May 06-12, 2012
CAFME Special Projects Coordinator Melissa Paniagua rounds up the industry headlines you need to know this week.
Self editor-in-chief Lucy Danziger elected President of ASME
The American Society of Magazine Editors announced its officers for the year, naming Self editor Lucy Danziger its president. Also new elected officers were Rosemary Ellis, editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping, as vice-president; Mark Jannot, editor-in-chief of Popular Science and Science Illustrated, as secretary; and James Bennet, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, as treasurer. All officers are eligible for reelection at the end of the year.
Building your online portfolio? Try these five sites!
As online portfolios become more popular among job applicants, MediaBistro lists give free sites that help assemble clips.
7 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Internship
Lauren Berger, Intern Queen and author of All Work, No Pay, tells you how to make the most out of internship experiences, from finding the right internship and knowing what your rights are in a paid or unpaid internship to landing the job after.
A young ballet dancer from Maine gathered 25,000 signatures in protest against Photoshopped images and presented them to Ann Shoket, editor-in-chief of Seventeen. In defense, the magazine said in a statement, "We feature real girls in our pages and there is no other magazine that highlights such a diversity of size, shape, skin tone and ethnicity."
David Carey tells AdWeek about the importance of creating new content for all platforms in use today — be them traditional (print, broadcast) or modern (iPad, smartphone). He highlights Hearst's initiative too, citing examples such as Cosmopolitan's tablet-exclusive app, Cosmo for Guys, and the media corporation's two lifestyle channels on YouTuve, Hello Style and Car and Drive.
