Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Vanity Fair has managed to not only survive but thrive in the post-print era. Now the issue is: How will it do in the post-Graydon Carter one? After leading the Vanity Fair franchise for a quarter of a century, Carter will be stepping down in December. His future plans are uncertain or, at least, he is playing his cards close to his vest.    Here are the details in the New York Post. Carter knew to zero in on the memes of our turbulent times.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

  Like, how do glossies serve the common good of news, gossip, and special-interest agendas? It's been a situation of competing sources.    As the world awaits the impacts of the McKinsey and Company study of Conde Nast, rumors  have it that no titles will be touched and that five are going to be finito.  

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AUGUST 1, 2014

And, well, Monica Lewinsky essentially did that - die to be able to have her byline in that glossy. It's the glam opportunity to die for: Being published in Vanity Fair. Here is her piece. Lewinsky died many times - emotionally, spiritually and in terms of branding.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JULY 20, 2019

Their internal departments broke up large topics into several narrow subjects and covered each separately in their newsletters and glossy magazines.  Mergers and acquisitions create redundancies. And redundancies result in layoffs. So, editorial types should be very nervous - yet again.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 17, 2013

So, the feud between Gwyneth Paltrow and Graydon Carter is lucky event for glossy VANITY FAIR. Feuds are good for business.  They get attention, including from the media.  People get to take sides. And the parties involved can enhance their personal branding.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

AUGUST 17, 2019

That glossy had already covered the couple a number of times. They were once a power couple.    Ivy league educated. Sophisticated. She a tech venture capitalist, then oversaw a social media platform, and next an advocate for leveling the playing field for women in Silicon Valley.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JUNE 12, 2016

Its monthly glossy still sticks with the elite. Yes, influential Vanity Fair has covered the tragedy of the Florida Massacre. That's breaking news and its writer Benjamin Landy jumped right in. Here is his take. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Its outgoing editor in chief Graydon Carter was known for the glossy print edition of the magazine and the gala Oscar Party (which some perceived as excessive gilded age). That glossy is not alone.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Conde Nast: Can the once glossy print empire survive digital everything? All we see is scrambling. The latest frantic move, following the axing of print Glamour, is the combining of the U.S. and International operations. As part of that transition, the current U.S.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

AUGUST 3, 2016

In its August issue, influential glossy Vanity Fair has a long feature on the rage of the alumni about the sex abuse and the school's tolerance over the decades. Finally elite prep school in Rhode Island, St.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JULY 30, 2016

George's in the August issue by Benjamin Wallace in glossy VF. George's prep school, where annual tuition/fees total $56K, has joined the conga line of schools featured in Vanity Fair for internal misdeeds that were handled badly. Here is the article on St.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JULY 6, 2016

An article in Vanity Fair - yes, this is the kind of saga that glossy chases after - speculated that he got into this pickle because of grief. "Andrew W.W.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

MARCH 31, 2018

The high-priced glossy kind. That glossy about the rich and famous used to dominate the high-end gossip space. For five years Anna Wintour has had the big job of artistic director of publishing empire Conde Nast. But that has been during a time of growing digitalization.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

And it was assumed that being a Friend of Graydon Carter in the glam glossy niche of Vanity Fair ensured a long stay in investigative reporting. In the heady world of media, cool and glam used to shield many in the workforce from reductions-in-staff (RIFs).

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 23, 2014

That marketing ploy is as old as the magical thinking that somehow we will receive an invite to the Vanity Fair Academy Award party, instead of just reading about it in the glossy. "The company [Ello] filed in Delaware as a Public Benefit Corp.,

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

His saga is exactly the kind glossy Vanity Fair features. Given his track record for bizarre behavior (never mind that he allegedly murdered his father), Thomas Gilbert Jr. should be having an easy time of it.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

We can look forward to an influential glossy like Vanity Fair to do a major feature on this latest school for scandal. Between 1959 and the early 1980s, credible evidence exists that two monks at Portsmouth Abbey School sexually abused the students.

