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Publishers Forming 'Magazine iTunes'

Jane Yager — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:36:20 CST

The latest bid to save magazine publishing may soon have readers browsing the online racks of an iTunes-style newsstand. Major magazine publishers including Time Inc. and Conde Nast hope to exert some control over digital readership with a joint venture enabling readers to buy copies of the New Yorker, Sports...

San Fran Is Best US Vacation Destination

Harry Kimball — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:00:35 CDT

San Francisco has topped this year’s Conde Nast Traveler list of American cities to visit. The city by the bay edged out Charleston , SC , at No. 2. Metropolises New York and Chicago made a strong showing as well, at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively. The list is based on a...

Shuttering Mags, Conde Nast Turns to ... Online Dating?

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:37:00 CDT

OK, so Gourmet wasn't working out, seven staffers at Glamour were just given the boot, and the remaining mags in Conde Nast's stable are slashing up to 25% of their budgets. But obviously the time is ripe for Conde Nast to launch…an online dating site, the New York Daily News...

Gone With Gourmet : a Taste for Expertise

Harry Kimball — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:02:35 CDT

When Gourmet magazine absorbed his Cook’s in 1990, Christopher Kimball discovered the hard way that the publishing business is “a top-down, winner-take-all proposition, an oligarchy of sorts.” But the frazzling encounter also afforded him a meeting with Conde Nast chairman Si Newshouse, who “poured his fortune into his magazine properties...

How to Keep Gourmet Alive

Kate Schwartz — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:51:37 CDT

Cookie and Modern Bride are getting the ax, but it's Conde Nast's shuttering of Gourmet that has floored and disappointed readers and non-readers alike. That includes Fast Company's Kate Rockwood, who shares a few ideas for keeping America's oldest food magazine alive—in some form. Move to television: One show...

Condé Nast Axing Gourmet , 3 Other Titles

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:45:33 CDT

Condé Nast will shut down iconic foodie magazine Gourmet as well as newer title Cookie and Brides offshoots Modern Bride and Elegant Bride , CEO Charles Townsend announced today. Hundreds of jobs will be lost in the company’s biggest single day of closings, the New York Post reports. The publishing powerhouse,...

GQ Buries Story on 'Putin's Dark Rise to Power'

Harry Kimball — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:54:13 CDT

GQ is keeping a tight lid on one of its own articles that questions the Russian government’s involvement in the 1999 bombings that catapulted Vladimir Putin to power, NPR reports. GQ owner Condé Nast operates in Russia, where dissent is often met with crippling “audits.” So management decided the issue...

Condé Nast Shutters Portfolio

Kevin Spak — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:25:00 CDT

Condé Nast’s once-ballyhooed Portfolio magazine will cease publishing immediately, staffers were told this morning. “The five main categories of advertising a publication like ours depends on are really in trouble,” Condé Nast’s group president told the New York Times . The magazine launched in April 2007, and has witnessed a historic...

Portfolio Misses Another Historic Cover

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:20:31 CDT

The bad cover decisions at Portfolio just keep on coming, writes Ryan Tate in his continuing persecution of the mag on Gawker. Sure, “diva editor” Joanne Lipman has made some poor choices of what to feature instead of the current economic crisis—a clothier, Sarah Palin. But her worst decision...