Simon Doonan Ditches the Observer for Slate.com

Edited by Saynt

Guess the Observer is having some trouble holding onto their senior contributors. Simon Doonan has just exited the weekly newspaper for Slate.com.

A major blow to old media, a major gain for new media.

Who’s excited about reading Doonan’s first story on Slate.com?

RUMORS: McKinsey Consultants Tell Condé Nast to Cut Back on Photo Shoots

Edited by Hillary Frazier

Apparently Condé’s consultant friends aren’t too happy on the way the money is being spent over in Times Square. They told the Observer:

“There are little ways of cutting,” said one staffer, who drank a bit of the McKinsey Kool-Aid. “You don’t need to send an entire posse to Joshua Tree for a shot in the desert! Who cares! If the photographer is good, and the clothes are good, the models are good, it’s fine — you can shoot downtown.”

Yes, desert and downtown aren’t the same, but is this likely to be a win for the non-prints? I think so! Print is dead ftw.

LINK LOVE: NY Mag