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PaperCity couldn’t cut it in the ATL
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With the recent glut of glossy magazines all going after the same local advertising dollars, industry insiders have been devoting much cocktail party chatter of late to which high-end publication would disappear first.
On Friday, PaperCity publisher Jim Kastleman confirmed to Buzz that the Atlanta edition of his fashion and society monthly will cease publication here with its December issue.
“When we debuted in Atlanta two years ago, we were being looked at as being smart for branching out to Atlanta, but the media landscape has changed dramatically since,” Kastleman told us from Houston. “Now, everyone is just cannibalizing each other [for ad dollars].”
Two of those heavy-hitters, the Atlantan and Atlanta Peach, debuted this year with splashy parties. Consequently, magazine ad sales here have become a contact sport as older titles like Atlanta magazine and Jezebel fought back, dangling some tantalizing deals to advertisers.
There have been a few editorial dust-ups as well.
PaperCity editors Elizabeth Schultze Roth and Jonathan Lerner moved over to Atlanta Peach to help launch it and PaperCity account manager Erin Kelly was recently lured away as well. Before its debut, the Atlantan attracted Travis Neighbor Ward away from Atlanta magazine to serve as its inaugural editor.
Kastleman says PaperCity plans to withdrawal to its two core markets, Houston and Dallas, where they’ve dominated for the past decade.
The publisher, meanwhile, predicts that PaperCity won’t be the last new title to pull up stakes in the highly competitive Atlanta market either.
Says Kastleman: “One to two more titles will absolutely go away. There are only so many ad dollars out there.”
Emory says no, ‘Nerds’ derailed
If you served as an extra on the recent locally shot remake of “Revenge of the Nerds,” here’s hoping you snapped a few photos. Fox Atomic has halted production of the teen sex comedy. As the AJC previously reported, the film shot on the campus of Agnes Scott College and various other locations this fall. However, Emory University pulled out of its planned participation in the $12.5-million budgeted film. Director Kyle Newman was seeking another campus for the autumnal shoot. Since many of us spent Friday throwing elbows at each other in the pre-dawn hours at holiday shopping emporiums, Newman’s planned fall window may have closed. It could not immediately be determined Friday how the shutdown might effect “Nerds” thespian and “Laguna Beach” alum Kristin Cavallari’s career trajectory.
Fund-raisers on ‘Oprah’ Monday
Look for local sisters Kristy O’Conner and Kasey Osborne-Lumpp to turn back up on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” Monday (4 p.m. WSB). The results of last month’s “Pay It Forward Challenge” will be announced on the edition. You may recall that O’Conner, an Atlantan, and Osborne-Lumpp, a Grayson resident, were in the audience when Winfrey handed out $1,000 check cards and instructed the audience to go home and “pay it forward” to a charity. The sisters opted to give their seed money to My Sister’s House, a shelter run by the Atlanta Union Mission. Q100 listeners and Kroger customers then got involved to helped to push the donations of cash and shelter necessities to more than $125,000. The sisters will be among those to report their charitable efforts to Winfrey.
Stork report
It’s a boy!
Supermodel Heidi Klum and singer Seal are parents once again.
Klum gave birth Wednesday to Johan Riley Fyodor Taiwo Samuel, who weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces, according to Seal’s Web site. It did not say where the baby was born.
“He is healthy, beautiful and looks just like his mother,” the posting read.
The couple, married in May 2005, have a 1-year-old son, Henry Guenther Ademola Dashtu Samuel.
HIGH FIVE
Most downloaded singles Friday at iTunes (Atlantans Akon and T.I. are featured on three of the tracks).
1. “Irreplaceable,” Beyoncé
2. “I Wanna Love You,” Akon featuring Snoop Dogg
3. “Wind It Up,” Gwen Stefani
4. “My Love” (Single Version), Justin Timberlake featuring T.I.
5. “Smack That” (Dirty), Akon
Celebrity birthdays
Today: Actor Ricardo Montalban is 86. Actor-game show host Ben Stein is 62. Actor John Larroquette is 59. Singer Amy Grant is 46. Singer Stacy Lattisaw is 40. Actress Jill Hennessy (“Crossing Jordan”) is 37. Actress Christina Applegate is 35.
Sunday: Singer Robert Goulet is 73. Singer Tina Turner is 67. Bassist John McVie of Fleetwood Mac is 61. Country singer Joe Nichols is 30. Singer Lil Fizz of B2K is 21.
Contributing: News services.
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