Silicon Valley Insider charts newspapers and magazines with the wealthiest readerships. Wall Street Journal readers are the most cashed-up, while The Atlantic, The Economist and Architectural Digest readers also break the 100k mark.
Magazines 
Newsweek go rogue with Palin cover
Newsweek has caused a big stir this week by running a cover photo of Sarah Palin — clad in rather tight running gear — taken from a Runner’s World photoshoot. Palin herself has labelled the move “sexist”. Is it fair to use editorial photos out of context?
The crash of the Brad and Britney economy
The price paid for paparazzi photos by US glossies has plummeting by 31%, according to a survey by The Daily Beast. Has the recession caused the celebrity media bubble to burst, or have celebrities just become more boring?
Is Newsweek censoring its letters page?
After running a cover feature on Al Gore, 74% of the letters Newsweek received in response were negative. Yet, according to NewsBusters, the magazine ran only positive letters in its following edition. And it’s not the first time.
National newspapers fall off a cliff, bury news
Australian newspaper buyers have punished the national papers, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian in the latest audit period, but basically spared the rod on their state-based competitors.
Which magazines are Australians reading?
Girl With a Satchel combs through Roy Morgan’s latest readership figures to see which glossies Australians are — and aren’t — reading. Better Homes and Gardens continues to boom, while Cleo has taken a caning.
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The axe is about to fall at Newsweek
Politico has its hands on an internal memo from Newsweek editor, Jon Meacham, informing staff that about a dozen job are about to be cut.
The New Yorker: too big to fail?
While other magazines are shrinking and downsizing, The New Yorker has remained entirely intact, even despite its publisher’s financial woes. What’s the magazine’s secret? It may have something to do with its 60-plus team of staff writers…
Browse Google’s online magazine stand
Google has launched a virtual magazine stand to make browsing its free online archive of magazines far simpler. Revisit all your favourite back issues of , Timber Frame Homes, and of course Scouting magazine (plus some good ones, too)
Steve Jobs named CEO of the Decade
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.
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.
