Magazine world view: RD revamp; Atlantic digitizes; 40k paper jobs gone;Grazia staff fatten up

• A Reader's Digest that Grandma never dreamed of (New York Times)
• Giant U.S. digital newsstand gets name: Next Issue Media (Industry in Progress blog) 
• The Atlantic readies launch of digital business brand  (btob online) 
• British publisher to launch Independent Magazine Publisher in early 2010 (minonline)
• Custom content has best year ever (minoline) 
• US loses 40,000 newspaper jobs in 2009 (Jon Slattery) 
• Why many magazine retailers don’t care about Christmas (magnation blog) 
• 25 reasons editors don’t get back to writers faster (WordCount: Freelancing in the digital age) 
• Smithsonian to publish ‘cultural’ travel issue (Folio:) 
• Grazia staffers in a froth | Media Monkey (Guardian) 
• BBC Worldwide head supports Murdoch’s paywall plan (Press Gazette) 
• What ethnic media can teach us about the future of news (Utne media blog)