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We had a tag team style of cover design, with Jennifer, Florian, Kate and I working on different potential cover stories simultaneously, and trading pages back and forth. One of my most memorable experiences was during the Bill Clinton era. The Monica Lewinsky scandal was big news and when the Starr Report came out, it, revealed the salacious details of the affair. The Voice decided to devote a whole feature package to the story. My editor told us he wanted "fellatio art." Hmmm. I pondered that assignment and came up with an idea. Instead of taking the obvious path, I took the high road and called David O'Keefe, one of the best 3-D caricaturists around, and asked him to illustrate our cover. My concept was this: I wanted him to create a portrait of Clinton made entire of an assemblage of women's breasts and buttocks. But when Dave declined my commission-he and his wife were big fans of Clinton-we came up with a compromise. I asked him to sketch out his ideas, but insisted that somehow or other, Clinton's portrait would have to include a quantity of flesh. A few days later, Dave turned in a masterpiece made out of clay. The bikini tan lines in Dave's piece, which he called "Clinton in the Flesh," were the icing on the cake.On Tuesday morning, Peter Barbey, owner of the Village Voice, assembled the staff of the storied but turbulent New York City alt-weekly for a meeting. The village returns very village voicey crack#."Under its new CEO, New York Magazine is branching out into more “voice-y news products”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Under its new CEO, New York Magazine is branching out into more “voice-y news products”. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 6 Jan. That was about bringing more service content and creating a home for the product curation that we were already doing organically across our verticals, developing a destination for that kind of content. The Strategist was a little bit different. So we came back two months later and formally launched it as a full-fledged site. That content did seem to connect in a pretty compelling way. Initially, we did it as a popup blog under a different name that was a sponsored thing, and that gave us a chance to experiment a little bit and see what specifically in that content area was really resonating with our audience. There’s also an endemic advertiser base there, which is not everything but is a consideration. Technology and the intersection of technology and culture, the subject matter of Select All, has been an area of interest for a long time, and technology had felt like a bit of a hole for us. Wasserstein: This year we launched Select All and The Strategist. We did an Ask The Strategist thing, where The Strategist can solve your local shopping needs. We have a private Instagram account for members. We’re trying to think about how we can provide unique value in creative ways, adding little nuggets of value. Part of the value proposition is that there is a sense of community to it, so we want to be careful about scaling it too quickly. We’re going to keep it pretty small and intimate, at least for a few months, to make sure we’re getting the programming mix right, and then probably market it more broadly. We initially promoted it just to friends and family and some percentage of email newsletter subscribers, to start building up a test group. It very, very soft-launched in mid-November, and it only got a homepage and some on-site promotion. It’s oriented toward unique experiences - either ones that we are creating ourselves or, often, ones that we’re curating and arranging for special access for members. Wasserstein: It’s an effort to serve, primarily, our New York City-based audience that turns to New York for discovery of what’s new, what’s next, what’s cool, what’s insider-y in the experience of living here.