SKATEISM magazine documents the diversity in skateboarding
Looking around, this seems to be a Copernican moment in the writing about and intellectualization of skateboarding. The sport/hobby/crime has recently received the academic conference treatment as well as the high-brow left… Read more »
The New Yorker editorial staff unionizes because, well, prestige don’t pay the rent
Yesterday morning, the editorial staff of the New Yorker officially joined their peers at a growing list of major publications—The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune,… Read more »
An ex-Vogue staffer allegedly stole over $50,000 from her boss
This week’s Baller Media Employee of the Week award goes to ex-Vogue staffer Yvonne Bannigan, who has reportedly stolen over $50,000 from her boss, superstar editor and former model Grace Coddington. Emily Saul writes at… Read more »
Q: Is this the end of Interview? A: Looks like it…
The art of the Q&A has been struck a blow by the announcement that Interview, the magazine known for pairing conversations between celebrities and icons with high-minded portrait photography, is folding.… Read more »
Hail, the absolutely unbiased and totally reasonable magazine devoted to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman
Propaganda is common in America. It’s as expected as neverending breadsticks at the Olive Garden, and equally gross. But overt propaganda from another country is more unusual, at least in modern… Read more »
National Geographic are so totally woke now that they’ve admitted to being racist in the past, also, hey, check out this new racist cover
Great news, everybody! National Geographic, the grande dame of doctor’s office reading since 1888, has acknowledged the obvious fact that much of their content over the past 130 years has, in fact,… Read more »
Cryptocurrencies might solve an ad revenue problem for Salon, and book publishers should take note
All of the computer hardware in the world combined can do about 1.5 x 10^21 FLOPS per second (translation: roughly a fuckton). It reflects a huge uptrend in our ability to perform… Read more »
Texas Monthly staffers leave one by one in the face of total mismanagement
The landmark, award-winning magazine of the great Lone Star State, Texas Monthly, is in the midst of an identity crisis, and we can most definitely blame the new owner: Texan… Read more »
Samhita Mukhopadhyay is stepping in as executive editor at Teen Vogue
One after another, the editors of some Big Deal magazines stepped down from their posts this fall. Graydon Carter from Vanity Fair, Robbie Myers from ELLE, Nancy Gibbs from TIME,… Read more »
The Paris Review speaks out regarding Lorin Stein’s resignation
Last week, Lorin Stein resigned from his editorial posts at FSG and the Paris Review. His departure was announced just before the board of the Review gathered to discuss the results… Read more »