The Business of Magazines

[MON]

What even is Vogue Global Network

 

[Xone]

What even is Vogue Global Network

my thoughts exactly…

 

[caioherrero]

@Xone and @MON
Vogue Global Network unites all of Vogue's digital platforms around the world, via a central editorial team. As a digital-first brand, Vogue Global Network is the go-to for world-class fashion photography and intelligent, thought-provoking interviews, opinion and news. Celebrating talent on a global scale, we are here to reimagine the world's authority on fashion for a new generation.


Condé Nast - Vogue Global Network

 

[Xone]

@Xone and @MON
Vogue Global Network unites all of Vogue's digital platforms around the world, via a central editorial team. As a digital-first brand, Vogue Global Network is the go-to for world-class fashion photography and intelligent, thought-provoking interviews, opinion and news. Celebrating talent on a global scale, we are here to reimagine the world's authority on fashion for a new generation.


Condé Nast - Vogue Global Network

Thanks @caioherrero

 

[vogue28]

British Elle and Harper's Bazaar are now both offering 10 issues with an annual subscription. I know we've got a double December/January issue this month from both, so imagining they're now combining another issue in 2022 (Elle did October/November this year).

 

[8eight]

Elle UK Dec/Jan. Not one shop has a solo copy. They are all bagged with Harpers Bazaar.

 

[genin]

Ces ventes sont si basses, ça fait peur. Littéralement, personne n'achète Vogue.

That does not surprise me. I find that the French vogue has lowered in quality therm. 4 or 5 years ago it was better. 1 year ago only once or twice or there is something interesting. When I see what was done in the 80s, it saddens me.

 

[WinstonH20]

Earlier this month, Anna and Edward discussed digital transformation, sustainability and diversity and their impact on Vogue/Condé Nast's strategy moving forward:

 

[8eight]

Wearing sunglasses (her) and a hat (him) indoors just isn't necessary.

 

[Bertrando3]

In this interview Edward looked very weak and simply was just there to serve as an assistant almost. Anna keeps selling a dream that is long gone. NEXT!

 

[axiomatic]

So you want to be a magazine writer...

Meredith accused of stiffing staffers on Ayesha Curry's mag

Laid-off Meredith staffers have soured on the publishing company’s new Sweet July magazine — helmed by Food Network star Ayesha Curry.

Insiders tell Page Six employees of Shape magazine — for which Meredith shuttered print operations last month — had been pulling double duty working overtime on Curry’s lifestyle mag, but without receiving additional pay.

The employees received the ultimate slap in the face when they were let go from Shape a few weeks ago, we’re told.

“They were laid off without notice, but it seemed the company forgot the team that had been fired was also working on Curry’s magazine on top of Shape,” an insider explained.

Meredith announced the launch of the new quarterly magazine last year despite industry-wide ad woes. The Shape team produced five issues of Sweet July — a total of “roughly 375 hours from each worker” — according to a spokesperson from the News Guild labor union. Meredith is now desperate for the team to return to work to finish.

“There is still a sixth issue to produce, and the company knows it can’t make the magazine, so they’re asking the workers to return to work on the magazine as temporary employees and on a truncated production schedule that will be near to impossible to accomplish,” the spokesperson said.


Ayesha Curry and her husband, Steph Curry, appeared on Sweet July’s October issue.
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Ayesha is also the wife of NBA star Steph Curry, and she has 7.3 million Instagram followers. The couple appeared on an October issue of the magazine with their kids.

Meanwhile, Meredith is in the process of being sold to Barry Diller’s IAC company for $2.7 billion and “[Meredith] refuses to pay [laid off staffers] back for the 375 hours they worked without overtime pay on her magazine,” the insider fumed.

“They’re looking to get away with this unpaid work by offering them temporary work — even after they fired them,” they added.

On Wednesday, staffers and the NewsGuild made noise on social media by asking supporters to repost messages and memes such as: “Pay workers what they’re owed. I stand with the union.”

They’d hoped Curry would use her platform to stand up for the workers, but she has so far remained silent.

“Ayesha, your vision for Sweet July emphasizes that the stories behind the makers are as important as the products they sell. Right now, the story is one of exploitation and unpaid labor. This is not your vision,” one post read.

Reps for Curry and Meredith did not immediately get back to us.

In September, Ayesha and Steph Curry renewed their vows after 10 years of marriage.

 

[axiomatic]

InStyle, People, Entertainment Weekly now controlled by IAC

 

[axiomatic]

Shape ends print

Daily News: Shape Mag Shutters Print, Emily Ratajkowski Opens Up, Stay At Carrie Bradshaw's NYC Pad, Plus! Which Influencer Is Expecting? - Daily Front Row

SCOOP: Shape magazine to focus on digital
Meredith-owned health and lifestyle publication Shape is set to shutter print operations, save for two special editions produced every Spring and Fall. In an email obtained by the Daily sent by a Shape staff member, the print editorial team received the news today while simultaneously being told that today would be their last day in the office. In an official statement, a Meredith representative said: “As part of this new strategy, Shape will publish two special premium print editions per year for newsstands only and will no longer produce its existing subscription magazine ten times a year. Shape.com and our social media channels will continue to produce award-winning content.” The rep confirmed that experiences like SHAPE Beauty Box and SHAPE Body Shop events will remain intact too. Meredith was recently acquired by Dotdash in a deal reportedly worth $2.7 billion. The new company, called Dotdash Meredith, will be led by Dotdash chief executive Neil Vogel and will see Meredith’s 40+ magazines and digital outlets, including People, InStyle, Better Homes & Gardens, and Entertainment Weekly all operate under a new roof.

