W, Condé’s upscale fashion magazine is about to get a revamp. Not so much in style and content, but more along the lines of staff. For a while now, W has been straddling Condé Nast and Farichild. The publishing side reported to Condé, while the editorial side reported to Fairchild. With Patrick McCarthy, chairman of [...]
The numbers are small, but growing, of people willing to pay $2.99 for an iPhone-app-version of an issue of GQ magazine. “Condé Nast President-CEO Charles Townsend has said that the app platform it has developed is mainly a way to get in position to play on tablets.” Advertising Age Jan. 21, 2010
While Condé Nast’s Portfolio, the glossy, covered big business and its celebrity elite, the new Portfolio.com provides service journalism for small business owners. The site now features content from some 40 local, weekly business journals and websites of American City Business Journals — itself a unit of Advance Publications. The New York Times Dec. 7, [...]
The publisher reported a year-over-year decline of 8,359 pages, roughly one third, according to estimates it released Wednesday. The New York Times Nov. 11, 2009
China is already a top-5 international market for Condé Nast, but Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Condé Nast International Ltd., on Saturday said, “We would very much like to produce new magazines [there].” The Wall Street Journal Nov. 9, 2009 Paid subscription may be required.
At a party celebrating her new TV show, Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth, the former editor of Gourmet magazine, Ruth Reichl, expressed grave concern about the future of magazines, “as we know them.” The New York Observer Oct. 16, 2009
A New York Times review of the new TV show, which airs on PBS television stations, is [...]
Among the fond recollections is this bit of high praise from Manhattan baker Jim Lahey, “Gourmet was the New Yorker of food magazines…” The New York Times Oct. 7, 2009 The Wall Street Journal Oct. 6, 2009 Paid subscription may be required.
One chef said that the magazine’s closure is an indication of just how severe the financial crisis is for food and restaurant companies. The Wall Street Journal Oct. 6, 2009
Although the number of fashion industry jobs is on the decline — NPD group expects 12% of fashion companies won’t make it through the recession — young people are still eager to join the ranks. Thank the industry’s outsized place in popular culture for the mismatch. So, taking a page from the “Give the (Young) [...]