The Business of Magazines

[8eight]

GQ UK Dec 2018 30th anniversary cover has been shot on the google pixel phone.

 

[8eight]

I wonder if Vogue will have a google cover?

 

[TZ001]

Vogue Hong Kong to Launch Early 2019

 

[axiomatic]

Condé Nast’s latest wave of cuts hits digital side
Keith J. Kelly

Condé Nast on Thursday quickly moved to phase two in its reorganization.

Layoffs on the digital side of operations came as it works to integrate more of its domestic and international operations into one global tech team.

There were no estimates on how many were let go in the process, although word circulated that audiovisual and tech support were hit.

“It sounds like Monday was phase one with the ad sales and this is phase two with the tech people,” said one source.

Speculation continues to swirl that phase three will involve editorial in the near future, although the company was trying to tamp down that speculation.

Condé confirmed that Fred Santarpia was exiting, and said that a new global tech team was forming to be headed by Edward Cudahy of Condé’s domestic arm and Lee Wilkinson on the international side. The team reports to Bob Sauerberg, the CEO of domestic, and Wolfgang Blau, the president of international.

The company did say Thursday that for the moment it plans to keep its Austin, Tex.-based Digital Innovation Center, which Santarpia opened in 2016 and currently has about 50 employees.

The company, which lost $120 million last year, is expected to lose at least $60 million this year.

The company is cutting staff, trying to sell off unwanted magazines like Brides, Golf Digest and W, and is also cutting back on its real estate needs at One World Trade Center.

https://nypost.com/2018/10/25/conde-nasts-latest-wave-of-cuts-hits-digital-side/

 

[Benn98]

CN has been weeping and wailing over how their problems start and end with the demise of print, and every time their lies are inadvertently exposed. The rise and rise fo Hearst, for instance. And now we have cracks showing on the digital side. Wasn't their aim to migrate all the print mags to digital anyway? If things are as dire as it looks now, what's the point.

My ten cents? Sack management, relegate Anna only to Vogue and the MET, and start a massive EIC and CD overhaul. Tonchi, Jones, Barry, the lot.

 

[tigerrouge]

Print is a declining sector, there's no doubt, but that doesn't mean there can't be a reconsolidation of what titles can be made to work.

However, confidence is in short supply, and the demise of any big-name publication through mismanagement will diminish the future prospects of the sector as a whole, even for the healthier ones.

She's done marvels at Vogue, but Wintour does not carry any guarantee of the golden touch, only a reputation that might make for a compelling character in a movie, but real life ain't the movies, and most of these other magazines aren't Vogue.

 

[8eight]

Anyone heard rumours about London ES magazine launching in New York?

 

[magsaddict]

So Elle Italia is now a weekly magazine! In line with Grazia, Gioia and French Elle.

 

[lakomka]

Have you guys heard about the scandal around EIC of Vogue Ukraine Olga Sushko?
Apparently almost all of her editor’s letters are copycats from different journalist. For example, her recent letter is the exact copy of a letter by Shakhri Amirkhanova who was a HB Russia editor back in 2006.
Today CN released statement that Sushko is suspended.

 

[mikel]

Have you guys heard about the scandal around EIC of Vogue Ukraine Olga Sushko?
Apparently almost all of her editor’s letters are copycats from different journalist. For example, her recent letter is the exact copy of a letter by Shakhri Amirkhanova who was a HB Russia editor back in 2006.
Today CN released statement that Sushko is suspended.

Wow, that’s interesting!

 

[Benn98]

Have you guys heard about the scandal around EIC of Vogue Ukraine Olga Sushko?
Apparently almost all of her editor’s letters are copycats from different journalist. For example, her recent letter is the exact copy of a letter by Shakhri Amirkhanova who was a HB Russia editor back in 2006.
Today CN released statement that Sushko is suspended.

Yikes, she even issued an apology on her Facebook page! Meaning it's true. How will this affect Vogue Ukraine because the replacement will come in with new ideas. Crikey!