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Speaking about Presenting

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

People lust after great design – like iPads or Nancy Duarte’s latest book (I love the lush colour schemes and the subtle glossy paper). Sally Hogshead has written Fascinate – a book exploring the seven triggers that fascinate people. In this post, I explore how the triggers can be used when you’re presenting. These triggers have tremendous power and executed skilfully will compel your audience to listen to you.

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Speaking about Presenting

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

People lust after great design – like iPads or Nancy Duarte’s latest book (I love the lush colour schemes and the subtle glossy paper). Sally Hogshead has written Fascinate – a book exploring the seven triggers that fascinate people. In this post, I explore how the triggers can be used when you’re presenting. These triggers have tremendous power and executed skilfully will compel your audience to listen to you.

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Six-Figure Freelancer Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Occasionally they pay more for special supplements or glossy magazines they publish. Glossy consumer magazines you find on newsstands pay 50 cents to one dollar per word. Excerpt from Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing – Find, Price, Manage Corporate Writing Assignments & Develop Article Ideas and Sell Them to Newspapers and Magazines. Before we look at developing article ideas and pitching them to editors, we should talk money.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

AUGUST 12, 2017

Mmmm, this is the kind of saga glossies such as Vanity Fair love to chronicle in great detail. At Fox News and at Uber, a public relations crisis meant parachuting in a brandname law firm. As a result, media legend Roger Ailes was ousted and tech genius Travis Kalanick resigned.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

DECEMBER 17, 2017

It was speculated he did that because he didn't want to participate in any reductions-in-staff at that glossy. So many of us in communications started out in journalism. And The Dream was to have an article published in one of the Conde Nast titles. They range from The New Yorker to Vogue.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The media, such as glossy Vanity Fair , had a ball opening up the preppy school ethos for detailed inspection. For the second time, Owen Labrie has requested the New Hampshire Supreme Court grant him a new trial. The major argument is inadequate defense the first time around.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

  Flipping through the pages of glossy magazines and viewing the ads, we sure do experience plenty of what could be called "soft porn."  According to a study done by Symantec of 3.5 million online searches, the 6th most used term was "porn." 

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

But so are glossies Vanity Fair and Vogue. New social network Ello's signature is No Advertising. It even has a manifesto about those anti-promotional values. Here in Bloomberg Business Week, Brad Stone reports on Ello and interviews its Chief Executive Officer Paul Budnitz. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JULY 21, 2011

The same concern applies to glossy VANITY FAIR.  Read the commentary by THE NEW YORK TIMES executive editor Bill Keller and the newspaper's genteel values are obvious.    One wonders if it can afford to stay that way and not morph into more of sweatshop like those operated by purely digital sites. For the second quarter, THE TIMES reports, the company itself suffered a net loss of $119.7 million.    That was mostly from a non-cash write-down of $161.3

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

APRIL 28, 2016

Paul's became major stories in the influential glossy Vanity Fair. A university's branding attracts funding, research initiatives, brandname professors and applications from students.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

JUNE 11, 2012

  Its former head Bonnie Fuller remade it from a tabloid into a glossy. Without gossip, just as without sex, civilization couldn't continue.    What goes through the grapevine warns of danger, flags opportunity, and reinforces social norms. 

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Manner of Speaking

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

resonate (yes, the “r&# is intentionally lower case) is a glossy, beautifully designed, over-sized offering that is bursting with vivid images. It’s been said that there are no new stories; there are only new ways of telling the old stories.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

And glossy Vanity Fair doesn't miss a beat. Everything changes. Circling the Wagons Post Reince Priebus Testimony. Superlawyer (since the "Hogan v. Gawker" verdict) Charles Harder had exited the Harvey Weinstein Legal Dream Team.

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

AUGUST 12, 2009

  Clearly the golden age is over for glossy magazines.  The only good news at Conde Nast, reports  THE NEW YORK OBSERVER, is that NEW YORKER head David Remnick won't be interviewed by McKinsey and Company.    That means the magazine will likely be left alone.    Otherwise, the the news looks bad. 

