Never even heard of it......
Posted on 07/10/2007 5:24:53 AM PDT by abb
It turns out, Jane, the magazine, could not survive without Jane, the person.
Condé Nast Publications yesterday said it was closing the magazine aimed at 20-something women. The August issue that hits in late July will be its last, ending a 10-year run.
The move comes nearly two years after launch editor Jane Pratt resigned under pressure from the magazine that bore her name. She was replaced by former Elle Girl editor Brandon Holley.
As part of the shutdown of Jane, Holley and Publisher Carlos Lamadrid are leaving Condé Nast. The 60 staffers on the magazine were given until Wednesday to leave.
"I don't feel vindicated," Pratt said in an interview. "I feel sad about it."
She had cut ties with the magazine when she resigned in July 2005, but was still listed as a founding editor. "I can't say I'm surprised, but I had hoped the numbers would improve and it would stick around."
Holley could not be reached for comment.
Condé Nast Editorial Director Tom Wallace and CEO Charles Townsend summoned Holley and Lamadrid from their Third Avenue office where Jane was based to Condé's headquarters at 4 Times Square to break the news to them personally yesterday morning.
After a dismal 2006, in which ad pages plunged 20.9 percent to 592.78, according to Publishers Information Bureau, Jane seemed to be showing some ability to bound back this year on the ad front.
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Why is it good news? I’ve never heard of the magazine. Was it pretty bad?
http://www.condenet.com/mags/jane/
Just about all New York based magazines aren’t fit to line bird cages, imo. Check out the rest of the Conde Nast publications.
A lot of my college students read it. Standard GRRRRL POWER! “Cosmo” fare for the twentysomethings. Better sex technique, how to give a mind-blowing BJ, birth control adverts, feel-good-about-your-abortion, feminist rants and where to buy the latest slutwear. NOW and NARAL shrills were frequent contributors.
YIKES!!!!!
Wow.
Never even heard of it......
Basically, thats it. What a great description!
10 years of money-losing, liberal, lesbian-ish swill...
Lemme guess, this was another feminist propoganda rag targeting young girls to hate men?
never heard of it either. was it anything like beckett?
I remember my mother reading those mags way back. Have they truly become what you describe?
Our DIL used to subscribe to some of this trash.
Then came our grand daughter, who started looking at magazines at the age of 6 months. She loved to sit on laps and look at the pictures of any magazine.
That ended the subscriptions of that trash.
Unfortunately, yes. It used to be recipes and household hints, and family-based articles. The las tissue of Redbook I picked up (over five years ago) had a several-pages-long rant from ROsie O’Pignuts or Katie Couric.
I shudder to think how many young girls grew up influenced by that crap.
I remember way back in the days when Conde Nast’s flagship magazine was Analog Science Fiction magazine, under the editorship of the great John W. Campbell, Jr.
I met Campbell and had lunch with him one day in New York.
Eheu, tempus fugate!
Saves paper and space in landfills. We are ecologically concerned freepers on the Dinosaur MSM watch.
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