Thursday, April 3, 2014
2014 FAME Awards Winners Announced
David Remnick Is Syracuse University’s 160th Commencement Speaker
Kevin Feige: The Man Who Saved Marvel
LIFE's Surprise Marlon Brando Birthday Gift
Tavi and the Taviettes
Ebony Magazine Releases State of the Black Family Survey
Consumer Reports Looks at Infant Seats
Delta Redesigns Its In-Flight Magazine for Digitally Affluent Flyers
CMD Is Merging with The Progressive Magazine
Iconic Travel Magazine Holiday Is Resurrected from the Dead
Quentin Tarantino’s Gawker Lawsuit Over Leaked “Hateful Eight’ Script Gets Trial Date
North Korean Smear Campaign Cites Japanese Magazine
AMC Won't Sell Mad Men Finale in Upfronts
Mobile Is Hitting the Nuclear Reset Button
Study: Programmatic Buying Remains a Puzzle
There’s still time to register for the MPA-IMAG Conference in Washington D.C. Learn how to turn macro and micro shifts into mega opportunities for your brands while sharing and networking with your fellow independent magazine media peers. May 19-20.
The awards will be presented at the National Magazine Awards Annual Dinner at the New York Marriott Marquis tonight. The awards are supported by Publishers Press and Blippar.
Tell your readers to visit Facebook from March 31 to April 13 to vote for their favorite covers. The most "liked" cover of the 10 finalists will win the ASME Best Cover Contest Readers' Choice Award.
Speakers include MPA’s Mary G. Berner, Hearst’s Michael Clinton, All You’s Nina Willdorf and Deborah Curtis, The Atlantic’s Corby Kummer and Jay Lauf, Glamour’s Cindi Leive and Bon Appetit’s Adam Rapaport—plus Richard B. Stolley, the founding editor of PEOPLE, and Dorothy Kalins, the founding editor of Metropolitan Home and Saveur.
Sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School and ASME
Moderated by Victor Navasky, George T. Delacorte Professor in Magazine Journalism and Chair of the Columbia Journalism Review. To attend, RSVP to Nina at NFortuna@magazine.org

Six years ago Elizabeth Kelsey won the women's division of a 5K race. At the awards ceremony she noticed that the male winner, who'd only beaten her by a few seconds, was a handsome, dark-eyed guy named Maroun. They flirted. He told her he was originally from Lebanon and he challenged Elizabeth to the next race on one condition: The loser would make tabbouleh, the Middle Eastern salad, for the winner. The bet was on. Read all about it in the Ladies' Home Journal Everyday Favorites online section.