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The housing meltdown and stubborn recession have taken too-big a toll on Domino, Condé Nast’s shopping and home décor magazine Domino.

According to report in The New York Times, Condé Nast will reduce the annual frequency of Portfolio from 12- to 10-times and Men’s Vogue from 10- to 2-times, as part of a new, cost-savings plan.  The publisher has reportedly reduced budgets by five percent, across the organization.  The New York Times  (Oct. 30, 2008)

Lucky magazine’s fifth annual “Lucky Shops” shop-a-thon event is scheduled to take place Nov. 7th and 8th, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street in New York City, and will feature designer merchandise on sale at up to 70% off retail price.  A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Robin Hood Foundation, which [...]

Condé Nast moved its annual publishers’ meeting from a south Florida resort to an as-yet unannounced location in New York City (beleived to be its headquarters at 4 Times Square).  Meanwhile, Hearst Magazines has reportedly decided to forgo its annual Holiday party this year.  WWD Media October 20, 2008

Somebody let the cat out of the bag for Conde Nast’s Vanity Fair.  The magazine supposedly had the scoop on Lance Armstrong’s professional return to cycling, but couldn’t keep the juicy secret under wraps.  Somehow, cycling magazine VeloNews ran the story on Monday.  In response to the leak, Vanity Fair quickly posted the interview online [...]

A sixteen-page spread in August’s Indian edition of Vogue featured luxury goods modeled by seemingly poor Indians, creating a juxtaposition some observers deemed offensive.  Editor Priya Tanna said, “You have to remember with fashion, you can’t take it that seriously … We weren’t trying to make a political statement or save the world.”  The New York [...]

Condé Nast is partnering with Google on the search engine giant’s new, Wikipedia-like encyclopedia, called Knol.  The publisher will allow writers of articles — or Knols — to include New Yorker cartoon without charge.  Google’s Knol encyclopedia differs from Wikipedia in at least two respects; it highlights the names of contributors and enables them to [...]

Lengthy piece in the Sunday NYT about whether Condé Nast’s highly successful — if at times quirky — business practices will serve it well in the years ahead.  The publisher seems less perturbed than its competitors about the changes that might loom in an increasingly digital future, but just how much longer can the market [...]

Condé Nast Publications has announced plans to close Golf for Women magazine, amid changing media habits and a shrinking economy. In a statement on Monday, Chief Executive Charles H. Townsend said the company planned to close the bimonthly magazine, because it “will not support our long term business objectives.” The wall Street Journal [...]

LOUD3R, a network of 25 websites that aggregate enthusiast online content, has bought 500 domain names and plans on creating 10 new sites a month until all 500 are up and running. The network is similar to that of Inform Technologies which is used by Conde Nast and is based on an internally-built semantic publishing [...]