The Business of Magazines

Phuel · Mar 29, 2021

^^^ That sort of processed fortune-cookie coverline x sitting-on-an-apple-crate-against-a-white-seamless catalogue portrait isn’t stirring any excitement nor anticipation for me. I guess it’s another one for the teenybopper market.

(Would love to be proven wrong…)

Bertrando3 · Mar 29, 2021

Phuel said: ↑

^^^ That sort of processed fortune-cookie coverline x sitting-on-an-apple-crate-against-a-white-seamless catalogue portrait isn’t stirring any excitement nor anticipation for me. I guess it’s another one for the teenybopper market.

(Would love to be proven wrong…)
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He's an amazing actor actually, and although this cover is very generic and catalogue-ish, I still see bits of high fashion with the pose/styling but yeah of course these covers could have been way way more high fashion since it's for Vogue and it's a magazine launch and so on but I sort of lost any anticipation of any magazines nowadays to truly produce anything HIGH HIGH HIGH fashion-esque and glamorous and fierce like back in the good-old-days of Fashion magazines (a.k.a 20 years ago loooool) but it's still good to see covers like these when you compare them with what GQ does anyhow; but I get what you mean.

Marc10 · Apr 1, 2021

Interview EIC Nick Haramis will be leaving the magazine after the upcoming Summer issue.

mikel · Apr 1, 2021

Marc10 said: ↑

Interview EIC Nick Haramis will be leaving the magazine after the upcoming Summer issue.
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Why? He didn’t get paid?

axiomatic · Apr 3, 2021

Rolling Stone hits back amid calls to boycott magazine

Rolling Stone is punching back after a blog post claimed that the magazine “sold out” to President Trump and the Saudis under its owner Jay Penske led to calls for a boycott.

The story, by “The Hill Reporter” dubbed “The Demise of Rolling Stone: How A Legendary Magazine Sold Out to Trump and the Saudis,” ignited calls across the Twitterverse to #BoycottRollingStone on Friday in part by resurfacing old information about magazine’s parent company’s ties to the Saudis.

The story also blasted the Penske Media CEO for his ties to Trump, although it appeared to conflate the media mogul with his auto-racing magnate dad, Roger Penske.

“Jay is a high-profile GOP donor who fired tenured and experienced journalists, then hired hacks to write tabloid level pieces that leaned so far to the right, he was awarded a Presidential Medal from the former guy himself,” the post said.

In fact, it was the elder Penske who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019. The younger Penske, by contrast, helped throw a 2016 election viewing party with high-profile supporters of Hillary Clinton, according to WWD.

Rolling Stone’s rebuttal, however, focused solely on The Hill Reporter’s claims that a yet-to-be-published piece on MeidasTouch, a left-leaning political action committee focused on stopping Trump’s reelection, was politically motivated.

“The attacks being made against Rolling Stone’s journalistic integrity and our reporter are entirely unfounded and false,” said Brooke Jaffe, a spokeswoman for Rolling Stone parent Penske Media Corp. “Rolling Stone’s journalists pursue the truth and hold power to account without input from anyone outside our editorial staff. Any notion that Rolling Stone is pro-Trump is demonstrably false, as a review of our coverage would reveal. No tactics will persuade us from pursuing our core mission: to deliver the news responsibly to our audience.”

A source said The Hill Reporter story by Tara Dubin kicked off after award-winning freelance journalist Seth Hettena — who has bylines in The New York Times and New Republic and who wrote an incisive piece for the glossy last year on Blackwater founder Erik Prince — reached out to MeidasTouch for commentary on his story.

The group asked for an extension to respond, which was granted it. But instead of providing a statement to the reporter, MeidasTouch took to Twitter, posting a lengthy reply, calling the story “defamatory.”

In making the case that Rolling Stone is conducting a “smear campaign” against the PAC, Dubin rehashed a subject that has become touchy since the gruesome murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018.

In February 2018, Penske Media — which also owns Variety, Women’s Wear Daily and The Hollywood Reporter — received a $200 million investment by a Saudi Arabian public fund.

