Avon has signed former Mademoiselle editor Mandi Norwood to write the Michelle Obama Style Guide for next spring. [P6]
There were rumors that Anna Wintour might leave Vogue for a "cultural" position in Barack Obama‘s administration, but Ms. Wintour’s rep says it’s totally not true. [MSNBC via Gawker] Read More
For a while, in the glow of expanding stock market wealth, dot-com journalists pretty much had free run of the place. Get a faux-visionary C.E.O. to tell a good story in front of the money men about “vertical-market penetration” and “hypersyndication” and liberate the ratings-sensitive, focus-group-approved, newsstand-driven old media from its prisons while a new Read More
When New York Post news feature editor Vicky Ward quit on April 21 to be Talk ‘s executive editor, staff members left behind began sniping about their former boss to media columnists: They dredged up the “Mental Ward” nickname for her features department; some told New York magazine that Ms. Ward rewrote, yelled, over-assigned; an Read More
