<![CDATA[Jezebel: R.i.p. Jane]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: R.i.p. Jane]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/r.i.p. jane http://jezebel.com/tag/r.i.p. jane <![CDATA[ What's Jane Pratt been up to? Did you have...]]> What's Jane Pratt been up to? Did you have to ask? She's working on a reality show called American Ugly, to signify, of all highly innovative ideas, a cross between American Idol and Ugly Betty, reports Page Six thanks to an insider whose description of the show is sure to set all your "OMG why didn't Ithink of that???" glands into overdrive: "The participating women 'are just the saddest bunch. These people not only needed fashion tips, they needed an entire mental makeover. Not one could possibly run a magazine. They were delusional.'" Um, could Jane Pratt really run a magazine? Whatevs. Philip Bloch is also involved, not that I really know who that is, not that it matters because I will once Tracie starts clipping this show. [NY Post] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=331910&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Forwarded to us by a reader: "Dear Jane...]]> Forwarded to us by a reader: "Dear Jane subscriber, With regret, we have decided that we will no longer be publishing Jane. In its place, we will be sending you Glamour for the duration of your remaining Jane subscription term..." (click on tag for more) More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=291996&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA['Jane''s Fate Was Written All Over That Shitty Pizza]]> So what's become of that subscription offer on the Jane website now that Jane is officially dead? An invitation to subscribe to Glamour, a "dorky" reader tips us. How dorky?
I am dorky enough to have gone to one of the "dinners with Jane!" things at their offices just when Brandon [Holley] took over.
Oooh, tell us more! Well for starters, the food was not exactly awesome.. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=277476&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Dear 'Jane' Readers, Explain To Us What You See In 'Nylon'?]]> How will you replace Jane? (Or as a newly jobless Jane alum just mused to us, how will Jane replace its jobs? "Do they write about diets now? Do they turn themselves into fashionistas?") Yesterday we took a poll as to your feelings on the matter, and last we checked the vast plurality of you said Nylon. Really? Nylon? We'd never actually read it. Until today! And we must conclude: "meh." The magazine really seems to like MySpace, which makes sense because it's sort of the less-unruly Myspace of paper, in that it might be fun for us if MySpace had not renedered all of hipsterdom (and the world) functionally illiterate already, so instead it reads like a braggy self-consciously dumbed-down menagerie of hipster references set off by pictures of hipster kids in hipster poses and ew there's Leigh from Misshapes. (Do you know who Leigh Lezark of the DJ collective Misshapes is? Did you only know because you read Gawker? We actually knew who Leigh from Misshapes was before she landed herself on Gawker, because we went to her party, "Misshapes," which would have probably been the most forgettable party we had ever in our lives attended if she didn't insist on reminding us of her incredibly substantive and influential existence so often). Anyhow! Onto the magazine. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=276940&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Why 'Jane' Folded: Think Its Readers Were Just Too Poor, Pissy, And Devoid of Aspirations?]]> Possibly the weirdest thing about writing about Jane folding today was finding out that one of our most popular posts ever, on the most recent issue featuring the quirktacular Zooey Deschanel, was one of our most popular posts in history. We don't really have the technical know-how to figure out why this is or what it means, but since this is a blog and not a doctoral thesis here we're going to venture that it indicates that, you know what? There was a market for what those people did, which was, at its most basic: cater to twentysomething women. So why didn't more advertisers buy into it? A big clue might lie in the conflict between the lineup of advertisers who did buy into the latest issue — Midol! AZO homeopathic urinary tract medication! Valtrex! Harley-Davidson? — and the message of editor-in-chief Brandon Holley's final editor's letter:
So, I propose we get away from these hateful comments and toxic blogging and just enjoy the summer.
Hahahahahaha yeah we love those summertime electric bills. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=276463&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Two Bitches Who Left 'Jane' — Er, 'Jill' — To Die]]> Meet Eva Dillon and Mary Berner, the two ex-Conde Nast publishers some people think are responsible for the downfall of Jane, the women's magazine that never quite managed to be what anyone wanted it to be but tried a lot harder than Glamour. The demise of Jane had been almost assured since Jane Pratt herself, the beloved/flaky founding editor of Sassy magazine, was forced from the magazine named for her in a nasty drama thinly fictionalized in the book Falling Out Of Fashion, which we recently read, and if anyone thinks Eva and Mary — or, ahem, "Liz Alexander and Ellen Cutter" — were the biggest problem with Jane, author and ex-Pratt assistant Karen Yampolsky seems to. In the book Liz and Ellen are ginormous Stepford-y bitches who may be gay for one another. And so much more! More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=276344&view=rss&microfeed=true