone app allowed users to access the paper's content for free we assumed they meant that some glitch in the app had allowed this to happen, so strange was the idea that the WSJ wanted to give anything away... [FishBowlNY]

How to Make Money Online? Print It! - Posted January 13, 2009
Can this be considered the dog wagging the tail 2.0? Wired is reporting that The Printed Blog is aiming to aggregate local blog posts and offer them as a free twice-daily paper(!) in select cities. The current plan is to launch the paper in on January 27 at various... [FishBowlNY]

Yahoo's Jerry Yang Steps Down as CEO - Posted November 18, 2008
Looks like at least one chapter of the long Yahoo soap opera has drawn to a close. Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo back in 1995 announced yesterday that he was stepping down from his position as CEO. The move comes after many, many months of wrangling, proxy battling, and... [FishBowlNY]

TheAtlantic.com Taps Wired's Bob Cohn as Editorial Director - Posted November 10, 2008
TheAtlantic.com, which launched its redesign last month, has just announced the hiring of Wired's executive editor Bob Cohn for the newly-created role of editorial director. Per the press release:Reporting to Editor James Bennet and based in Washington, DC, Cohn will oversee the iconic publishing brand's digital editorial efforts, including its... [FishBowlNY]

Conde Nast Cuts Five Percent of All Staff, Men's Vogue in Jeopardy - Posted October 30, 2008
The long slippery slope to demise that the print world has been on for the last year or so just got a whole lot steeper and slippier this week. Whoosh! Today's bit of bad news comes from Conde Nast. The Observer is reporting that all the editors and... [FishBowlNY]

Hacker Goes To Hollywood: Did The MPAA Pirate Its Anti-Piracy Info? - Posted October 24, 2007
Wired magazine reports the Motion Picture Association of America promised a young hacker "money and power" if he betrayed his BitTorrent friends as part of the MPAA's anti-piracy crusade: In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells for the first time how the Motion Picture Association of America... [FishBowlLA]

Burning Man's Burning Man Spills - Posted August 31, 2007
ValleyWag has an exclusive interview with the Burning Man early bird arsonist but no one seems very interested. Paul Addis, the terror of tent town, turns a nice phrase: Burning Man had degenerated into a postindustrial disco. Wired also has an "exclusive" Q & A,which is pretty much the same stuff. Scott Beale... [FishBowlLA]

Wired Goes Negative - Posted January 17, 2007
Wired magazine is perhaps the most positive, life-affirming publication on the planet. If someone threw a rock at their window, someone there would write a cover story about how shards of glass will save humanity. So it's a bit amazing to hear Wired editor Chris Anderson declare that "the age of the... [FishBowlLA]