• Glamour Fashions Mailers to Hype Changes
    Glamour concludes a series of five postcard mailings this week to commemorate recent advertising, circulation and editorial milestones for the beauty and fashion magazine.
  • Gay Channel Coming Out with Cher, Cumming Projects
    Cher, Scottish actor Alan Cumming and comedian Kathy Griffin are among the stars who have come aboard the new gay-themed digital cable channel, Logo, which is scheduled to launch in as many as 15 million homes in February.
  • The U.S. Army Needs A Few Good Ideas
    The U.S. Army needs a few good ideas. Its advertising account, worth about $200 million, is in review, and an online request for proposals briefs agencies that: "The Army is busier than ever and at war." Therein lies the problem. For five years, the army has used the tagline "Army of One," but now observers say the slogan and the current TV campaign that pushes job skills and war gadgetry is out of touch with the reality of war and should be scrapped.
  • Hollywood Aims to Conquer Comic-Book Fans
    Sometimes the archenemy of a superhero movie is the super-fan, the kind with the power to create a firestorm of negative buzz on the Internet over a perceived injustice to a beloved character. Now Hollywood has discovered a place where it can try to leap that fan skepticism in a single bound: Comic-Con International.
  • 'Hoy' to Readers: We'll Get to Bottom of Scandal
    In an open letter to readers published Friday, Hoy's interim publisher, Digby Solomon Díez, promised that the circulation fraud scandal at the Tribune Co. Spanish-language daily "will never happen again under any circumstances."
  • Celeb Mags Still Battling
    Did Justin cheat on Cameron? Is Mary-Kate leaving rehab too early? Did Jennifer Aniston actually get plastic surgery? Four big mags chasing these stories keep the celebrity magazine war going full-tilt, but this week Star and US jump ahead of the pack.
  • Karmazin's Viacom Exit Is Worth $35.4 Million
    The highly unusual employment contract fashioned by Mel Karmazin to protect himself against his meddlesome boss paid off handsomely: The former president of Viacom Inc. collected $35.4 million in bonuses and salary after quitting in June.
  • TiVo's Plans Lead to Fight on Copyrights
    With 1.6 million subscribers, TiVo is the leading provider of the digital recorders that are revolutionizing television viewing. In addition to copying shows for later viewing, consumers can pause live shows, skip commercials and use other features to control the TV experience.
  • New boss puts heat on CNBC
    NBC Universal TV boss Jeff Zucker is rattling the troops at ratings-challenged CNBC.
  • Yet Again, a Brand Name Loses Its Magic
    To most Americans, AT&T used to mean phone service, just as Xerox once meant copying and the Big Three - General Motors, Ford and Chrysler - once stood for cars.
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