News Briefs: what you didn't catch this week

Week of Aug. 20-25

Jane staffers don't see the similarities to Glamour
This was pretty much my reaction when they replaced my Premiere sub with USweekly.

Lucky thought we didn't notice its gradual redesign
Ever-changing slogan soon to be "The magazine about Shopping and Style and Socialites and Sex and Anything Else the Focus Group Comes Up With"

Hearst installs clear escalators
Cosmopolitan staff is clearly upset seeing they recommend to not wear undergarments.

Intern asked to submit 'reader comments' online
Only the New York Times could feign shock about such a common ethical misstep.

Details takes the nagging approach for Cover Lines
What's worse, feeling shamed by Details or insecure by Men's Health ?

Boring Circulation News
But I post it anyway, so go ahead and take your medicine.

Vogue's biggest issue EVER due to online sales...

...as Marie Claire is behind her like the ugly high school girl in Target clothes trying to fit in.

Another article on the struggling magazine that is Portfolio
I don't know what's funnier, the speed at which people condemned this mag after its launch, or the idea they thought a vogue--esque Business Weekly would succeed in the first place.

Long esteemed/ignored AJR pub in trouble
In response, equally esteemed/ignored pub CJR says "HA ha"

Nobody is reading books
Would this be a good time to reintroduce the serial novel to magazines?

Lack of cover stories on Women
But, but they didn't count the anorexic models pressuring us to become brain-dead sex objects for men!