The funding came at a time when the fund was making big investments in media and entertainment firms, but many beneficiaries returned the funds amid questions about Khashoggi’s death following his trip to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Penske has remained silent on the investment stake, even after US intelligence reports confirmed that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself ordered the reporter’s execution.

The blog post made the rounds on Twitter with some users retweeting an image from Dubin’s article, which shows Roger Penske receiving the medal of honor from Trump in 2019, with his son, Jay, watching in the background.

Democratic writer and editor Grant Stern tweeted, “Rolling Stone used to be the home of Hunter S. Thompson, now people are tweeting #BoycottRollingStone after their ties to Trump and the Saudis have been exposed.”

Even “Pulp Fiction” actress Rosanna Arquette jumped in on the call to action, tweeting simply: “#BoycottRollingStone,” as the hashtag began to take off going into the weekend.
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axiomatic · Apr 3, 2021

Nick Haramis Exits as Editor of Interview Magazine – WWD

Interview magazine is out one editor in chief.

Nick Haramis, who in 2017 joined the large glossy started by Andy Warhol, is said to be leaving the title for reasons unknown. Haramis wrote in a post to Instagram that he’s “moving on” from Interview in a month, right after the magazine’s summer issue is wrapped up.

“I’m doing so with countless memories that I feel so incredibly lucky to have been able to make with such a talented, resilient, ragtag group of humans that I love and respect,” he wrote.

Haramis could not be reached for additional comment, nor could Interview’s publisher, Jason Nikic.

There is speculation that the move has something to do with Interview’s history of financial issues, but Haramis is expected to be going to another job, although it is unclear where he may be heading. Jobs in magazine media are not nearly as prevalent as they once were given the industry has been hit hard by years advertising declines, including amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The resiliency he mentioned in his brief social media post is certainly something he and the rest of Interview’s staff have needed in the last few years. About a year after Haramis joined the magazine as editor, its then-owner Peter Brant abruptly put it into bankruptcy amid growing financial issues.

The choice of proceeding was a Chapter 7 liquidation, not a more typical Chapter 11 reorganization, so the magazine abruptly shut down and Brant left scores of freelancers and other creditors without some $3 million in total payments. The magazine was led by Brant’s eldest daughter Kelly Brant and Nikic, who was chief revenue officer, and had been losing money for some time. Prior to bankruptcy the magazine had a reputation for not paying workers on time and not paying freelancers. It was facing several lawsuits over the issue.

A long list of creditors included long time editorial director Fabien Baron, who just before the bankruptcy filing quit the magazine. He then sued Interview for $600,000 in unpaid wages and work expenses. It is unclear if he was ever paid, but bankruptcy creditors often are not.

Yet Interview said it would “relaunch” about five months after its liquidation filing. Brant, who purchased the title from the Warhol estate in 1987, decided to sell the publishing assets and IP to his daughter Kelly, who set up a new entity for the transfer, Crystal Ball Media, led by herself and Nikic. The sudden bankruptcy, liquidation to reduce asset value and selling back to a family member who had overseen the magazine while it was unable to pay workers made the whole process appear to be a way for the title to simply avoid paying its million of dollars in debts.

But relaunch it did, in September 2018, with a new staff of about 18 people, including Mel Ottenberg as creative director. Haramis stayed on as editor. But even then there were whispers of the magazine being late in paying the freelancers hired to help bring the issue together. Nevertheless, Interview has continued to publish six issues a year and has drawn high-profile celebrity talent for covers.
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JPineapple · Apr 9, 2021 at 6:00 PM

What’s happened?

JPineapple · Apr 9, 2021 at 6:07 PM

UPDATE: This happened

MON · Apr 10, 2021 at 12:53 AM

That was done for a shoot? My goodness..

balmain1914 · Apr 14, 2021 at 3:46 AM

sometimes you just don't know how stupid and racist these famous fashion insiders could be.
a Parisian joke like this during the STOPASIANHATE period?
It is your choice that you don't support the movement, but you should not tease the group facing discrimination and attack at this difficult time...

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