Conde Nast Paid $8 Million To E-mail Scammer

With a Parade of fancy fraud cases centered on Wall Street so much in Vogue, here is Chatter about a swindle lacking Glamour but still possessing a certain amount of Allure.  A man not a New Yorker nicked Condé Nast, the magazine publishing empire full of Self-esteem, for $8 million simply by sending one email.


The Details are set out for all to see in a civil lawsuit filed extremely quietly last week in Manhattan federal court not by Condé Nast or its parent, Advance Publications, but by the local U.S. Attorney’s Office acting on their behalf. The named defendants are two sums of money–$7,870,530.02 and $47,137.91, to be exact–that until federal investigators intervened had been sitting in accounts at an obscure bank branch in Texas. Technically, the feds, alleging wire fraud, filed a forfeiture action, presumably as a step toward returning the stash to Condé Nast.


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Paris Hilton Becomes Interviewer For Interview Magazine

Paris Hilton sat down with Lil Waynein the April 2011 cover story for Interview Magazine where they discuss their favorite clubs, Wayne recalling his first rhyme, the possibility of collaborating together, and the one thing they do have in common—they both did time in jail. 


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Oprah Publishes Diary Excerpts In O Magazine

Oprah Winfrey is sharing her personal insights on some of her most important life events in the April edition of her magazine.


The 57-year-old will share five pages from her own hand-written diaries covering events such as her first date through to her experiences on the set of the film The Color Purple, according to reports from USA Today.

The extracts appear in the April edition of O, The Oprah Magazine and contains an extract from a 16-year-old Winfrey written in 1970.

The Mississippi-born TV star, then in her teens, wrote about her first date and explained the turmoil she felt deciding whether or not she should attend. 

‘Anthony asked me yesterday to go with him today. I answered yes. My only regret is my parents. Maybe I shouldn't have said yes but I wanted to, and my want overpowered theirs...I hated to go against my parents but Anthony is so perfect (almost). I couldn't say no.’

As well as providing extracts from her own personal journals Winfrey also provides some context to the extracts.

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Newsweek Editor Wants To Return To Journalism

The Daily Beast/Newsweek‘s editor-in-chief  Tina Brown appeared in a very quick segment of “The View” this morning.  


Brown first spoke about changes to Newsweek with the release of her inaugural issue. She has “re-charged it, re-designed it,” and made the news magazine much more “image-driven.”


Whoopi Goldberg wanted to know what was wrong with Newsweek before Brown swooped in to save it. Brown said it “needed more reporting” and had very much become an opinion magazine.” Most important was “to get…journalism back to where it should be.” And “visually, it had lost, in a sense, its connection to pictures.”


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Fortune Magazine Regards Apple as its ‘Most Admired’ Company

For the fourth year in a row, Fortune Magazine has named Apple as the world’s “Most Admired” company.  To determine the winners, Fortune Magazine polled businesspeople and asked them to vote for the company they admired most across any industry.

Apple edged out tech giant Google and Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway to once again land the top spot on this year’s list. The Cupertino based company has been racking up several awards over the past few years.  Just last year, Steve Jobs was named the ‘Smartest CEO’ by Fortune and the Financial Times named him their ‘Person of the Year’ for 2010.

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Newsweek Magazine To Sport New Look

Media buyers who have gotten a look at Tina Brown's new prototype for Newsweek say it will be a sweeping overhaul.

George Clooney was on the cover of the prototype that one media buyer saw. Even though it was taking a look at Clooney's political leanings, it made the ad executive think that Brown was pitching the celebrity coverage that she embraced when she was running Vanity Fair in the '90s at Condé Nast.

The media exec was nevertheless impressed. "The bar was set pretty low by Jon Meacham and Tom Ascheim," said the media executive. "I think this is a big step in the right direction."

The magazine is also going to move to heavier stock on the cover and inside, "not the tissue paper that they are putting it out on now," said the media person.

"I think the Newsweek name has authority and credibility with readers still," said the media buyer.

Also in the cards, some sources say, Newsweek is mulling a switch in delivery time and will emulate Time and switch to Friday delivery. Time switched three years to Fridays while Newsweek continued with its Monday morning arrival time.

