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Aspirational magazine publisher Conde Nast has signed the long-awaited deal to assume over one million square feet of office space in One World Trade Center, which when completed will be the tallest skyscraper in the nation. The lease marked the largest single tenant to be brought into Lower Manhattan in years. The project is being developed by the Port Authority …

Last week New York’s most widely-read Spanish-language newspaper, El Diario, published an editorial supporting marriage equality and obliquely criticizing state Sen. Ruben Diaz for his upcoming anti-gay rally. Yesterday Diaz announced that he will be spearheading a boycott of the paper because of their supposedly anti-Christian positions. The Newspaper, El Diario La Prensa, calls itself “The Champion of the Hispanics.” …

Beginning March 28th, you’ll be allowed to read exactly twenty New York Times articles per month. After that, you’ve gotta pay. Once readers click on their 21st article, they will have the option of buying one of three digital news packages — $15 for a month of access to the Web site and a mobile phone app; $20 for Web …

The body of Michael Portantino, the publisher of San Diego’s recently defunct Gay & Lesbian Times, has been found outside a local gay hotel. The San Diego County coroner is calling it an apparent suicide. The decedent was a 52 year old single White male who resided in a home in San Diego. On 12/08/10, he apparently jumped from a …

The British version of Metro, a free daily newspaper, held a contest in which the winning reader would be allowed to use the front page for whatever reason they liked. The winner decided to use the space to propose to his boyfriend of five years. Here’s how his partner got the news. Having missed out on his own copy from …

Dubya’s memoir launches today and The Daily Beast has ranked the best-selling books by politicians in the last ten years. Dubya’s publisher is shipping 1.5M copies for the initial run, but of course no one knows if those will actually sell through.

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Bob Guccione, founder of Penthouse Magazine and the man whose spectacular flop Caligula introduced hetero movie audiences to fisting, has died at the age of 79. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1930, Guccione started Penthouse in the mid-1960s. By the 1980s, he had created a $300 million media business and Penthouse had a circulation of 4.7 million, according to …

“Ex-gay” whackadoodle and multiple felon James Hartline is claiming credit for this week’s shuttering of the San Diego Gay & Lesbian Times. Of course, the paper’s closure had absolutely nothing to do with James Hartline, but facts and lying matter little to San Diego’s “leading warrior for Christ” (his self-awarded title.) We’re still waiting on Hartline’s promised Broadway musical The …

With the guidance of GLAAD, Essence Magazine, which is aimed at black females, has published an online photo essay of a lesbian wedding. The article includes a profile of how the women met and later married in Washington DC. This is a first for the magazine.

Copyranter points out James Franco’s cover shot for the first issue of Candy Magazine, “the first transversal style magazine.” One thousand copies only, street date October 24th.

The Jewish Standard says that it is SO very sorry to have run that gay wedding announcement and won’t be doing that again. We set off a firestorm last week by publishing a same-sex couple’s announcement of their intent to marry. Given the tenor of the times, we did not expect the volume of comments we have received, many of …

Long-running LGBT publishing house Alyson Books is restructuring as an e-books only company following its acquisition by Here Media several years ago. Many of Alyson’s authors have long-overdue books, including Village Voice columnist Michael Musto, who went very public with his complaints last month. John Knoebel, v-p of consumer marketing at Here Media, has been named interim publisher until a …

The New York Times will cease production of its print edition relatively soon according to its publisher. “We will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD,” Arthur Sulzberger told an audience at a London media summit Wednesday. Sulzberger’s statement came in response to a prediction that the newspaper would go out-of-print by 2015. “This sounds …

Last month the Federal Trade Commission issued an unprecedented warning to the owners of the defunct XY Magazine, telling them that a plan to sell its massive subscriber list could endanger some of the title’s former readers who still lived with their parents. JMG reader Band tips us today that the magazine’s publisher has agreed to destroy those records. The …

After weeks of rumors, today the New York Times confirms that Conde Nast is ready to ink a deal to move its fleet of aspirational magazines and their accompanying army of snooty clackers away from their present midtown location and into One World Trade Center. Where they will be miles away from anything remotely hip! Oh noes! The deal to …

The Washington Post has sold Newsweek to electronics billionaire Sidney Harman for $1 in return for his pledge to assume the struggling title’s liabilities and retain most of its staff. Newsweek has struggled through the recession more than most weekly news magazines, losing nearly $30 million last year alone. It was earning that much a year as recently as 2007. …

Calling it a “major threat” to public safety, the Federal Trade Commission has issued an unusual warning to the owners of the defunct gay youth title XY Magazine, noting that since many of their former subscribers probably live with their parents, they could be endangered by the sale of its mailing list. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has warned two …

The Plaid Crew comments on the new issue of Vermont Catholic: This is the actual cover of the current issue of Vermont Catholic magazine, the monthly publication put out by the Diocese of Burlington. No joke. Less than a week after an almost-$18 million settlement with the remaining 26 plaintiffs (you know, all those kids who were diddled by priests …