In your meaty Tuesday media column: rumors of coming layoffs (and a die-off?) at OK! magazine, a golf magazine is killed, advertising plummets, media companies may default, and Americans don't know a damn thing: We hear that OK! Magazine is, sadly, well on its way to becoming a mere shell of the gra...

In your deadly Tuesday media column: Arena is dead, Steven Brill is back to save journalism (with Emily???), the Washington Post tries to cut pay creatively, and our Martha Stewart feud continues: Arena , a 22 year-old men's magazine based in the UK, is being folded by Bauer publishing. Its final is...

In the magazine industry, Condé Nast has suffered the most this year. And within Condé Nast, Portolio is at absolute rock bottom. It's getting damned hard to see how the magazine survives. First quarter revenue for the title is off 60 percent, the Post's Keith Kelly writes, worse even than Wired (...

After asking about rumors that deceased environmental magazine Plenty was stiffing writers, we heard from more pissed-off former staffers. Some think the owner could pay if he wanted. One tipster told us that Plenty has had trouble paying writers for some time. There's a whole discussion thread on M...

Hard to imagine, but try: Could the eco-hippies who published late green magazine Plenty be stiffing writers who contributed to its last issue? Environmental writers are starting to suspect so! A tipster tells us a group of stiffed contributors is rounding up legal counsel to go after the magazine f...

What's this—rumors of more magazine death at Conde Nast? We've had enough. It's time to act. Vote on which teetering Conde mag you want to save, and we'll buy ten subscriptions to the winner. The New York Post's Page Six started the death watch at Allure and the New York Observer warned that t...

Last March, the NYT noted how well rich guy-targeted publisher Doubledown Media was doing: " Trader Monthly and similar publications do not need to worry 'until their readers give up their private planes.'" That happened! Alas, Doubledown Media has shut itself down. It ran out of money. Its bank cut...

The latest issue of The New Yorker runs 82 pages. What you see above is all—all—of the paid advertising. Is it time to get seriously concerned? The issue itself was great—Kelefah Sanneh on rethinking Booker T. Washington, a long Larissa MacFarquhar piece on Caroline Kennedy, Ta-Neh...

In your pleasant Thursday media column: Jay Mariotti is an asshole, Teens can't read, checks are bouncing, and more: A sad day for teen literary types: TEEN magazine and its website have been shuttered by Hearst. Seventeen will continue to publish. Kids aged 13-16 will have to read it aspirationally...

In today's media column: Time Inc still firing people, Plenty folds, a new FCC chief, a crazy media idea that won't work, and more! A tipster tells us that the 600 layoffs at Time Inc. aren't over yet: "Time Consumer Marketing's Promotions department axed 7 people yesterday." DO IT FASTER, Time Inc....