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MySpace Cuts, Twitter Protests, Changes at MTV
cityfile · 06/16/09 11:45AM• It's an ugly day at MySpace. The News Corp.-owned social network is slashing nearly 30 percent of its staff, or 400 people, due to a decline in sales. [BN, PC]
• Protesters in Iran have been using Twitter to keep up with developments on the ground. Now the State Department is stepping in and asking the company to put off a planned upgrade so service isn't disrupted. [Reuters]
• MTV entertainment president Brian Graden is departing the network. [NYP]
• It's official: NBC is dumping Live at Five and replacing it with an hour-long "daily information, lifestyle and entertainment show." [NYO]
• Interview dropped editorial director Glenn O'Brien last week. Now the magazine's parent company, Brant Publications, is suing him for allegedly breaking the terms of his confidentiality agreement. [WWD]
These Things Happen
Hamilton Nolan · 06/15/09 04:06PMChaos at Brant Publications
Hamilton Nolan · 06/11/09 12:41PMPeter Brant Comes Undone
cityfile · 06/10/09 03:30PMPolo-playing paper tycoon Peter Brant has had plenty of drama on his plate in recent weeks. His divorce from Stephanie Seymour has only been getting messier by the day. (Last week, the ex-supermodel got into a shoving match with one of Brant's bodyguards at the couple's Greenwich estate; over the weekend, she was issued a summons after another run-in with Brant's staff.) But that isn't the only crisis unfolding in the house of Brant. The convicted felon—Brant served 84 days in prison in 1990 after pleading guilty to tax fraud—is now watching Interview, the art/fashion mag founded by Andy Warhol and which Brant has controlled since the late 1980s, crumble to pieces. And it's all happened under the not-very-watchful eye of the man that Brant appointed to oversee his collection of magazines—his equally scandal-plagued son, Ryan Brant.
Nasty Divorce Heralds Interview Publisher's Latest Mid-Life Crisis
Ryan Tate · 05/07/09 06:14AMMagazine Owner Seeks 17 Unpaid Interns After Buying $50 Million Jet
Ryan Tate · 03/11/09 07:17PMInterview Owner Picks Opulent Jet Over Staff
Ryan Tate · 02/06/09 06:57AMFabien Baron Starting Own Magazine After Leaving Interview?
Ryan Tate · 01/29/09 08:49PMWould Andy Warhol Have Satisfied His Magazine's New Dress Code?
Ryan Tate · 04/24/08 08:06PMPictured at left is Andy Warhol with muse Edie Sedgwick in her "notorious... uniform" of black tights and loose-fitting shirt. That outfit is now unwelcome at the magazine Warhol co-founded, Interview, operated alongside two other titles by Brant Publications. A recent memo to Brant staff, occasioned doubt by Gotham's recent burst of warm weather, scolded that shorts had to be above the knee, "of the type that would be acceptable on a golf course," while "tights are not permitted at any time as a substitute for pants." Full dress code letter after the jump.