The New York Times ombudswoman—yes: woman!—has made her first mark at the paper. What’s it look like? What’s up with Cosmo‘s new look? What do campaign reporters think about this year’s campaign? What piece absolutely needed to be written today that was finally written? All that, and more, in your Thursday Evening Media Briefs: Read More
There’s a scene in Girls, Lena Dunham’s “voice of her generation” HBO series, where the dweeby Shoshanna sits on the floor of her Elizabeth Street bedroom, surrounded by magazines. Jessa, her worldlier cousin, pulls off her headphones long enough to inquire what she’s getting up to.
“It’s my manifestation board,” Shoshanna explains, “I use it for inspiration. Like when I’m not feeling inspired I just look at it.”
A riff on “vision boards,” an Oprah-endorsed self-help method from The Secret, the pastime signaled her character’s naïveté, of a kind with her pink velour sweatsuit and Sex and the City worship. A scrapbook for the life one wishes one had, the “vision board” has been mocked by everyone from Barbara Ehrenreich to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. But aspirational scrapbooking lives on, nowhere more so than on Pinterest, the image-sharing site that exploded early this year to reach more than 10 million users. Read More
On Thursday night, the newest editor-in-chief in the Conde Nast pantheon, Brides editor, Anne Fulenwider posed for a photograph with her new bosses, executives John Bellando and Jill Bright, and her husband Bryan Blatstein. As they arranged themselves, a drink slipped out of hand, shattering upon impact and splashing the celebrants with champagne. Read More
Conde Nast’s sole remaining bridal magazine is going head-to-head with web rival The Knot, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Conde closed Modern Bride and Elegant Bride in favor of regular-type Brides last fall, but it’s not out of the game! It’s “doubling Brides‘ frequency, making it a monthly, and is introducing Read More
So much for the cuddlier Condé: Keith Kelly is reporting that a Brides staffer was fired for showing her sports bra to two coworkers. They were apparently curious about her recent breast augmentation surgery.
“It was within the confines of my office, behind closed doors,” she told the Post. “There was Read More
The magazine layoffs are beginning now at Conde Nast.
About a dozen people were laid off today at Brides, the only Conde Nast bridal magazine left standing after the company’s elimination of Modern Bride and Elegant Bride on Monday afternoon. All of the layoffs today were on the publishing side, a Conde Nast source said.
According to an Read More
