Jack Kliger won’t stay on as chairman at Hachette Filipacchi Media after all. Kliger, who was kicked upstairs at Hachette Filipacchi Media starting Sept. 1, will instead have the title of senior advisor to his replacement, incoming president and CEO Alain Lemarchand.
 

With a backdrop of rising paper costs and declining advertising, Vibe is downsizing. The hip-hop monthly will switch to a smaller trim size as it redesigns with the October issue, on sale Sept. 16. Vibe also cut its rate base, to 800,000 from 850,000 starting in July.

Saying it wanted to increase its search engine optimization and "help build more intriguing content" for Tribune Co. sites, Tribune Interactive (TI) named new appointments to a restructured content team.

Rodale Inc. has announced a content syndication partnership with the fast growing, female-focused ad network Glam Media, marking one of the few examples of a traditional magazine publisher electing to collaborate with the long-tail centric media upstart.

Less than two weeks after stepping down as CEO of Alpha Media Group, Kent Brownridge has landed a new gig, as general manager of the U.S. edition of Northern & Shell’s OK!
 

TasteofHome.com, the Web offshoot of the Reader’s Digest Association-owned magazine aimed at recipe-lovers, has quietly rolled out a new video channel that blends original content, user-generated clips and professionally produced cooking fare from across the Web.

Nonconformist music magazine Paste is bucking convention again, launching an online ad network that it says gives advertisers premium inventory and access to an influential, culture-seeking audience.

Four weeks after ABC Television took over an issue of TV Guide to promote its fall programming slate, rival network CBS is making a similarly big splash, taking out a 20-page spread in People magazine to promote its lineup of fall shows like Two and a Half Men and CSI.

CondéNet's Style.com is set to roll out a new shopping channel designed to better enable users to shop for the fashion and accessories that the site's renowned editors choose to showcase on the site.

Three years after being tapped to edit Women’s Health, vp, editor Tina Johnson is leaving the Rodale title. Her departure comes less than three months after Dave Zinczenko, Men’s Health editor and Rodale senior vp, added editorial oversight of the MH spinoff for active women. Her replacement is expected to be named in the coming months.

Jann Wenner has switched publishers again at Rolling Stone, moving Will Schenck from Men’s Journal to head up sales at his flagship magazine. Schenck replaces Ray Chelstowski, who has been in the position since February 2006 and who is leaving the company. Chelstowski’s predecessor, Steve DeLuca, also held the position for two years.

Recession or no recession, magazine companies are expected to ask for the usual 3 percent to 7 percent cost-per-thousand increases next year, many of them citing the need to offset higher expenses.

With Kent Brownridge stepping down as Maxim and Blender chief amid speculation that parent Alpha Media Group was not meeting the expectations of its bosses at Quadrangle Capital Partners, some wondered if cost cuts weren’t far off.

This is the Facts & Figures page updated for August 25, 2008. Also, read Lucia Moses' analysis of the Fashion & Beauty category.

WSJ., The Wall Street Journal’s new luxury magazine and Dow Jones & Co.’s first launch since being acquired by News Corp. last year, boasts 51 advertisers in its Sept. 6 launch issue.

Hiring a category sales executive to boost ads is hardly unusual for a magazine. But Spin magazine’s hire of Kelly Rae as executive fashion director is atypical in that in addition to overseeing fashion ad sales, she will have a dual role as advisor to editorial, suggesting ways to incorporate products into stories and photos.

Amid an economic slump that has taken a particularly big toll on the shelter category, Hachette Filipacchi Media has shuttered its long-struggling Home magazine.

Kent Brownridge, the ex-Wenner Media executive who emerged from retirement last year to lead the private-equity takeover of Maxim and Blender magazines, is out after a year as the CEO of their parent company, Alpha Media Group.
 

Meredith Corp. has tapped Dana Points, executive editor at Condé Nast’s Self, to fill its top editor slot at Parents.

In a big show of support for the print medium, ABC Television is taking over the Aug. 25 issue of TV Guide to promote its fall programming slate. The 21-page buy represents the first time a sole advertiser has sponsored an entire issue of the magazine.

Fills the role previously held by Glenn Rosenbloom, who left in February to become president of Alpha Media Group

Holden had been creative director of Time Inc.’s Real Simple before starting her own consulting business, Vanessa Holden AD+D

The always-interesting results of the biennial news consumption survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press were released Sunday afternoon. Findings on TV news and online-only news produced a few surprises (follow to come), but on the newspaper front the indications were mainly negative, especially on the print front, but also in some aspects of newspapers on the Web.

It’s too late to remedy magazines’ poor newsstand showing for the first half of ’08, when single-copy sales slumped 6.3 percent to 44.1 million, per the Audit Bureau of Circulations. But an upcoming promotion could boost sales as the summer, traditionally a stronger period for newsstand purchases, comes to a close.

Another major newspaper chain has decided to put up for sale several of its properties -- including the Austin American-Statesman -- even as other dailies around the country continue to languish on the auction block. That was Wednesday's news. The question today is: Why?

Gannett vp of Corporate Communications Tara Connell confirmed the reductions to E&P Thursday afternoon, adding that decisions on staff cuts would be made at each property based on financial targets and performances. The McLean, Va.-based company publishes more than 80 dailies, including USA Today, and 900 non-dailies.

The McClatchy Co. has sold Real Cities to Chicago-based Centro for an undisclosed sum.
Centro provides software to help agencies plan and buy advertising on local Web sites. Real Cities is the online advertising network started by Knight Ridder in 2000 that sold online inventory of participating newspapers. About 1,800 newspaper Web sites are part of Real Cities.

In one fell swoop, the Tribune Co. took nearly half the value of the Times Mirror acquisition off its books. On Wednesday, the company reported a staggering Q2 loss from continuing operations of $3.8 billion on a goodwill impairment charge of $3.8 billion, due almost entirely to the Times Mirror purchase. That March 2000 transaction of $8 billion was once the largest newspaper deal in history.

Rolling Stone announced today that it will move to a standard-sized format effective with the biweekly's Oct. 30 issue on newsstands Oct. 17.

For its first two U.S. launches under CEO Mary Berner, Reader’s Digest Association is looking abroad for inspiration.