Bee’s New Venture0 comments

Rumors are swirling and heads are being scratched on this one.  Bee Shaffer, daughter of publishing’s Queen..err..Bee, Anna Wintour, has taken a job at a dot com.  That’s right.  The recent Columbia grad has landed a position at CollegeHumor.com.

According to the New York Post, Bee apparently went through 24 interviews without finding a place to work.  Well that’s not good news for the rest of us.  What this means:

1.  Print really is dying. If nepotism has gone out the window along with the ad sales, then there is no hope for magazine jobs for anyone.  Or it means that her mother wouldn’t dare subject her daughter to working at a magazine with a quarter of the usual staff and no car service.

2.  Dot coms are the new glamour jobs. How did the web go from being run by geeks in Silicon Valley to glamour girls?

3.  Anyone else see the irony in this story? A very smart and well connected recent College graduate has no luck finding a job even when your mom practically runs New York thus leading you to a job at a place called CollegeHumor?  Not very humorous, I say.

Bee is set to work as the assistant to Co-Creator Ricky Van Veen and is said to be very eager to do the “grunt work”.  Bon Chance, Bee!

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Lindsey Calla is a fashion writer living in NYC.  Read more from Lindsey at her blog, Saucy Glossie

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