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By Foster Kamer 6/12/12 4:19pm

That Time Tina Brown Almost Turned Obama Into Trayvon on the Cover of Newsweek

The presence of Tina Brown atop the Newsweek masthead has been nowhere more evident than on the cover of the magazine itself, from S & M to a very dead (and very photoshopped) Princess Diana. Love or despise Tina Brown’s cover-work, they’ve made people talk.

Surely, though, there have been more than a canceled ideas from that wellspring of manufactured, marketed scandal-making that didn’t pan out for whatever reason.

And today, we learn about one of those firsthand. Read More

By The Editors 12/05/10 4:19pm

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Best of 2010: The Year’s Most Memorable Magazine Covers

Magazines may only be on newsstands and coffee tables for a limited amount of time, but the best photos and layouts stay with us for much longer. The images may be shocking, gorgeous or simply make a point. And sometimes they even feature Brooklyn Decker. Regardless, here they are . . . The Year’s Read More

By Esther Zuckerman 6/25/10 5:40pm

Data Mining Sales

‘White’ Hollywood Vanity Fair Cover Sold Poorly at Newsstand

When Vanity Fair‘s March 2010 issue hit the newsstands, there was a fair bit of criticism that the actresses featured in the Annie Leibovitz-shot cover and photospread were, as Jezebel put it, “pretty, thin, female and white.”

Well, it turns out those characteristics do not necessarily sell magazines. The “A New Read More

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That Time Tina Brown Almost Turned Obama Into Trayvon on the Cover of Newsweek

Best of 2010: The Year’s Most Memorable Magazine Covers

‘White’ Hollywood Vanity Fair Cover Sold Poorly at Newsstand

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