Magazines Are Almost Dead. Like We Didn’t Know That One Already

Anna Wintour and nebish new boss, Si Newhouse enjoy their bit of parody in the Observer. The Observer went on to craft four articles on the death of the glossy. Yes, we know it’s already a cliche subject, put you can’t deny that the little blogger is becoming tomorrows publisher. Hell our site already get’s more monthly readers than Paris Vogue and it’s only a matter of time before we grab Vogue’s throne…

Freelance Fizzle! The Decline and Fall of the Writer

BY DOREE SHAFRIR“There’s not one path anymore,” David Hirshey, executive editor of HarperCollins and former longtime deputy editor of Esquire magazine, said the other day. “Thirty years ago, you worked at a newspaper, you moved to a magazine, and then you wrote books or screenplays. Today you can be a blogger who writes books or you can be a stripper who wins an Academy Award for Best Screenplay.” MORE >

Where Will Magazines Be Ten Years From Now?

BY JOHN KOBLINIn the next five years in Graydon Carter’s world, you’ll walk onto a plane, or a subway, or a soon-to-be-invented mode of transport, and you’ll tuck a little electronic book under your arm. Inside that little book, which will be very expensive at first but soon will cost $150, there’ll be a series of mylar “pages,” and there will be small buttons off to the side, and once you hit one of them, whoooosh, words and photos from Vanity Fair will suddenly appear. MORE >

World’s Youngest Relic: Master of the New Old Journalism

BY MATT HABERIt’s still possible to practice the dying art of old-school magazine journalism. But if you love it, like David Samuels, it will probably break your heart. MORE >

What Makes Annie Shoot?

BY CHOIRE SICHAThe great Leibovitz realized she was never a journalist but made news with magazine covers. An artist who was once fascinated with her subjects lately seems largely fascinated with herself. MORE >

Illustration by Victor Juhasz

After the jump, Is Anne Lebowitz the real culprit in this Lebron/Vogue race mess?

You can’t deny how similar her photo looks to the “Army Enlistment” one we found and considering that Anne is the oldest photographer on the block, I’m sure she must remember when these babies hit the street back in pre-Civil War Kentucky (okay, I’m not sure how old Anne is or if she’s from Kentucky, but it seems to fit)…