The Guardian has released its annual publicity stab known as the Media 100. Because this is a British list, there are two names that begin with "Sir." [Guardian]
Adweek's semi-arbitrary ranking of "hot" magazines places The Economist at the top in this, the trade mag's 28th annual listicle. Given that they also named Men's Vogue the "hottest startup" of the year, you're now free to completely ignore any weight you actually gave to these rankings. (Family Circle making the No. 7 spot overall should've been reason enough.) Below, watch The Economist's "executive team of the year" do its best to remain humble. CONTINUED »
Know what PR firms like Pierce Mattie are good at doing? Sending out press releases. So turn down the shock value when you learn that as we near 2007's close, they're ready with a list of the top twenty magazines to watch in '08. Then, color nobody surprised that Vogue took the No. 1 slot, or that it was followed down the list by Esquire, W, and Nylon. Those magazines traffic in hype.
Which meant it was a little more surprising to find titles like the best-of-both-worlds Garden & Gun, online fashion social networking spin-off, IQONS, and cosmetics industry quarterly On Makeup Magazine.
Not that Pierce Mattie's judgment, as to who deserves to make their ranking, is clouded or anything. They only represent scores of clients in the fashion and beauty categories who might hope to get into those magazines. Or does that make them even more qualified to forecast 2008's influentials?
Today, we here at Jossip Headquarters have decided to commemorate our nation's triumph over the American Indians and propensity for over-eating by taking a moment to reflect on our wonderful lives and come up with a list of things for which we are thankful. Next: raronauer.
Around this time every year, my father proclaims his greatest wish is to collect the tolls on Throgs Neck Bridge for just one Thanksgiving. But Thanksgiving is not the time for bizarre dreams of winning some sort of municipal lottery. It’s a time to give thanks to the simple pleasures things, like the four day weekend ahead of us. CONTINUED »
Today, we here at Jossip Headquarters have decided to commemorate our nation's triumph over the American Indians and propensity for overeating by taking a moment to reflect on our wonderful lives and come up with a list of things for which we are thankful. First up: Debbie Newman.
This year, I am thankful…
• That hosting Thanksgiving means I will not have to watch the football game, Macy's Day parade or require every person at the table to do something hokey like say "two or three things for which I am thankful" this year.*
In honor of Halloween, Forbes has compiled a somewhat macabre list of the Top-Earning Dead Celebrities. The artist formerly known as Elvis Presley snags the coveted number one spot (Quelle surprise!) edging out worthy competitors such as John Lennon's corpse and the ghost of Marilyn Monroe.
Meanwhile, the deceased Tupac Shakur snagged eight place, despite reportedly initiating an East Coast/West Coast rivalry "thing" with the now-soulless Godfather of Soul. [via Stereohyped]
• Presidential hopeful (and devout Yankees fan) Rudy Giulani recently admitted he's rooting for the Red Sox in the World Series. If the man can't maintain a firm stance on baseball teams, how can we trust that he'll stick to his avid pro-choice agenda?
• Disappointed Kelly Rowland fans are tersely informed that there will be no concert or ticket refunds. Then again, hadn't they already essentially thrown their money in the trash by purchasing tix to a Kelly Rowland concert in the first place?
• Jemma Ward is neither Chinese nor Indian, yet she was on the cover for the premiere issues of both Vogue China and Vogue India. That girl is fierce.
• Lindsay Lohan is a living, breathing testament to the fact that nothing cures long-term drug abuse and chronic alcoholism like dirty rehab sex and covert pill-popping.
Today, Jossip celebrates its fourth wonderful year of existence. In honor of this momentous occasion, each editor has come up with a list of goals/achievements he/she hopes to have accomplished by the time Jossip turns five. It's overlord David Hauslaib's turn.
By this time next year, I will have …
1) Trained my staff not to regard my absence from the office as an opportunity to turn their hateful chain emails about me into in-person bickering.
2) Increased Jossip's frenemy list – which currently hovers around just a half dozen – by adding someone new every day.
3) Curtailed expenses by cutting waste, such as Internet access. That, or boosted productivity by blocking Google chat. And banning email.
4) Posted another Match.com profile of a leading blog mogul.
Today, Jossip celebrates its fourth wonderful year of existence. In honor of this momentous occasion, each editor has come up with a list of goals/achievements he/she hopes to have accomplished by the time Jossip turns five. Next up: Corynne Steindler*
By this time next year, I will have….
