Entertainment Weekly

Libby Conover, formerly style and entertainment director at GQ, has been named international fashion director at Marie Claire. Lauren Kern,…

ELLE has a new graphics guru on deck: Evan Campisi has been named design director, effective July 23rd. Campisi arrives at Hearst from the…

Gloria Baume, formerly fashion director at Teen Vogue, has left the publication. Naomi Nevitt, formerly online editorial director at Teen…

Gloria Baume, formerly fashion director at Teen Vogue, has left the publication. Naomi Nevitt, formerly online editorial director at Teen…

Chris Rovzar, formerly digital editor at Vanity Fair, has been named head of a new luxury vertical at Bloomberg.com…Joyce Chang, formerly executive editor at Cosmopolitan, has been named editor in chief at Self…Jake Silverstein, formerly editor in chief at Texas Monthly, has been named editor at The New York Times Magazine…

Following the abrupt departures of Cathy Horyn and Suzy Menkes, The New York Times is rebuilding their Styles section. Vanessa Friedman has been tapped as the publication’s fashion director and chief fashion critic, a position that was created to fill the gap left by Horyn and Menkes. She will resume her position next month after decamping from The Financial Times, where she has been the publication’s inaugural fashion editor since 2003. Before joining FT, she was the features and fashion director during the launch of InStyle UK and her work can be found in the pages of The Economist, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Entertainment Weekly. With her witty and concise reviews of the runway, it goes without saying that Friedman will inject a strong voice into her coverage.

Time Inc. vet Jess Cagle was named editor of People and editorial director of Entertainment Weekly last month, a job he was born to hold. The Daily stopped by his EW office on his last day there to find out what people who need people have in store from the zestiest man alive…BY EDDIE ROCHE

Since nothing is a (Victoria’s) secret these days, the newsroom isn’t too shocked that People has named Adam Levine as People mag’s “Sexiest Man Alive!”, knocking Valentino, Karl, and Matt Bomer out of the race until they contend again next year. Levine certainly isn’t a unanimous pick for the saucy cover score, but good looks tend to invite envy.

For the new publisher of the staggeringly weighty InStyle, the fashion beat is no strange territory to Karin Tracy. Neither is Time Inc. stardom, which came to her in the form of publisher titles at People StyleWatch and Entertainment Weekly, after a brief stint at InStyle as former publisher Connie Anne Phillips’ right hand. As for the pressure factor? She’s loving every minute.
BY ALEXANDRA ILYASHOV