If there’s one magazine you should pick up this week, it isn’t Men’s Vogue. Not that Jay Fielden’s creation isn’t worthy of your newsstand patronage, but, well, you should’ve bought it last week. This week is all about New York, which hits magazine racks touting its “Salary Guide” cover story.
Hundreds of salaries – supposedly accurate! – of New York’s industry players are revealed, from the movie and film biz to media and (gasp) bloggers and (double gasp) porn moguls.
Rather than scroll through the whole list, we’ve put together the most satisfying comparisons for your cable news media-sized attention span.
• Brian Williams, Anchor, NBC Nightly News ($4 million) vs. Anderson Cooper, Host, Anderson Cooper 360 ($2 million) vs. Pat Kiernan, Anchor, NY1 ($200,000)
• Roger Ailes, Chairman, Fox News Channel ($7.1 million) vs. Andrew Heyward, President, CBS News ($1.5 million)
• Jake Gyllenhaal, Actor, Jarhead ($3 million) vs. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Actress, upcoming untitled Oliver Stone 9/11 film ($500,000)
• 50 Cent, Rapper, hyphenate ($50 million) vs. George M., Street musician, Astor Place subway station ($16,800)
• Martha Stewart, TV Star ($9.6 million) vs. Susan Lyne, CEO and president, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia ($4,714,469)
• Richard Johnson, ???????Page Six??????? gossip columnist ($300,000) vs. Jim Romenesko, Blogger, the Poynter Institute ($169,187) vs. Jessica Coen, Blogger, Gawker.com ($30,000)
• Bonnie Fuller, Editorial director, American Media ($1,574,851) vs. Janice Min, Editor, Us Weekly ($1.2 million)
• Russell Simmons, Founder, Phat Farm (from the sale of Phat Farm alone) ($119 million) vs. Kimora Lee Simmons, Creative director, Baby Phat ($17 million)
And just when you thought listicles were going out of industry fashion.