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Black is candid, though, about her belly flops, most notably Talk magazine. Its superstar editor, Tina Brown, hosted "the party of the decade" to launch the celebrity and politics magazine in 1999, but it never connected with readers and went out of business two years later. In her book, Black admits that Hearst was seduced by the hype around the magazine. "Don't allow the siren song of the buzz to keep you from paying sufficient attention to the basics," she cautions...
...year-olds from Bahrain to Cairo. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the channel's most important market for advertising but also the most conservative, so K.S.A. 2.0, as the youngest MTV executives call it, is the default setting for how far is too far. The launch team, a mix of Saudis, Palestinians, Emiratis, Iraqis and Lebanese, decided on a 60-40 split between music videos and reality programming...
...channel is just the start for MTV. The launch will swell its reach to 36 million households that get MTV Arabia via satellite, up from 200,000 who now get MTV on pay TV, and MTV will earn an estimated $10 million annually for 10 years in licensing fees from AMG. MTV also has deals with AMG and its parent, TECOM Investments, both controlled by the ruler of Dubai, to launch an Arabic version of Nickelodeon kids' channel next year. A Comedy Central channel, film co-production deals with Paramount (a unit of MTV's parent, Viacom) and a Nickelodeon...
From the confessions of a pageant participant to articles exploring lesbian identities, a new journal on gender issues made its debut at a lively launch party yesterday. The magazine, Amplify, is sponsored by the Harvard College Women’s Center. Editor-in-chief Natasha S. Alford ’08 said she thought of the project while an intern at the Women’s Center last year. She said she was struck by the dearth of campus publications focusing on women and gender instead of just touching upon the issues. Alford said that many of the existing forums...
...group voted to launch a formal study of Shady Hill Square, stalling the construction of a mansion on the land for at least a year...