1. Stopped accepting $1,000 Christmas gifts on behalf of Richard Johnson.
2. Discovered how to attend an open bar without getting intoxicated to the point of slipping off the bar stool. Twice.
3. Gotten a Blackberry.
4. Stopped referring to Liz Smith as "The Cryptkeeper."
Today, Jossip celebrates its fourth wonderful year of existence. In honor of this momentous occasion, each editor has come up with a list of goals/achievements he/she hopes to have accomplished by the time Jossip turns five. Next up: Andrew Belonsky
By this time next year, I will….
1. Get "Jossip" in a dictionary. I don't really care if it's Merriam-Webster's, Oxford or rudimentary reading's, just as long as someone, somewhere can flip through the J's and find us nestled between "joss stick" and "jostle": a fitting location.
2. Coin and propagate new definition of "gay". I must use the g-word about a billion times a day. Yes, there are other words, but some people find them offensive. Homosexual's too clinical. Fag's too aggressive. Queer's unclear. Homo sounds too flippant. Like the monarchy, "queen" should be retired. [Note to self: Yag? That's gay backwards. Could work, but lesbians may object to leading 'Y' for the chromosomal connotations. Find lesbian, ask her opinion, apply that opinion to all lesbians].
Today, Jossip celebrates its fourth wonderful year of existence. In honor of this momentous occasion, each editor has come up with a list of goals/achievements he/she hopes to have accomplished by the time Jossip turns five. Next up: raronauer
Wow, Debbie. Interviewing Hill Clint? I’m impressed. My goals are mostly about doing less work. Well, you know, humble goals for a humble woman.
By this time next year, I will have….
1. Figured out a way to smoke breaks without having to smoke.
2. Tricked David into giving me monthly three-day weekends.
3. Written less frequently and with more accuracy about the Times most e-mailed list.
4. Found an intern to do Wednesday Reads.
Today, Jossip celebrates its fourth wonderful year of existence. In honor of this momentous occasion, each editor has come up with a list of goals/achievements he/she hopes to have accomplished by the time Jossip turns five. First up: Debbie Newman.
By this time next year, I will have….
1. Interviewed Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, and told Dennis Kucinich's publicist, "Yeah, this probably isn't going to happen," referring simultaneously to both the presidency and the interview.
2. Finally stopped introducing David as "my sort-of boss."
3. Admitted that my quality of writing is inversely proportional to the amount of alcohol I've consumed the night before.
4. Found a way to hand out my business card without saying "They're pink. And scented. I think it gives them a little something extra."
Useless list month continues at Forbes.
This week, it’s top selling faces, not in terms of plastic surgery requests, but by magazine sales. According to Forbes, Jennifer Aniston has the best selling mug.
But in the past year, Jennifer Aniston has not found love, lost love, become addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, overcome addiction to drug and/or alcohol, gained weight, lost weight, given birth to a child or adopted a child.
It’s a mystery to us that she even gets on the cover of tabloids, let alone sells them. But the list is kind of funny: Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, who’ve done nearly all of those things, didn’t even make it.
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The most famous pundit in America is Roger Ebert. At least that’s what Forbes's new list says.
We thought pundit referred to a political commentator, but we checked Merriam-Webster, and the official definition is a person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media.
Roger Ebert is a pundit, in the same way that Rosie O’Donnell (6), Leonard Maltin (7) and Bill Walton (10) are.
With apologies to our favorite movie “pundit” A.O. Scott, but Roger Ebert really is the best known film critic in the world. Even his trademarked thumbs make news. Since Ebert was diagnosed with jaw cancer, the only topic Romenesko posts more about is job cuts.
Still, what kind of list is this? Rosie O’Donnell isn't even an authority on her own book.
Breaking: "Meredith Vieira's shift to co-anchor of "The Today Show" was a smarter career move than Katie Couric's arrival at CBS Nightly News!" according to Forbes' annual ranking of the World's Most Powerful Women everyone in media.
And while Vieira pulled in at number 55, Couric ranked at a paltry 63, which was just good enough to place her three spots behind First Lady Laura Bush and just behind her arch nemesis, Diane Sawyer, who clocked in at 62.
Absent from the list was Vieira's former View co-host, Rosie O'Donnell, though it should be noted that Barbara Walters ranked 75th overall (and 12th in pay) on Forbes' "Celebrity 100" earlier this year.
Meanwhile, despite being able to bounce a quarter off her derrière, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice saw herself get "bounced" down to 4th place, losing the top spot to German chancellor Angela Merkel.
Isn't the Mass Listicle Phenomenon supposed to be reserved for the end of days the year? As CBS Public Eye blogger Matthew Felling notes, we're only at mid-year and already we're being bombarded. There's the American Film Institute "Top 100 Films of All Time," Forbes' "Celebrity 100," and Chicago Tribune's "Our Favorite Magazines."