Vogue Ukraine’s Editor in Chief Olga Sushko Accused of Plagiarism
OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sushko confirmed that the charges were fair and apologized to the readers and the editorial staff

The issue was raised by Ukrainian Telegram fashion channel Kiyov Fashion Lavez that accused Sushko of plagiarism. In one of the channel’s posts it’s said that the Editor in Chief’s letter in the June issue of Vogue Ukraine is very similar to other letter, published in 2006 in Russian Harper’s Bazaar by journalist and designer Shakhri Amirkhanova.

‘The Editor in Chief of the main fashion magazine takes a 12-year-old magazine from her archive and simply writes someone else’s text,’ said in Kiyov Fashion Lavez post.

If one compares two texts, one can really notice that they are really very similar. At the same time, Olga Sushko’s text, suspected of plagiarism, is partially shortened and edited.

Kiyov Fashion Lavez community demands Sushko’s dismissal. ‘If you’re doing this kind of sh*t, maybe it’s time to climb down from that high horse and not walk with that smart quasi-intellectual face?’, the channel authors write.

Olga Sushko commented on the accusation: she stated that the text suspected of plagiarism was written by the author, whom she “knew for many years.”

‘This really is a very difficult situation. I want to apologize to the readers and the editorial team. There’s no sense to justify myself. I want to explain. Those who know me, who know how I work, understand that I write quite a lot. Due to the huge amount of current work and because I can simply be out for several days while writing editor’s letter that is a great responsibility and stress, I sometimes assign a freelance author to write it. I discussed the context with the author and considered him reliable, as I have known him for many years, and I trusted him. Shakhri Amirkhanova is a talented journalist and a great professional in her field. I apologize to her and regret that her name appeared in this unpleasant story.

That’s what happened. That’s my mistake. No one is safe from mistakes. We all make mistakes that we later regret. This is a life lesson. It is the opportunity to think and become wiser. In my case, it’s also an opportunity to understand that the editor’s word is not a duty page, but a way to have a direct and personal conversation with the reader.

I know one thing for sure. Vogue Ukraine is the coolest gloss magazine in the country and far beyond its borders. We have the coolest team that one wants to run to every morning to share ideas and have time to make a bunch of different projects. I really hope that my team will forgive and support me. Once again – forgive me, please.’ Sushko shares on her Facebook page.

T2conline.com

 

[dodencebt]

Have you guys heard about the scandal around EIC of Vogue Ukraine Olga Sushko?
Apparently almost all of her editor’s letters are copycats from different journalist. For example, her recent letter is the exact copy of a letter by Shakhri Amirkhanova who was a HB Russia editor back in 2006.
Today CN released statement that Sushko is suspended.

That is the most hilarious plagiarizing I've ever heard of!

 

[dodencebt]

Just read her Facebook post - she is basically blaming a freelance writer for stealing it and claims that she sometimes has no time to write her editor's letters? This is getting funnier by the minute.

 

[Benn98]

And I'm sorry but that excuse of 'I was too busy. Someone else wrote it' is BS. The editor's letter is probably as important as the cover. And when your team have gone through all the effort to create such unique editorials and stories, you owe it to them too to condense the issue in a witty way. That's your job!

Plagiarising an editor's letter is the equivalent of nicking a pen in Tesco. Petty!

 

[lakomka]

The worst thing about all of this is that it’s not only one letter, now users found the “originals” of all of her letters from 2018. She copycated not only HB editor, but journalists from Kommersant Style, Snob, etc. And even her good old articles she wrote for Russian newspaper Kommersant has roots somewhere else. Such a shame.

 

[Srdjan]

I actually do believe someone else has been writing if for her. Not the first time I hear about this kind of practice.

 

[caioherrero]

Where can I find these letters in english?

 

[russianelf]

Oh this tea is absolutely hilarious. Let's hope for change @ Vogue Ukraine.

 

[Deleted member 45369]

I can see why she would need to plagiarize just from reading her apology. I mean what kind of journalist uses the word “coolest” let alone twice? And how hard is it to write an Editor’s Letter regardless of how “busy” she might have been.

 

[Miss Dalloway]

I actually do believe someone else has been writing if for her. Not the first time I hear about this kind of practice.

Absolutely. It's a very common practice among top EIC, apart from Shulman, they all use ghost writers. Anna Wintour has been dodged by rumors in the industry for decades that she never writes her own letters.