A spokesman insisted that Newsweek Magazine will not change delivery date to newsstands.

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Choose The Next Cover of Rolling Stone!

The choice is yours!

Rolling Stone is allowing readers to vote on which one of 16 unsigned bands should grace an upcoming cover of the legendary music magazine.

In Rolling Stone's first-ever "Do You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star?" contest, the magazine is soliciting readers' votes -- online at RollingStone.com -- to whittle a group of 16 bands down to one, who will appear on the magazine's August 18 cover.

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Glee Star Angers Parents Groups With Cosmo Mag Cover

Last year she took heat for posing in her panties in GQ, and now Lea Michele is drawing criticism for another racy photo shoot.

On the March cover of Cosmopolitan, the Glee star, 24, shows skin in a black top with a neckline plunging nearly to her belly button. And parents, whose children are fans of the Fox hit about a high school vocal club, are none to pleased with the pics, according to FoxNews.com.

"I think Lea Michele is sending the wrong message. She plays such a 'good girl' on Glee and a lot of kids look up to her persona. Then she poses very provocatively on two magazine covers which makes my almost-13-year-old son very confused and offended," New York mom Kim Trefcer told the conservative news site. "I find it frustrating as a parent who is trying to teach right from wrong to their kids and then you have things like this happen which is showing middle schoolers things like sex sells and all that goes along with that."

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Hearst To Buy 100 Magazine Titles From Lagardère

Hearst Corporation, the American magazine giant that publishes Cosmopolitan, Esquire and Better Homes and Gardens, said Monday that it had agreed to acquire more than 100 magazines from the French publisher Lagardère in a deal that would make Hearst the second-largest domestic magazine company and greatly expand its international footprint.

Both companies stand to benefit from the deal, which is expected to close in the second half of the year. For Lagardère, which has been seeking to shed its sprawling international operations and focus more on domestic publishing and sports marketing, the deal demonstrates responsiveness to shareholder pressure.

For Hearst, which has lagged behind Condé Nast in the lucrative fashion and beauty advertising category, the deal offers considerable scale in that market. Hearst will acquire the American edition of Elle, which competes head to head with Condé Nast’s Vogue for ads.


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Grocery Store Literally Shields Children from Elton John US Mag Cover

According to a grocery store in the South you may be risking damage just by gazing on Elton John.

A resident of Mountain Home, Arkansas noticed a "family shield" at her local Harp's grocery store. Specifically, it was censoring shoppers from seeing the cover of US Weekly Elton John and partner David Furnish holding Zachary, their new infant son.

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Magazine Ad Revenues Increasing After 3-Year Slump

With the rise of social media and the ease of availability to find the dirt on your favourite areas of interest that naturally follows suit, it is only human for us to assume that the sales of physical magazines will dwindle in the year of 2010. However, a recent report by Reuters published that they enjoyed an increase in advertising revenue for the first time in three years; mostly due to the automobile industry.

According to data from rate cards compiled by the Publishers Information Bureau, advertising revenue grew by 3 percent in 2010 to about $20 billion, where $1 billion is raked up by People Magazine. On the other hand, food magazine, Food Network, grew the most with a 174 percent jump in ad revenue in 2010 as compared to the previous year.

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Lady Gaga Most Celebrated Cover Girl of 2010

According to WWD:

“According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Gaga was the runaway hit at the newsstand in 2010 for monthly and biweekly magazines. The results don’t extend all the way through the end of the year, and they do vary (figures for Condé Nasttitles go through November; Hearst titles through October). But it’s safe to say no celebrity will catch up in time to match Gaga’s strong and steady performance throughout the year.”

Rihanna placed second the stands. Her topless January issue of GQ was the second best selling issue while Seventeen enjoyed a top seller featuring the “Only Girl” singer.

Blake Lively placed higher than anticipated. The “Gossip Girl” enjoyed the spoils of being Allure’s best seller. However, she barely made a blip on Vogue sales. Anna Wintour dubbed her one of the best dressed, but she failed to drive sales. 


Esquire also found Blake to be a bust. Seems she best stick with her female fans.


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