Some blame the influx of lists-as-content on a slow news cycle. Others, a lack of creativity. Surely one of those is behind Jon Friedman's entry today: "The biggest media stories of 2007 are …"
Or both.
• In desperate post-Sopranos haze, HBO greenlights new episodes of Unsolved Mysteries.
• Is YouTube destined to become the new Friendster and fade into "I Love The 00's" obscurity?
• Advertisers already starting to back away from Portfolio on the basis that it's boring and reads like "Business for Dummies."
• Joe Scarborough and his cronies "jokingly" ripped the producers' Paris Hilton script into pieces, pretended to light it on fire, then stuck it in the paper shredder. It's called journalism, people.
Well, the latest list of 50 Important And Disgustingly Rich Tech-Nerds is out, and—despite some impressive IQ's and robust bank accounts—there's hardly a looker among them. Sure, Google execs have plenty of expensive toys and Steve Jobs has that wire-rimmed glasses look down pat, but so far we're just not seeing anyone we'd willingly trust to babysit our kid sister (or pick to be our "wingman.")
And while most of the smart-but-uglies glare defiantly or leer creepily in their pictures, (nice beret, Craig Newmark!) plenty of information superhighway bold-facers aren't even pictured, causing our imaginations to run wild, conjuring upimages of never-before-seen unattractiveness typically relegated to the likes of pedophiles and serial killers.
So who made the cut? The CEOs (and/or founders) of Google, Apple, Skype, eBay and Kazaa, the FCC chairman, a U.S. Senator, a cryptographer and "MySpace Personality," Tila Tequila, among others. The highest ranked blogger (Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, of Daily Kos) ranked in at No. 23, just below Ray Ozzie, (Chief software architect for Microsoft) and above Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon).
The Top Ten Cybergeeks are revealed after the jump, and remember: regardless of their hilarious combovers, furrowed unibrows or shiny complexions, they're all much, much, richer** than you.
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The latest Forbes listicle is out, giving us a ranked list of today's "active megastars," (a.k.a. "Top 20 Richest Women,") telling us how much bank our favorite working girls are actually pulling in. Turns out, it's a hell of a lot.
Unsurprisingly, Oprah leads the way with a net-worth of $1.5 billion, with J.K. Rowling trailing pitifully at a mere $1 billion fortune. The list extends through to the Olsen Twins, whose combined fortunes total approximately $100 million, all the way down to Renee Zellweger, who's in dead last with a paltry $45 million.**
Of course, the most amusing part of all this is the information they've opted to include within each millionaire (or billionaire's) bio. After explaining the ground rules, (no has-beens like Barbra Streisand allowed), Forbes gives a brief synopsis cataloguing each lucky lady's background and professional endeavors, as well as noting her name, rank, net work, age, marital status, number of children and source of worth.
Jennifer Aniston
Rank: 10
Net Worth (In $ millions); 110
Age: 37
Marital Status: single
Kids: 0
Source: TV
Consider it this way. You may not be on Forbes list of the "Top 20 Richest Women," but at least you don't have to be constantly (and publicly) reminded of how pathetically alone you are in the universe. Unless, of course, you happen to read The New York Times.
Earlier: The Reason You're Still 'Single In The City?' You're Not Thinking 'Old' Enough
**Unlucky, Dylan McKay!
In a surprising turn of events, Hillary Clinton earns top rankings in New York City's most recent "Best-Dressed" list. The MILF edged out Knicks' coach Isiah Thomas, "female-first" homemaker Martha Stewart, and the birthday girl, Katie Couric herself.
Also crackingthe top ten were rapper Mos Def, Ivanka Trump, Andrew Giuliani, Charlie Rangel, Rachael Ray and Jon Stewart. Mariah Carey lead the way in the worst-dressed category, followed closely by Mayor Bloomberg, Headth Ledger and Michelle Williams, Mario Batali, Lil' Kim and Lindsay Lohan.
But far more interesting than the actual winners (and losers) was the reasoning behind the decision-making process. Check out this sampling, below:
KATIE COURIC: She may not be everyone's favorite correspondent but Couric sure can dress…
IVANKA: Little Miss Trumpshine is everywhere these days, from the parties at the Met to the pages of Stuff. But whether she's buttoned up or bosomed out, she manages to look fab.
MARIAH CAREY: Someone stole the belly off of every single outfit in her wardrobe!
MARIO BATALI: Love the man and his food dearly, but after a decade of shorts, vests and plastic sandals - with socks! - Batali's party-king uniform is wearing thin, just like that pony tail.
Not sure we agree with some of the top-picks, but definitely approved of the bottom-feeders. Way to go, Daily Snooze! Here's to hoping the fashionably-challenged will take this piece as a wake-up call!
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