Arthur Hochstein was the art director of Time magazine for 15 years, through the end of 2009. During his time there he designed over 1000 covers, including some of the most memorable magazine images of recent years. His iconic cover designs include everything from OJ Simpson, 9/11, the War in Iraq, George Bush, and Barack Obama. And although the covers of Time included some of the best illustrators and photographers in the world, many of the covers were photo-illustrated by Hochstein himself, who created numerous humorous and pointed images.

Dylan Stableford of The Wrap’s Media Alley blog looked around on Twitter to find out which national magazines had the most Twitter followers. After analyzing his findings, Stableford was surprised to find that “the biggest magazines in terms of print circulation have a shockingly puny presence on Twitter.” For example, Good Housekeeping (4.4 million circulation, 4,683 followers) didn’t break the Top 25. Neither did AARP The Magazine (24 million circ., 358 followers), which, really, should shock nobody. Meanwhile, Time (3.4 million circ., 2.2 million followers) and the embattled Newsweek (1.9 million circ., 1.2 million followers) both placed in the top ten.

Have you ever wanted to know how to beat someone up? Or, have you ever been flipping Time and wanted to see the reporter your reading beat up one of the other reporters with a roll of tape? If you answered yes to either of those questions, then I have just the video for you. In it, comedian and actor Judah Friedlander shows Time’s Josh Sanburn, Nate Jones, and Claire Suddath how they can take each other out in an office setting.

Fareed Zakaria warns in Newsweek that Al-Qaeda was significantly more incompetent that Americans believed in the aftermath of 9/11, and the result is a “national-security state” that threatens civil liberties. Any other time of year, comments like this would be controversial at best, especially from the mild-mannered Zakaria. So close to the anniversary of the most painful event in recent American history, it borders on the callous.

After ten years with the magazine, Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria will be leaving at the end of September to join Time as Editor at Large. Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel announced today that he is “thrilled that Fareed is joining us; his singular voice in explaining the world to people is a natural fit with our editorial mission at a moment when Time is more relevant and wide-reaching than it’s ever been.”

In Katie Couric’s web series, @KatieCouric, the CBS anchor today interviewed TIME magazine Managing Editor Rick Stengel about his decision to run the controversial photo of a woman brutalized by the Taliban on its cover, with the headline “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan.”

President Obama may have solved his McChrystal problem but the long tail of the now-infamous Rolling Stone profile is still kicking around the media world. In his column today at the New York Times, David Carr takes Politico and Time to the woodshed for posting a full PDF of the McChrystal story before Rolling Stone made it available on their site.

In celebration of Gay Pride Month and in honor of this important anniversary, Mediaite contributor Robert Newman arranged a series of magazine covers – each “featuring an artist, personality, historical event, or publication of significance in gay history” – and released one per day throughout the month of June on his Newmanology facebook page. Here are some of the highlights from the collection:

One unexpectedly victorious campaign for unemployed South Carolina Democratic Senate nominee Alvin Greene just doesn’t seem like enough these days. In the midst of a confusing run against established GOP incumbent Jim DeMint, Greene dished to Time magazine on his polished campaign platform and his plan to defeat DeMint in an upcoming debate, but requested a few things in return: namely, cash and the magazine’s “Person of the Year” award.

The world of traditional media has overturned in the past decade – and few have ridden the crest of this wave more savvily than Michael Kinsley. As a pundit on CNN’s “Crossfire,” editing Slate, experimenting with the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, and now at The Atlantic, Kinsley’s philosophy has been an open desire to speak truth to power, and to bend the boundaries of where and how the media engages with its audience. Philip Bump examines the arc of Kinsley’s career, and just how ahead of the curve that arc has been.

It was already bad timing for Texas Governor Rick Perry to star in a Time feature on his administration’s war against environmental regulations yesterday, the 48th day since BP’s Deepwater Horizon platform exploded. The story, which highlights his opposition to federal regulation of energy companies, coincided not just with that disaster– which is a major player in the feature itself. Adding insult to injury, the article coincided with a natural gas explosion that left one dead in the northern part of his state.