 

[axiomatic]

So you want to be a magazine writer, part 2

The City of New York Brings Legal Action Against L’Officiel USA – WWD

The City of New York has filed a lawsuit against L’Officiel USA Inc. for failing to pay freelancers on time — and some at all.

In a new legal filing, the City claimed that the U.S. outpost of the French magazine brand had an “egregious pattern or practice of unlawfully failing to compensate — or in some cases to timely compensate — at least 24 freelance workers for work performed by them.”

In failing to do so, the City said that it had violated the The New York City Freelance Isn’t Free Act, which requires a hiring party to pay the freelance worker for the services provided on or before the date the compensation is due under the contract, or if the contract does not specify, no later than 30 days after the completion of the freelance worker’s services under the contract.

“As a consequence, Defendant has unjustly benefitted, and continues to unjustly benefit, from the skilled work performed by countless freelance workers, causing great harm to the affected freelance workers, and to the City as a whole,” it stated in legal documents.

It added that the affected freelance workers, and the City as a whole, have suffered injury as a direct result of L’Officiel’s actions and that the City is entitled to injunctive relief, civil penalties and any other appropriate relief, while the injured freelance workers are entitled to recover double damages for violation of the payment provisions of FIFA.

According to the City’s filing, 24 freelancers, all New York City residents at the time, filed complaints of FIFA violations against L’Officiel with the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection for failure to comply with the Act’s payment requirements. Some also alleged other violations, including refusal to provide a written contract and retaliation.

DCWP then sent L’Officiel two written notices and the deadline to respond, along with notice that the failure to respond to the complaint would create a rebuttable presumption in any civil action that L’Officiel had committed the violation alleged in the complaint. In all but two cases, L’Officiel failed to respond to DCWP’s notification. In those two cases, L’Officiel responded to the notification by making the outstanding payment owed.

This is not the first time the company, headquartered in France, has been in hot water over remunerating freelancers. As previously reported by WWD earlier this year, the company is also understood to owe freelancers in other markets, including Paris and London. At the time, total owed amounts across all markets were thought to be close to 2 million euros and freelancers were looking to the French courts to help them in their effort to get paid.
L’Officiel is owned by the French family-owned media group Jalou Media Group and is backed in the U.S., where it has been active since 2018, by investment group Global Emerging Markets. Since 2020, Stefano Tonchi, the former editor in chief of oversize glossy fashion magazine W, has been consulting global chief creative officer at L’Officiel, providing consulting services to the various global editions.

A representative of L’Officiel USA did not immediately respond to request for comment.

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[axiomatic]

Marie Claire Isn’t Completely Done With Print – WWD

Marie Claire may have ended its regular print run to focus on digital, but it’s not disappearing from newsstands altogether.

Its new owner, U.K.-based and publicly listed Future plc., told WWD that it will still publish two issues a year, in May and September, the latter being the most crucial month of the year for magazine publishers as they seek to grab ad dollars.

“We’ve gone to twice a year with print,” Jason Webby, Future’s chief revenue officer in North America, said. “But we are primarily digital with the brand and that came from a lot of research on the demographic that we’re looking to connect with and that we do connect with. They resoundingly want to consume that content in a digital format. Our social footprint is really strong with Marie Claire. Our e-newsletters are very strong and growing.”

 

[caioherrero]

Kenya Hunt is the new EIC of Elle UK

 

[FashionMuseDior]

Earlier this month, Anna and Edward discussed digital transformation, sustainability and diversity and their impact on Vogue/Condé Nast's strategy moving forward:

It's Vogue...let's lift it.

Edward has come a long way He's the real life Nigel from Runway Magazine.

 

[mikel]

It's Vogue...let's lift it.

Edward has come a long way He's the real life Nigel from Runway Magazine.

He really is!

 

[GivenchyAddict]

This interview makes me so uncomfortable...

One side Anna on her full PR force with a very well learned speech trying to make people believe that this new CN era is so exciting. When she says "working altogether" I hear " working all under me"...

On the other side, we have Edward. His body language said it: uncomfortable, unsure, unprepared and so weak...

I don't understand the point of this interview. So useless.

 

[Phuel]

^^^ Can’t make it through. So much regurgitated phoniness (…not to mention the hilarity of Anna daring to utter “buying fewer pieces to pass on to their children..” LOOOOL As if the corporations that are supporting their luxe life are producing fewer collections, and less disposable fashion to boot. Oh Anna, so unintentionally comedic-- suit that Gucci dress says it all who her handlers are.)

For anyone that’s familiar with, and/or worked with copywriting/copywriters for media press kits, the talking points that these two have rehearsed and parroted before this “interview”, is so contrived and predictable, I’m actually embarrassed for them.

BTW, I find Edward’s demeanour strategically deliberate to be relatable to an easily impressionable audience. He’s portraying humility, not weakness (…hence that stupid bucket hat to finish the look…). He’s very much fashioned himself into “the people’s fashion editor” the way that Diana had fashioned herself into “the people’s princess”. This is a very strategic player in the game of editors (watching that throne…).