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• MAGAZINES SEE POOR CIRCULATION

  August 6, 2008 - THE magazine industry is bracing for one of its worst beatings in years on the newsstand front as the Audit Bureau of Circulations prepares to release on Monday its full report on the first half of...more >

• BATTLE OF THE CELEB BABIES

  August 1, 2008 - IN the battle over which magazine will be the first to feature the newest additions to the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt brood, the celebrity glossies are double-teaming the stars. People, the most...more >

• LOSING A SMALL FORTUNE

  July 30, 2008 - ANOTHER round of cuts has hit Fortune, this time at its little sister title, Fortune Small Business. Known by the initials FSB, the magazine is axing 14 of its 17 editorial staffers, including...more >

• BARACK OBAMA SELLS OUT

  July 25, 2008 - THE controversial July 21 cover of The New Yorker portraying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a Muslim has been a virtual sellout on newsstands. In fact, the demand has completely...more >

• IT'S NOT GOING TO BE US

  July 23, 2008 - IT'S shaping up to be the summer of no deals in the world of magazines. The biggest deal not getting done is Us Weekly, as Wenner Media owner Jann Wenner, who was said to be quietly testing the...more >

• FRENCH DISCONNECTION

  July 18, 2008 - THE year of the French is over for "Bid 'Em Up" Bruce Wasserstein. John French, head of Wasserstein's sprawling trade magazine empire Penton Media, is stepping down. French...more >

• INSIDE THE COVER STORY

  July 16, 2008 - AS it turns out, it might not be just the Obama campaign that's bent out of shape over this week's cover of The New Yorker. Rumors have swirled inside Condé Nast that advertisers also...more >

• SEEMS THERE'S LESS OF US

  July 11, 2008 - NOW we have an inkling as to why 62-year-old Jann Wenner might want to take the money and run when it comes to Us Weekly. In a just-released industry report, it appears that the magazine, which has...more >

• A LITTLE TRAVELING MUSIC

  July 9, 2008 - EDITORS are taking the hits in the latest rounds of restructuring that are shaking the magazine world. Friends said that Erik Torkells, editor at Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, has resigned...more >

• THREE-HEADED MONSTER

  July 2, 2008 - NOW we're in for it. Condé Nast Publications, which last year managed to soar above the general industry malaise by posting a 5.41 percent jump in ad pages, is slumping in the first half of...more >