You must’ve read about the unemployed twins from Ohio in this weekend’s New York Times by now. If not, you can here, here or here.

Anyway, this one’s for them.

On Wednesday, October 28th, Ladies Lotto, a networking group for professional women, is hosting a panel called Behind the Beast.

A panel of experts, including the Editorial Director of Refinery29, the Fashion Editor of Self, a publicist, a trend forecaster and even an MTV VJ will talk about how to break into the industry, despite the tough economic times, and what to do once you’re in.

The moderated discussion, and the cocktails after, will give you a chance to ask questions of a pretty diverse group of women and gain some insight into both magazines and blogs, as well as the PR side of the industry.

The event’s at the Tribeca Grand; it’s $15 and you have until October 27 to RSVP to rsvpnyc@ladieslotto.com.

Looks like the Model.Live series proved very successful for Conde Nast.

They’ve just announced an ongoing partnership with video publishing platform Brightcove, for at least five of their magazine sites (Wired, Portfolio, Self, Parade and Glamour).

Translation? You’re about to see a lot more video content on Conde sites, powered by lots of advertising from companies that are leery of sinking their dollars into print pages, especially since even Conde magazines haven’t been doing very well.

It’s no secret that Conde’s kind of been behind in terms of getting their websites up to 2008 standards (though they’ve recently made strides by hiring a bevy of blogging babes over at Glamour) so this definitely signals a shift in their approach to survival.

So does this move from one of the biggest media companies in the world signal a shift in how the magazine industry itself needs to operate to survive (sans network television)? Guess we’ll see.