
Retirement tests if Beckham built lasting brand
David Beckham's pecs are at least as much a part of his brand as his kick; his brand of shoes ultimately more lucrative than the game he's giving up.

Beards name ChopChop top food publication of 2013
No trendy restaurants. No fancy equipment. No hard-to-find hipster ingredients. The pages of this year's top food publication don't read like your ...

Collins gets plenty of support after coming out
Jason Collins nearly got Rick Welts into $200 worth of trouble. Welts is the president of the Golden State Warriors, and is gay. And a short while ...
Ex-Ms. magazine editor Mary Thom dies in NY crash
Prominent feminist Mary Thom, a writer and former editor of Ms. magazine who also was an avid motorcyclist, crashed while riding on a highway and was ...

Conde Nast launches slate of original programming
Conde Nast is launching a slate of original Web series, continuing the publisher's push to expand its stable of magazines into multimedia programming.
Time spin-off highlights risks facing magazines
From Sports Illustrated to People to its namesake magazine, Time Inc., was always an innovator. But now when the troubled magazine industry is facing ...

Time Warner spinning off Time Inc. magazines
Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that it will spin off the magazine unit behind Time, Sports Illustrated and People into a separate, publicly traded ...

Playboy magazine in Hebrew
Israelis can now read Playboy 'for the articles' as a Hebrew language edition came to the holy land Tuesday. Playboy has been widely available in ...

McIlroy tells SI: Leaving course a mistake
Rory McIlroy says he should have finished his second round at the Honda Classic, telling Sports Illustrated magazine that "it was not the right thing ...
Schwarzenegger to be executive editor of magazines
He was the Terminator, then a governor, and now Arnold Schwarzenegger is an editor. The Los Angeles Times reports (http://lat.ms/13vBGcy ) ...
Yemeni al-Qaida posts new issue of online magazine
Yemen's al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula — considered to be the terror network's most dangerous branch — is urging for holy war in a new edition of ...
Pippa Middleton to write column for magazine
Pippa Middleton is making another foray into lifestyle writing. The younger sister to Prince William's wife Kate will become a columnist for a monthly ...

Reader's Digest parent seeks bankruptcy protection
The parent company of Reader's Digest has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time in less than four years, saying it needs to ...
UK royals condemn plans to publish Kate pictures
An Italian magazine that published topless photos of Prince William's wife last year is reportedly printing new pictures of the pregnant duchess on ...

NY Fashion Week opens with new fall trend: freedom
From delicate purple skirts to thigh-high boots in lizard, New York Fashion Week opened Thursday with an anything goes vibe for fall. "The trend is ...
US magazine circulation flat despite digital gains
Magazine industry auditors say more U.S. magazines are selling more digital copies, but they still represented just 2.4 percent of circulation in the ...

Time Warner 4Q earnings up, raises dividend 11 pct
Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday that net income grew 51 percent in the last three months of 2012 even as revenue was largely unchanged. Rising fees ...
Time Inc. cuts 500 people, 6 pct of workforce
Time Inc., the magazine unit of Time Warner Inc., says it is cutting 6 percent of its global staff of 8,000, or about 500 people. The cuts began ...

Editor gets 10 years in jail for Thai royal insult
A prominent Thai activist and magazine editor was sentenced to a decade in prison Wednesday for defaming Thailand's monarchy, a verdict rights groups ...
German magazine mistakenly publishes Bush obituary
Germany's respected news weekly Der Spiegel mistakenly published an obituary Sunday for former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, hours after a family ...
Terry Glover, Ebony managing editor, dies at 57
Terry Glover, the managing editor of Ebony magazine, has died of colon cancer at her Chicago home. She was 57. Ebony announced on its website that ...
Author, 'Whorehouse' playwright Larry L. King dies
Larry L. King, a writer and playwright whose magazine article about a campaign to close down a popular bordello became a hit Tony Award-nominated ...

Transgenders break into Brazil's modeling sector
Walking the catwalk in a Brazilian bikini is a nerve-racking experience for even the most seasoned of models, but for Felipa Tavares it's nothing ...

Possible Wintour appointment gets London talking
Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams ... and now Anna Wintour? A report suggesting that the influential editor-in-chief of Vogue is one ...