Fortune has named Apple honcho Steve Jobs as its CEO of the Decade, and has gone all-out in its celebration of all-thing-Steve. Here’s the interactive timeline, celebrity tributes and the obligatory photo gallery.
Magazines 
Stephen King writes poetry? For Playboy?!
Curiously, sci-fi/horror Author Stephen King has turned his hand to writing poetry. Even more curiously, his literary medium of choice to share his rhyme doggerel with the world? Playboy magazine. Read his effort, The Bone Church, here.
Why Vogue is still in vogue
Despite the global media downturn, glossy fashion mags like Vogue are still doing relatively well. How have they avoided the fate of their less glamorous counterparts? By providing a “cheap treat” in lean economic times, says Roy Greenslade.
iTunes for print? Selling the story instead of the magazine
Online aggregator Maggwire.com is planning “to do for magazines what iTunes did for music”, by selling “premium” magazine articles for a few bucks online. It may save the companies, but could it kill off the printed versions in the process?
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The Time Inc. carnage begins
Forced to cut $100m in expenditure, publisher Time has begun trimming the fat, announcing layoffs at Sports Illustrated and the closure of Fortune Small Business. And this is just round one: 280 layoffs are expected in total.
Why e-Readers are not the future of magazines
The Kindle and its ilk may be taking the newspaper and book worlds by storm, but they’re not going to revolutionise the way we read magazines anytime soon: the screens, formatting and lack of interactivity just aren’t up to the task.
media death watch The last days of Gourmet
The former associate art director of the now-defunct Gourmet magazine has put up this online photo gallery to document the final days in the publication’s now-empty offices. How thoroughly depressing.
How to save business media: more sex and cow farts
Business magazines are going bust and Stanley Bing knows why: they’re full of boring rich farts. Time for less “what old guys are thinking” and more “what young people are doing”.
50 years of TIME in Australia (and a few less-important islands, too)
TIME magazine is celebrating 50 years of publication in Australia (well, the “South Pacific”, but it pretty much ignores everyone else), including a tribute to its pick of most influential Aussies of the last five decades: Robert Menzies, Germaine Greer, Victor Chang, Eddie Mabo, and Tim Flannery.
Rock ‘n Roll Rudd
Kevin Rudd’s globular mug is headed for the pages of Rolling Stone magazine. Because nothing says “rock” like a man who lists Handel’s Messiah as his favourite tune.
Ad Age’s A-list Media Awards
Advertising Age has announced its A-List Award winners for 2009, with Women’s Health named Magazine of the Year, The Atlantic’s James Bennet named editor of the year, and a few other hat-tips to media innovation this year.
Rolling Stone’s Obama named Cover of the Year
A Rolling Stone cover featuring Barack Obama has been named Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors, beating out Bernie Madoff as The Joker and perhaps the most delicious looking cover ever for the honours.
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Will Wired survive the Condé carnage?
Gawker assesses the shaky future of tech-bible Wired. Faced with sinking ad sales, major staff cuts and losses, and at the mercy of an ailing publisher, how much longer can the mag and its website cling on?
Food fight: Rachael Ray carves a chunk out of Martha Stewart
Mumsy celebrity chef (and convicted felon!) Martha Stewart is the queen bee of the cooking world. But bubbly up-and-comer Rachael “Yummers!” Ray’s Everyday with Rachel Ray magazine is closing in on ad figures for Stewart’s rag, Martha Stewart Living.
Are crappy magazine cover gifts getting out of control?
Covermounts — the dodgy free gifts magazines attach to the front of their covers to entice you to buy — are a sure-fire way for publishers to lift sales. But are mags now relying on lazy freebies to attract readers instead of quality editorial? And just how many pedometers does one person need?
French Vogue does blackface
What, is everybody doing it now? The latest edition of French Vogue magazine features supermodel Lara Stone in blackface. Stay tuned for next month’s spread, featuring a man in a duck suit and a guest appearance by Farnsy.
Marge Simpson: Playboy bunny
The next cover-star of Playboy magazine will be… Marge Simpson? Yup, the cover will feature TV’s favourite cartoon mum in the buff. Kiss your childhood goodbye.
Zombie Gourmet magazine: keeping the brand alive
Gourmet magazine is no longer, another title butchered as broke publishers are forced to trim the fat. But that doesn’t mean the brand has to die. Fast Company has a few suggestions on keeping the name alive.
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Cost-cutting carnage at Condé Nast: four mags to fold
Publisher Condé Nast (GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair) is trimming the fat of bloated magazine empire, and the first victims are Cookie, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and, most notably, foodie bible Gourmet. The latter’s closure has been labeled “an American tragedy”. But is this really the end?
Creating an iTunes for print
Magazine publishers are worried Apple’s upcoming tablet computer could do to their industry what the iPod did to music, taking away their control over the product and cutting into their profits. Can the industry band together to create a united “shop-front” as its content goes digital?
Conde Nast tightens its (hand-made, designer, anaconda leather) belt
Publisher Conde Nast (GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair) is well known for its culture of extravagance and indulgence — but even Anna Wintour isn’t immune to the media downturn, and the time has come to cut some costs. Can Conde keep the class without chauffeurs and caviar?
The most controversial magazine covers of all time
They’re the cover stories that made cover stories: some of history’s most shocking and scandalous magazine covers, from Hitler as TIME’s Man of the Year to Ellen’s “coming out” to Michelle Geller’s “zombie arm” in Seventeen.
The magazine getting high on the economy’s lows
The global financial slump has been a disaster for most magazines, but for the mellow folk at High Times, it’s been a real trip, with more people toking up to get through the tough economic times. “Weed is recession proof,” says editor Bobby Black.
New Yorker, the fashion edition
With New York fashion week happening RIGHT NOW, Lee Tran Lam digests the New Yorker’s annual style issue. Particularly notable, a “sassifying” interior decorator with a penchant for “muchness”.
How Anna Wintour reclaimed her crown
Notorious ice queen Vogue editor Anna Wintour has taken all the bad press about her magazine and herself and turned it on its head with the successful gamble that was documentary The September Issue, says Tina Brown.
