Perhaps last year’s biggest shocker within the fashion media circle was Newsweek‘s sudden layoff of Robin Givhan.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion journalist, best known in recent years for her analysis of the wardrobes of political figures (especially of the FLOTUS), joined Newsweek from the Washington Post in 2010.
So, has she made a return to the DC paper? Sort of!
As Newsweek prepares to shutter its print magazine for good to become a purely digital publication, several staffers won’t make it through the transition. We were surprised to learn that Pulitzer prize-winning fashion journalist Robin Givhan will be among those laid off according to Daily Intel.
With 5.5 million monthly uniques and five million followers on social media, Glamour.com is the largest web property out of Conde Nast’s women’s magazines. But Glamour editor-in-chief Cindi Leive, along with Digital Managing Director Mike Hofman are looking to grow even bigger.
“These are numbers we’ve achieved with our old site, which is fine, but certainly not the kind of site that was going to take us out of the magazine companion site category and really make us a player,” Leive told us.
Despite the fact that ad pages in print mags still draw more money for publishers, Leive understand the importance of digital (something that can’t be said for all print editors).
In a rare interview, Anna Wintour talks about why should never ever expect her to write a book, what she looks for in a new hire, and how Michelle Obama has “changed the way American women see fashion.”
Several Cosmopolitan staffers–now former Cosmopolitan staffers–are having a pretty terrible week, as new EIC Joanna Coles continues to make changes to the masthead.
When we caught up with Coles during Fashion Week, shortly after she’d been hired, she told us, “I want to go there and meet everybody, and then get a sense of what everybody is thinking.” She must not have been too thrilled with what some of them were thinking, as at least eight staffers were let go on Wednesday.
On the heels of news that Harper’s Bazaar‘s Kristina O’Neill would be replacing Deborah Needleman at WSJ–and that T Magazine’s Sally Singer was headed to Vogue (after Needleman replaced her), comes reports of even more editorial shakeups. Seriously, do they ever stop?
A Hearst spokesperson has confirmed that both Kate Davidson Hudson and Stefania Allen, Elle‘s Accessories Director and Senior Accessories Editor, respectively, have left the company.
Sally Singer is going back to her old stomping grounds: Vogue.
After leaving her post as editor in chief at T Magazine over a month ago, Singer has just been named creative director of digital at Vogue–and she starts work in just a week and a half, WWD is reporting.
Yesterday, we reported that Kristina O’Neill, formerly of Harper’s Bazaar, would be replacing Deborah Needleman as editor-in-chief of WSJ. And today, WWD has a little more dirt on the subject–namely, who was passed over for the coveted position.
Ever since Deborah Needleman left WSJ for T we’ve been wondering who would replace her at her former post. And now we have our answer: Kristina O’Neill, formerly of Harper’s Bazaar, has been named editor-in-chief of WSJ.
Yesterday, WWD reported that Anamaria Wilson, the fashion features director at Harper’s Bazaar, would be leaving her post at the magazine to join Michael Kors as senior vice president of global corporate communications.
Wilson is something of a veteran in the publishing industry, building her career over the past twenty years at such prestigious titles as WWD, W Magazine and, of course, Harper’s Bazaar, so her recent move to Kors is somewhat unexpected–and it’s definitely a change of pace. But Wilson isn’t alone: Several big-name editors have recently made the jump from editorial to brands. NYLON‘s Faran Krentcil is now at Clarins and Shopbop; New York Mag’s Jenny Kang is now at J. Crew; GQ‘s Sean Hotchkiss is also now at J.Crew; Glamour‘s Jenny Feldman is now at Amazon; Lucky‘s Jen Ford is now at Kate Spade; Marie Claire‘s Taylor Tomasi Hill is now at Moda Operandi; and the list goes on.
So what’s going on? Why are all these editorial-minded individuals leaving publishing to work for retail brands?
At Lucky magazine’s Fashion and Beauty Blog Conference, bloggers came from all over the country to network and listen in on insight from speakers like the Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren, Rachel Zoe, The Man Repeller’s Leandra Medine, Barneys’ Simon Doonan and reality TV star-turned-fashion designer/blogger Lauren Conrad. Naturally, awesomeness ensued. Here’s the four most important things I learned throughout the course of the day.
Well, that was fast.
Just hours after announcing that current EIC Joanna Coles would be moving to Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire has named her replacement.
Anne Fulenwider, who has been editor-in-chief of Brides since October 2011, will take the reins at Marie Claire. This is not the first time Fulenwider has worked with the Marie Claire team; prior to her role as EIC of Brides, Fulenwider worked for two years under Coles as executive editor of the mag.
