Magazines

I guess, Tumblr fans can calm down and realize New York Times’ associate magazine has joined Tumblr, covering the latest style and culture. I don’t think Tumblr is a journalistic platform. It’s perfect for blogging on the arts and being tightly-knit with the community, or introducing new songs from The Beastie Boys.

I guess, Tumblr fans can calm down and realize New York Times’ associate magazine has joined Tumblr, covering the latest style and culture. I don’t think Tumblr is a journalistic platform. It’s perfect for blogging on the arts and being tightly-knit with the community, or introducing new songs from The Beastie Boys.

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Is cyberbullying Much Ado About Nothing? Weekly Reader, The Ophelia Project, and Facebook don’t think so.

TheAtlantic.com is gearing up its 2012 campaign coverage, announcing new responsibilities for Josh Green and Conor Friedersdorf, as well as the addition of former Lake Forest (Calif.) Patch editor Spencer Kornhaber.

What’s black-and-white and green all over? The March/April 2011 Green Issue of women’s digital luxury magazine VIVmag.

The issue, timed to coincide with Women’s History Month in March and the 70th anniversary of Earth Day in April, is currently available for the iPad, iPhone, Mac, and PC, and it features an Old Hollywood-style black-and-white cover featuring Hot in Cleveland actress Jane Leeves, a “Greener Life” subscription contest, and environmentally themed content including articles on conscious choices for cleaning and greening the world; spring wardrobes and home-fashion favorites made of natural fibers; Earth-friendly fitness choices; and reducing carbon footprint with greener cuisine, as well as a book-review section highlighting titles about food and the environment.

The release of the issue was delayed by technical issues with the Zinio platform.

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New York magazine parent New York Media will turn its Vulture into a flock, announcing the creation of the Vulture Network, a vertical content network anchored by its entertainment and culture site.

Vulture was expanded from a blog to a full-fledged entertainment site in September.

Other sites on the Vulture Network will include SEAT42F, artcritical, Brokelyn, MRQE, and TheFutonCritic.com.

Target, AMC (The Killing), HBO (Pee-wee Herman), The Lion King, and Samuel Goldwyn (Electra Luxx) have signed on as advertisers for the Vulture Network.

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TIME.com Monday launched the first-ever blog edited and curated by its photography department, LightBox, aimed at showcasing imagery from TIME and enabling user commentary and sharing via social media.

LightBox is divided into seven sections: Profile, in-depth interviews with photographers and filmmakers; Photo Essay, photo stories and multimedia from TIME contributors; The Back Story, first-person accounts from subjects and photographers; In Progress, new projects from around the world; Out There, exhibits, books, and innovative uses of images; Man on the Wire, the latest news photos chosen by TIME‘s photo editors; and Toolbox, featuring new technologies and gadgets.

Contributors will include director of photography Kira Pollack; deputy photo editor Paul Moakley; international picture editor Patrick Witty; and TIME contract photographers Marco Grob, Peter Hapak, Dominic Nahr, Shaul Schwarz, Yuri Kozyrev, James Nachtwey, and Chris Morris.

Entertainment-based social network GetGlue reached its first publishing partnership, signing on with Entertainment Weekly to team up on a rewards program that offers EW.com readers who check in to items on the site’s Must List using GetGlue to obtain virtual and physical stickers, as well as access to exclusive curated content from the magazine’s editors.

In addition to GetGlue’s first foray into publishing, the initiative marks Entertainment Weekly‘s first social check-in integration.

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Apple was admired even before Wednesday’s introduction of its iPad 2 tablet , as the company finished atop Fortune‘s list of the World’s 50 Most Admired Companies for the fourth consecutive year.

Other companies from the tech and media sectors that made the list were: Google (No. 2), Amazon.com (7), Microsoft (9), IBM (12), Disney (14), Cisco Systems (28), Intel (32), Samsung Electronics (38), Netflix (40), eBay (45), Sony (46), and Oracle (48).

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The hiring binge continues at The Newsweek/Daily Beast Co. LLC, as ABC News World News with Diane Sawyer producer Susie Banikarim was named executive producer of video for The Daily Beast and Newsweek.

REVISED at 12:20 p.m. ET: She will join a familiar face at NewsBeast: vice president Kathy O’Hearn, who came on board in December after serving as executive producer of CNN’s Campbell Brown and Amanpour. Prior to CNN, O’Hearn was the executive producer of ABC News’ This Week.

Variety confirmed news from Monday, originally reported by TheWrap.com, that it will launch a blog outside of its paywall and offered details about the new product, Showblitz, in an email:

Dear friend of Variety,

Variety is excited to present Showblitz, a breaking news blog designed with you in mind.

Showblitz is an up-to-the-minute, easy-to-digest showcase for Variety‘s best scoops and important entertainment news stories.

We realize that our paywall has discouraged sites like yours from linking to our content in the past, even when Variety breaks big showbiz stories. Showblitz gives you a way to let your users have access to an important source of news — and it also gives you an easy way to monitor a feed of Variety‘s exclusives and breaking news.

This is not a strategy shift for Variety.com. The paywall lives on. Each entry on Showblitz — short, timely, punchy and art-centric — will include links to the full stories within Variety.com. In fact, what better way to entice eventual new subscribers than great, compelling, timely, and newsy content they can’t get anywhere else?

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