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APRIL 29, 2009

  And the future of many other Conde Nast glossies - which require plenty of ads to support - is very iffy.    If there are too few ads there could be few issues remaining for the glossies. Just two years ago, the world was still thinking ad revenue.    As Rebecca Buckman reports in the May 11, 2009 edition of FORBES , tech entrepreneur Glenn Kelman "got the cold shoulder from many Silicon Valley venture capitalists." 

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

  Unfortunately most of those in old media were so embedded in glossy journalism that they didn't develop other marketable skills.  What happens to those old-media folks after they get laid off?    Seems they fall right into poverty, if they're lucky to find any job at all.    On Gawker, Hamilton Nolan reports that Amanda Ernst is now earning one-third what she did on a print magazine as editor on digital site Mediabistro.com. 

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MAY 31, 2009

  That's what Steve Fishman reports - ironically - in high-profile glossy NEW YORK Magazine in his cover story on the end of the golden age of magazines. The result is the implosion of the glossy magazine niche within media.  PORTFOLIO was supposed to be given five years to prove itself in the marketplace.    S.I. Newhouse had to pull it after two. 

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Public Speaking Advice and Commentary

APRIL 4, 2011

  To be sure, the graphics have improved – glossy pictures whizz past us at an ever-increasing rate – but that’s no excuse for shallow talks, shallow slides, and taking your talk at speed because you don’t have much to say.  One of the modern masters of data – and specifically data presented to an audience on a slide – is Hans Rosling.    He’s spoken regularly at TED and TEDx talks about big issues like child mortality, and his talks are mesmerizing. 

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

  To the surprise of most media watchers, Conde Nast started up business glossy PORTFOLIO a few years ago, then killed it this year. With Politico.com owning the media influence game in Washington D.C., the worst can be expected for the town's newspaper business.    WASHINGTON POST is being subsidized by the parent's successful Kaplan business.    The amazing thing, though, is that Rev. Moon's WASHINGTON TIMES has been holding on at all. 

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Public Speaking Advice and Commentary

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Gone are the author tours, the marketing blitzes, the ad placements in glossy magazines. The author and book business is changing rapidly, and the news is not good for a lot of the players. Fortunately, they can take a note from the music business and change their modus operandi to survive.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

  They aren't paying for traditional journalism, much of Conde Nast glossy stuff, or insightful self-expression.  That last stand for journalism and other pure-writer types Mediabistro.com might become a sort of recruiting source for Mickey D jobs.    Yeah, it's gotten that  bad and there's no light at the end of the tunnel.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

  Think the former head of the now-dead business glossy PORTFOLIO JoAnne Lipman.  For females who are going to make it big in any field, be it British Royalty or Manhattan media, legs matter.    They trump pedigree, high IQ, even talent.    Think Princess Di.    My very successful younger sister Anne Murga has great legs, only they're not long.    She often laments that, as do most shrewd women. 

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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Those clouds over glossies won't budge.    This long weekend, everyone is looking up at those planted over all those plum jobs at Time Inc.    Remember how you had to be an Ivy to snag one of them or start in the typing pool? Now, all us first-gen college folks who found our own sweet spot out there are thrilled there was no room for us in that elite space.    We learned cunning and hustle.    We also learned patience. 

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AUGUST 29, 2009

" The same bursting of the bubble occurred in glossy magazines, book publishing, advertising, and legal services.  Whoever thought it was an educational experience to throw thousands of adolescents together might look like a damn fool today.    The web is making that rite of passage of going to college unnecessary. 

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JULY 25, 2009

Or will it go to Glossy Heaven declaring itself the ruler on good taste? Okay the all-important September edition of VOGUE was a bust in terms of ad pages.    But that doesn't mean we can't save Anna Wintour and the publication.    First out, there gotta be a massive spread in VOGUE on consignment shops around the U.S. which stock size-12 brandname clothes, including dress-up for the holidays. 

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

  For him change might take the form of just giving up on the glossy world.  "How can they pay the bills?"  "  That's what I asked several people in-the-know about how the old-line clueless in Manhattan were paying their bills.    Their fixed costs were high.    Their models for business were stuck in pre-digital, pre-crash days so they obviously weren't bringing in too much revenue.

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