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Five Questions for: Todd Weinberger, Art Director

Ever looked at a magazine's masthead and wondered just what do all those job titles actually mean? What does a photo producer actually do? Does a deputy art director get a shiny badge? And why are some people creative directors and others design directors?  Read on to find out what being an Art Director is like for Todd Weinberger. 

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NY Freelancers and Studios: A Tax Alert

This note is for SPD members who live and work in New York City and the surrounding Counties:

A new MTA Tax applies to self-employed individuals and freelancers, and the first payment is due to New York State by Monday, November 2nd, 2009. We're hearing that many freelancers and independent studios haven't yet heard about this new tax, and in order to try to save any of us the pain of penalty from the IRS, we asked our SPD bookkeeper to share some advice while he was setting us straight ourselves: … MORE

9021-d'oh!

A tasty little morsel on this Friday.

Shannen Doherty Takes Second Job As Magazine Art Director.

My favorite part: "What's next? Brian Austen Green working the lunch shift at Olive Garden?"

Making the Move

I must be a lunatic. In the most tumultuous, cost-cutting, sky-is-falling era in our industry, I left my comfortable and salaried job at The Boston Globe Magazine and put myself on the chopping block in NYC. If I was going to become a better designer and start climbing that ladder, it would have to be in New York, and it would have to be now.

So armed with the phone numbers of a few contacts that I'd met over the years, I packed my U-Haul and said goodbye to my job of 7 years and all of my beloved colleagues (not to mention a big 2 bedroom condo--with a yard!).

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Second Act

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Recession Special

We're all in need of some help these days.
Jobs, and magazines, are disappearing, and it's time to get serious about redefining what magazine people do. We'll all be better off if we're the ones in charge of our own destinies, and we're ready to get serious about it.

We've gotten a lot of questions at SPD HR about, as one of our favorite people wrote, "what to do when your magazine goes up in flames" -- and we're on it. We're collecting answers, we're finding people who know far better than us, and we're compiling resources & advice we plan to start posting next week.

But we want to know: what do YOU need right now? No question is too big or small, and no idea will be too crazy. Let us know in the comments, or shoot an e-mail to tips@spd.org.

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