Is Glenn Beck’s time in the media klieg lights coming to a close? The latest Nielsen numbers reveal that Beck’s audience is down nearly 30% since the start of the year. But why the drop (if, indeed, there even is one)? Is the country growing bored of chalkboards, or is the larger issue that the nation is merely out-Becking Glenn Beck?

In honor of Earth Day’s upcoming 40th anniversary, we’ve collected 20 of the greatest Earth Day and environmental action magazine covers, from 1970-present. Check out more after the jump. More info on Earth Day can be found here. This story was co-produced by Linda Rubes.

Who: Brian Williams, interviewed by Jeff Greenfield
What: “In the News with Jeff Greenfield – Brian Williams”
Where: 92^nd St. Y
When: April 18, 2010
Thumbs: Up

Sometimes you really have to wonder whether the magazine world deserves the fate that is being dealt to them. After a year of plummeting ad sales and deep cutbacks that saw the shuttering of many a beloved title many magazine, aficionados greeted news of the iPad as the savior to their many problems. And perhaps it still might be, though likely not like this.

As Frank Rich noted in his Sunday column this week a whole lot of people suffer from the habit of comparing President Obama to past political heavy-weights. Or not. At least according to New Yorker editor David Remnick today on Meet the Press, who noted that Obama “does not have the talents” of Ronald Reagan.

The nominees for the 2010 Time 100 are here, just a fourth of the way into the year, chronicling the most influential people in the world. If you’re a glass-half-full kind of person, it tells a tale of unprecedented social mobility in the current pop culture landscape. For the other 90% of us: Snooki?!

April 4 is Major League Baseball’s opening day, with the World Champion New York Yankees playing the always dangerous Boston Red Sox at 8p in Fenway Park. The New York Mets open the following day, with a home game against the Florida Marlins. We’ve dug deep into our archives to present some great baseball magazine covers to celebrate the start of the season. See more after the jump, and view the full list here.

Is there anyone who hasn’t profiled Andrew Breitbart in the last few months? Yowzer. What is there left to say (other than the computer in the bathtub trick is always tempting but generally ends badly)? Instead let’s listen to one side of Andrew Breitbart’s phone conversation with Ann Coulter, as recorded by Time.

I think this may be Glenn Beck’s version of backpedaling. Nearly ten days after Time posted an article titled “Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus?” — which itself followed a New York Times piece about certain church leaders encouraging their followers to stop watching Beck — Beck has addressed the issue. Sort of.

Can it be possible that when it comes to bitter partisan divide we haven’t seen anything yet? Last summer’s Tea Party/Town Halls appeared to take much of Washington, and the media, by surprise (and by storm). But with this November’s midterms already looming large on the political horizon, look no further than the anti-health care ads sweeping the country for a preview of what’s to come.

It’s okay if you forgot to spring forward this morning and accidentally slept in an extra hour. It’s Sunday, what are you, a farmer/television morning talk show host/weekend blogger? But in case you’re still wondering why you have to go through this b.s. twice a year, here’s Rachel Maddow to break it down for you.

Time‘s Mark Halperin has finally raised his head from the extended Game Change tour to weigh in on the current state of President Obama. In a four point summary published Sunday, Halperin lists four ways in which Obama is repeating the mistakes of George W. Bush. Andrew Sullivan is having none of it. And I mean NONE.

This is sort of strange. Time‘s national political correspondent Karen Tumulty reports that when she attended President Obama’s health care rally in Pennsylvania earlier today she was not allowed to talk to the public.

The internet has made definitive revolutionary changes in the way Americans consume their media and interact with their federal government– not exactly a shocking statement. But Michael Scherer at Time Magazine is now proposing that the most tech-savvy government in history is being hurt by its inability to control the flow of information (and misinformation) online.