News Briefs: Please, we all wear lipgloss now...

Luxury mag race heats up
...should be interesting to watch as the economy worsens.

Time Warner fires people on cue
...can we start calling this an annual occurrence?

Organic Style moves online
...sad, but trendy

How Bazaar...
...Hillary poses for fashion magazine.

People gets the Death Scoop
...as does Entertainment Weekly. Let no one say late deadlines always hurt you in a tabloid war.

Largest Health Launch in History
...it's distributed in newspapers, so it's reach remains minuscule.

Hearst is teaming up with Food Network
...just what we need, more Rachel Rays in the magazine world.

How the 'recession' affects fashion magazines
...the rich stay rich and poor use more lip gloss.

This last article about the recession amused me. First, the 'lipstick' rule that women buy more during poor economic times hasn't held up...but then again there really isn't a recession, so does the rule still apply? I love it how the desginer brands don't even care about the economic problems, whereas the Wal-Marts and Sears of the world are the ones backing out of ad pages.

One good note for my company, from Carlos Lamadrid, vice president and publisher of Woman's Day:

People will still eat no matter what. We're not talking gourmet, we're talking Kraft and Quaker.